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!

Holy Smack Down Batman – Update

Hubby’s scratch has healed and Sampson doesn’t seem to have been traumatized by the falling tree.  I think Hubby and I learned a valuable lesson about neither of the dogs riding in the jeep without benefit of doors.

Thankfully, it wasn’t any worse than it was.

Pitty Post Day – Author’s Note

We all know Pit Bulls get a bad rap.  I think the only way to combat this is education.  Any dog can bite.  Proper education in training a dog and educating people on how to treat dogs will go a LONG way to reducing dog bites.

I came across this blog post  about preventing dog bites, and I put the link on my facebook page, it’s written by an animal control officer.

I wonder how many dogs she’s shot?   Whoops, that should have gone under WTF Wednesday. 🙂

Indulge Me – Author’s Note

It was so exciting for me that so many of you wrote in with ways you indulge your pups, it warms the cockles of my heart.  (Does anyone know what the cockles of your heart actually are?)

WTF/Whoo Hoo Wednesday – Author’s Note

I’m on the fence about this feature.  While it did (according to WP statistics) have the most views this week, it typically does not get a lot of comments.

I am seeing some new names in the comments, but I’m not seeing some old names.  Does that make sense?

While I agree with all of you who said, it’s my blog and I should write what I want, my goal is to become a published writer.  That won’t happen if I’m turning people off.

What to do, what to do.

Another Year Gone By – Author’s Note

Here’s the dilly with this one, I started writing the ‘author’s note’ and realized it really was a whole new blog post.  So look for Another Year Gone By – Part 2 tomorrow.

I really am working on a new command with Delilah and I really do want to share it, but something else seems to keep popping up!

That’s it for Follow-Up Friday! We hope you had a great week!

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!

Happy Gotcha Day Delilah! – Author’s Note:

Like just about everything else I write, somehow that post didn’t quite come out the way it ran in my head.

She has come a very long way and I sometimes forget to focus on that. Instead I look at where I would like her to be.

Truthfully if she had a reliable off-leash recall the rest would be fluff. 🙂  She really is an amazing dog.

Ouch THAT Bit Me! – Update:

Last year I wrote a post about how the bugs love me and how as soon as I step foot in the park they send out the call, “Dinner is here, come and get her.”

Well let me tell you, since I started bringing that racket the call now goes, “Oh my God, she’s hear.  Stay clear, she’s got the stick of death again.  Please take a moment to remember our fallen comrades.”

I’ve walked with that racket every day since I wrote that post, keeping a mental note is my head of all my kills. 🙂 Currently the house points bug kills stand as follows:

Monday – 5 (Although I do think one of those zaps might have been a dandelion fluff.) No points for indiscriminately swinging. 🙂

Tuesday – 1 (What a disappointing day.  This has got to be the day they sent out the warning call.)

Wednesday – 7 (My best day yet, but I’ve still not gotten a deer fly.)

Thursday – 4 (Not my best day, but definitely more satisfying than Tuesday.)

Friday – 6 (I was so close to getting 7 and tying the record, but alas it was not to be.)

Even though I’m walking and swinging the death stick, it is still somewhat startling when you hear that SNAP!  Oh and guess what?  Bugs smell when they’ve been fried. 🙁

I’m disappointed that I did not smote more bugs and have to say the death stick is certainly not even close to being in the same league as the Elder Wand, but it has afforded me some satisfaction against those bugs AND it is another weapon I have at my disposal to aid in my protection from ne’er do wells and the Zombie Apocalypse.

Exercising Challenges – Update

The weather broke!  YAY!  While we all still get hot as we are walking, it is not as humid so the exercise is way more enjoyable. 🙂

WTF/Whoo Hoo Wednesday – Author’s Thought

This week’s post while sad, was not nearly as horrific as last weeks.  I think what I learned from this post is my next Blog the Change post will be directed at education for law enforcement as to how to handle canine interactions.  Siriusly, this shit has got to stop.

The Post Where I Whine And Cry And Basically Feel Sorry For Myself – Update

I have the absolute best readers in the entire world and yes, I’m talking to you.   You all had such really nice things to say about me and my writing and I really, really appreciate it.  I intend to respond to every single comment, I promise!

I said I felt like shutting the computer off and never writing another word, I didn’t say I would actually do it.  Sheesh, you should know me well enough by now that when I have a captive audience (yes you are, go ahead and deny it all you want) I’m going to keep sharing my opinion.

Siriusly, I was/am disappointed but there is a reason and some time when the time is right, I’ll figure out what that reason was.  Rejection is part of a writer’s life and I need to toughen my skin.  I was so taken off guard by the e-mails and I took it personally.  As many of you pointed out, they were not saying I am not a good writer they are just choosing another, easier path for them.

I think I also need to have a bit of confidence in my writing, it’s just that so many of you are SO good and I read your posts and think, why can’t I write a post like that?  Sometimes I think my writing it too simple.

What I want to be clear on is I volunteered for about 8 different things and have only been contacted on three.  One I had to decline because of personal stuff going on with me.  One I actually did work and the others are administrative opportunities that take place during the day when I am working.  Oh and I was asked to put up flyers.

I haven’t decided if I will blog about their organization (I am very spiteful it seems) or if I will just say thank you, I hope it all works out for you and look for something else.

I think sometimes I just feel like all I am doing is treading water and making no progress.  I’ve been posting every day for a year and a half and I think somehow I thought I’d be a little further along than I am.

Please don’t get me wrong, I am truly grateful for your friendship and support, and the fact that people other than my family and friends actually read this blog.  I guess I just hoped I would have attracted a sponsor by now, or be at least doing product reviews.

As they say, “All in good time, my little pretty – all in good time.”

Oh wait, that was a witch wasn’t it? Well….if the Ruby shoes fit. 🙂

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! :-)

What Happens On Sunday – Author’s Thought

There are times when like Sampson, I’d like to lie in my drink.  I’m thinking a gigantic Margarita.  I imagine it this way: rimming the pool with salt and just sitting or floating around with a gigantic straw in my mouth, licking the sides of the pool. LOL

Now that’s a cool and refreshing beverage!

Aliens Took My Dog – Author’s Note:

Since that day whenever Delilah is in the bathroom I put her in a down stay on the rug.  Some days she does better than others, but that’s ok.  She and I are both trying.

WTF Wednesday (A Day Late) – Author’s Note

Sorry for the snafu with this post.  Like I said, I wrote it, I tweaked it, I published it and then something didn’t feel right.  So I took it down, and I used the Whoo Hoo piece and made it the post.

After I took it down and read your comments I realized you all are right, it is my blog and I need to publish what I want, if you don’t want to read it that is your choice.  Besides we all know, “Well behaved women rarely make history.” 🙂

When I tried to repost it, it ended up posting behind Whoo Hoo Wednesday, so I trashed it yet again and apparently I trashed it correctly this time because I lost the one comment I had, which was from Frankie and Ernie verifying that yes, that is a Robin’s egg.

So on to the post itself, first I want to say, I was incorrect in saying the puppy died after 17 days.  The article did not specify the time frame, it said the puppy died days later.  I’m not sure where I got that 17 from.

If I’m being truthful here (which I strive to always be) I think the puppy story really did me in.  It’s so horrific and disgusting and 2 Brown Dawgs is right, the puppy shouldn’t have needed to suffer.

There are times even in the work of rescue where we have to realize we cannot save every single one.  It’s sad and it sucks, but it’s the truth.

I’ve been really sad the last couple of days and can’t quite put my finger on it.

More than likely it’s probably the damn menopause. Honest to God, I’ve been through a divorce, lost my father in an accident at 13, lost all of my grandparents by the time I was 25, raised three girls on a one income salary, went to college while raising three girls and I can’t handle menopause.

I hate being emotional and that puppy story made me emotional.  I’m not a person prone to violence, but I want to hurt that man.  My one thought is that when he gets to prison, which I’m pretty certain he will at some point, that he gets what he deserves because God knows the legal system in this country isn’t going to give it to him.

Whew, I’m done and climbing down from the soap box now.

I hope you had a great week.  Stay safe and have an enjoyable Memorial Day Weekend.

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