Heart Like a Dog

The Good, the Bad, and the Oh My God of living with dogs!

Day Eighty Three – Through a Dog's Eyes

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I’m reading a book called, “Through a Dog’s Eyes” by Jennifer Arnold, who is the founder of Canine Assistants, an organization that trains dogs (humanely) for people with disabilities.  I was hoping to be able to report to you what a wonderful book it is and how much I learned about training my dogs; except I haven’t finished the book yet, so I can only attest that so far it is a good book.

What I did find is a link to a website where you can assess your dog’s personality!  I did the test for both Sampson and Delilah, but I’m not sharing that information just yet; because I want Chet to do the test with me as he and I may see the dog’s differently.  

The current chapter I am on is talking about stress factors for your dogs and I am trying to figure out if Delilah is stressed or bored.  Right now I am leaning towards bored because we are cooped up because of the weather. 🙁  Tonight when I got back from bringing Liam home, we found a chewed up measuring cup.  Oh Delilah!

Day Eighty One – When helping's a hinderance.

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The phone rang at 5:30 this morning; which is never a good thing but since today is Saturday…well you know it’s bad!  It was my daughter asking if I could come over and watch my grandson because the baby was coughing and having trouble breathing and they wanted to take her to the hospital.  As any mother/grandmother would I threw some clothes and a toothbrush in a bag,  shot off some instructions to Chet about the dogs and feeding, and was out the door (in my pajamas) in less than 5 minutes. 

Liam was up by the time I got there, so I decided to pack him up and bring him home since I have my normal Saturday chores that need to be attended to.  As we are driving home, I called Chet just to let him know I was on my way and he said he had let the dogs out and fed them breakfast and was on his way to work.  (Gotta love that overtime!)

My first sign

My first sign that something was amiss should have been when Delilah greeted me at the door with the packaging material from their raw food, which I know I placed in the trash last night, but did I catch that?  No.  Instead I came through the door, dropped my stuff off and went to tend the fire, that’s when Liam spoke up and said, “Mimi, it’s dirty.”  Then I looked.  There were coffee grounds all over the living room rug, I’m sure I don’t need to tell you but coffee is one of the items that humans can ingest; that dogs shouldn’t.  Coffee in large quantities can be deadly for your dog and I can’t imagine the grounds would be good either!

The delinquent with her prize.

and over here….is the top to the ice cream package torn apart.

The top of the ice cream box.

 

I got it cleaned up and oh look….over there it’s the bottom portion of the ice cream package.

Apparently Delilah likes the same ice cream I do!

A shredded dryer sheet over here, shredded plastic in the bedroom.  God only knows what else and where else. 

Thankfully the snow is melting so I only have to worry about her inside now.

Day Eighty – What do you think?

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I gave myself a challenge beginning in December and that was to write in my blog everyday (hence the Day…at the beginning of each post.) My dilemma now becomes what to write about.  Since going to the Pet Writing Conference last weekend I decided that I would like to focus on writing about dogs;  and since I really love writing about my own it seems the logical choice.   I wonder though if writing about them every day is too much. 

There is a blog on Animal Planet called  Daily Treat that has been funny every time I checked it out.  The thing is though, that I don’t know if I have the material to write about the two dogs everyday and make the blog worth reading.  

So I want to throw this out to you; I am not excusing myself from my challenge, I still intend on writing everyday, I was just wondering what you thought about me taking this blog and making it a weekly or bi-weekly blog; on the off days I will use my Auntie Jodi’s Thoughts to keep myself in writing frame.

My goal here is to produce a great blog with great content and not bore you to tears.

What say you?

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