Heart Like a Dog

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

Follow-Up Friday

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For those new to the blog, my follow-up Friday provides me with an opportunity to update or revise a post from the previous week.

You know sometimes you post about something and you need an update but it doesn’t warrant a whole blog.  Or sometimes someone made a comment that really resonated with you.  Yup, Follow-Up Friday baby!

I think I need to design a badge to match the blog. 🙂

Lick Granuloma – Update:

Many thanks to 2 Brown Dawgs for the suggestion of EMT Gel, if you’ve never heard of this, it’s a natural collagen that seals off the wound and helps promote healing.

Hubby went off to Cabela’s Wednesday night and brought a tube home, I will post a picture in next Friday’s post so you can all see how it’s working.

I did see a review on Amazon where it said that the EMT gel caused burning, but I’d like to say that Sampson never showed any signs of discomfort whatsoever.

Heart Like A Dog – Author’s Note:

Moving the blog has been challenging, just ask any one of the ladies I mentioned in the original post.  I think I may have jumped the gun on the redirect from the free WP.  Since I’ve never done a redirect before I wasn’t exactly sure how it would work. I think some of my readers may have been confused, so I’m thinking of suspending the redirect at least for a bit and putting a link on the free WP Blog letting people know how to find me.

My subscribers went from 111 to 9. 🙁  So I would ask you, if you are a reader, please subscribe.  Or at least update your e-readers to reflect Heart Like A Dog.

Additionally, there was a problem with the title not showing up in my google reader, but I think I have that straightened out now.

Please let me know in the comments if there is anything I need to work on.

A Plea To Rescue Groups – Author’s Note:

What a great conversation this post started!  I’m still behind trying to respond to all the comments.

I really do understand why they have such stringent policies, but I think in some instances they are shooting themselves in the foot.  They will not adopt out a puppy, so the person turns to a breeder.  Not all breeders are bad, but sadly a lot of people don’t know the questions to ask.

II think the key to the whole situation is having a conversation with the prospective adopter to get a feel for what they were willing to do.

In my case, I felt so bad that Sampson was in a crate during the day, that I slept on the couch until midnight or 1:00 am, just so he didn’t have to go back in his crate.  Hubby got up at 3:30 am and took him out, then he would come to bed with me for a snuggle.

I was very relieved when he got the potty training, then he got the freedom of the kitchen and slowly earned other areas.

There was no place on the adoption application for that. 🙂

Have a safe and happy Labor Day weekend.

Follow-Up Friday

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For those new to the blog, my follow-up Friday provides me with an opportunity to update or revise a post from the previous week.

You know sometimes you post about something and you need an update but it doesn’t warrant a whole blog.  Or sometimes someone made a comment that really resonated with you.  Yup, Follow-Up Friday baby!

Clueless – Author’s Note:

Most of you commented that you wouldn’t have a problem walking with me, that made me feel better.  The reason you’d walk with me is because you all understand the importance of having a well-behaved dog.

I like my dogs to be ambassador’s of the dog world and not a reason for people to ban them.  I believe you all feel the same way about your dogs.  Unfortunately most of the dog people I’ve encountered in my little corner of the world apparently think they are entitled to let their dogs run willy-nilly.

Besides you are my friends, at least until you meet me in person. 🙂

Would You Pay? – Author’s Note

Oh my dog ya’ll, did you think I was trying to raise funds for a dog park?

I don’t have the time or energy for that!

I was thinking of what my idea of a perfect dog park would be, and I thought I’d pay to have something that I wanted.  I just thought I’d throw it out to you.

Although I did take Julie’s advice and submitted the idea to the Beneful Dream park.  What the heck, I didn’t have anything to lose. 🙂

WTF/Whoo Hoo Wednesday – Author’s Note

In my WTF/Whoo Hoo Wednesday post, Al commented on the picture of Sampson and Delilah.

“They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If ever a picture depicted the two different personalities of Delilah and Sampson, that one does.”

I’ve said it before, these dogs are polar opposites, they are literally like night and day in every way, except for two.

They are both very loving and both very, very easy to love.

That about wraps up my week, how was yours?  Anything exciting planned for the weekend?

Follow-Up Friday

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For those new to the blog, my follow-up Friday provides me with an opportunity to update or revise a post from the previous week.

You know sometimes you post about something and you need an update but it doesn’t warrant a whole blog.  Or sometimes someone made a comment that really resonated with you.  Yup, Follow-Up Friday baby!

Please feel free to grab the badge and join me in recapping or wrapping up your week.   It doesn’t matter if you do it every week or just once in  a while.

This week’s posts have been largely focused on training.  If you have a dog you understand some part of your life will always include training.

I’d like anyone who’s struggling with a challenging dog to know that there is hope.

Don’t give up, check out new trainers, new sports, new groups.  Find something that works for both you and your dog.

Practice Makes Perfect –  Update:

On yesterday’s walk I took Delilah off-leash again.  As soon as I took her off, I called her back.  Anytime she got too far ahead of me, I called her back.  Most of the time she kept coming back to me on her own, or kept looking back at me, as if she wanted my approval.

I gave it to her, along with lots of treats.

Again I kept her off-leash time to a limit, then back on leash she went.

It is the small successes that add up.

Passive Aggressive – Author’s Note

I think I could write another full post on this particular topic.  There is so much I want to say, about the way people around me train and take care of their dogs.  Look for me to come back to this topic at a future date.

WTF/Whoo Hoo Wednesday – Update

Pamela was kind enough to point out that I missed a great big Whoo Hoo.  And that would be to the eight strangers who banded together to get the GDS, Misty down from the mountain.

That was my bad.  I was trying to shorten my post and get it published in a timely fashion.  And truthfully, sometimes the WTF really brings me down.

My friend at 2 Brown Dawgs blog mentioned in the comments that she read the entire thread regarding Misty’s rescue.

I didn’t.

Apparently the dog’s plight was posted on the message board and a group of people got together and went in and rescued Misty.

Then her owner came forward.

Which once again is a topic for an entire post, but only after I read the entire thread. 🙂

That’s it for me, hope you have a great weekend!

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