Follow-Up Friday

June 29, 2012 By Jodi

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!

Be The Dog – Author’s Note

I think this started with Lena West’s “You can do it now or NOW.” I sat down to write a witty blog post about how Lena had motivated me and boom! There it was, “Be The Dog.”

I love it. Be The Dog.

I could see the tee-shirts, bumper stickers, speaking engagements (why not, it’s my fantasy.) 🙂

Then I checked the trademark office and the saying is trademarked.

Boo. Hiss.

I’m still working out the kinks on this one, so hold tight.

No-One Calls My Dog A Behemoth! – Author’s Note

I should have been clear in the post. Delilah came to us from a rescue. The vet who originally examined her said she was spayed. The rescue took the vet’s word because….well you should trust your vet.

As soon as I realized she was in heat, I contacted the rescue. Originally they agreed to pay $125.00 which is the normal fee they paid their vets for spaying.

Delilah’s spaying was $325.00. They told me it was so high because she was a big dog, had already had a litter of puppies and she still had a lot of the pregnancy fat that they had to go through to spay her.

Delilah’s adoption fee was $375.00 and here we were three months later shelling out another $325.00 making her a $700.00 dog. So much for rescuing I thought.

But the rescue ponied up the entire $325.00. The vet’s office faxed over the bill and we had a check in hand within a matter of days.

I was not upset with the rescue, they received the wrong information and they made it right. You can’t ask for much more than that.

As for that vet from hell, well a short time later I received a notice that the owner had sold the practice and it was under new ownership. By this time I already had my new vet who I love.

Just like the previous owner, I left that practice and never looked back.

My blog was pretty focused on “Just Be The Dog” this past week, so that’s it for my Follow-Up Friday. 🙂

Have an awesome weekend.

Follow-Up Friday

June 22, 2012 By Jodi

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.

Hot Car = Dead Dog – Author’s Note

Your comments gave me so very many ideas, I just don’t know where to begin.

Julie over at The Daily Dog Blog made an excellent poster, “When is it too hot for your dog.” This poster has lots of great information on it and Julie has made it easy to print off. I made about 10 copies that I intend to put in my car, just in case. I also will be stopping at the Dollar Store in the next few days to pick up some thermometers like Jodi Chick suggested to have on hand should I come across a dog in a car.

I did have a thought about making a video but I’m going to need a bit of help on it. Can any of you who do video-editing suggest an inexpensive program I could use to edit video?

And rest assured it does not require me locking a dog in a car!

WTF Wednesday – Author’s Note

To answer a couple of questions left in the comments.

1) I am 99% sure Hubby does NOT read this blog. (There is of course always the tiniest chance he will, but I won’t hold my breath.)

2) Delilah does NOT sleep with an eye mask. Sampson however will. Once I put one on him and left the room and a short time later he came out without it. When he was done sleeping he just took it off. LOL I love that dog.

The Pupperatzi just won’t leave me alone!

It Won’t Kill Them To Miss A Day – Author’s Note

Some of you agreed with Mr. Reluctant in the comments, don’t worry I don’t hold it against you. 🙂

I will say that knowing my dogs, I know how much their daily walk means to them. The other night when we walked around the block Mr. Reluctant looked at Sampson and said, “Look how happy he is to be out walking.”

With that being said, there are certain times such as weather or time constraints when a walk just isn’t possible. In that instance, it is my job as the caregiver to provide them with something stimulating which will help them release their pent-up energy.

This is especially true with Delilah, I’ve found the better exercised she is, the better behaved she is as well.

Despite the heat, we will manage to exercise the dogs, whether it be in physically or mentally.

That’s it for us, so how was your week?

Follow-Up Friday

June 15, 2012 By Jodi

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.

Another Year Gone By – Part 2 – UPDATE

When I write a post I try to ask a question at the end. I do this because I like developing friendships and I think a sharing of information is one of the ways to do that.

That being said, I wonder if I should have asked what you worried about, because now added to my already semi-long list is:

Something happening to the dogs after normal office hours and having to rely on an emergency vet who doesn’t know your pet. Jan from The Poodle and the Dog Blog. (Plus I might add, I’ve heard horror stories about the two emergency vets in my area.)
An imbedded cheat grass seed. AND Blastomycosis. (A condition caused by fungus that flourishes in moist soil with an abundance of decaying matter.) Not to mention the vet thinks Thunder’s bloat was caused by an allergic reaction to a possible insect bite. 2 BrownDawgs Blog
MRSA (siriusly, it never dawned on me that dogs could get MRSA!) AND bone cancer. Jen from My Brown Newfies.

Gosh and I have another 4 months before Sampson goes to the vet!

Just One Day – Author’s Note

I did post a comment on their facebook page asking if they had hard numbers of how many animals were adopted on June 11th, but so far I haven’t seen an answer. Which doesn’t mean they didn’t answer, it just means that facebook changed my feed and I can’t figure out how to work it. LOL

WTF/Whoo Hoo Wednesday – Author’s Note

I had a great idea from some of the comments left on this post. It will be the basis for my next Blog The Change post.

I did see a story on my news this morning about school buses carrying cameras to ensure the children are safe. Wouldn’t that be a great tool to use to ~~hunt down~~ help find those stinkin losers that toss away or abuse animals?

Oh the task force I would have!!

Heart Like a Dog

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