Heart Like a Dog

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

Strange Doin’s

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Once daylight savings ends, most of our daily walks take place on my lunch hour.  I’m lucky enough to work close enough so I can zip home at lunch and still manage to get a 30 minute walk in.  On the days I can’t zip home, we are stuck walking around the block at night.  Which really stinks. 🙁

Friday as we approached the field I could see some people standing around something white.  At first I thought it was a casket.

Weird right?

Having taken a video class myself in college, I suspected it might be some type of photo shoot or school project.  Sampson of course was so excited that there were people, so I thought it might be better to approach the people after the dogs had burned off some energy.  I leashed him up and headed off in a different direction.

Besides do you really want to dart up to somebody standing by a casket in the middle of the a field?

I didn’t either.

We walked for a bit, then came at the field from a different direction, by this time more young people had joined the party.  I could see as we got closer  what I had originally thought was a casket, was in fact a table.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Made approaching the kids a little more comfortable I can assure you.

By now I could tell they were filming something as the majority of them were in costume.  Oh and there was the little matter of the person with the video camera giving out directions.  A young man standing near the table, noticed my barking, rooing, lunging dog so he approached to pet him and he was joined by a young lady, and they confirmed it was indeed a video project for school.

As we made to leave I took a couple of discreet photos (which is why you really can’t see much.)  I didn’t want the kids to get big heads thinking the Paparazzi was already stalking them.

Fotorpeeps You can see there are bunch of them.  I added the arrow, because I know how small they are.

When we got back to the car I looked in the mirror and realized I probably scared the shit out of those kids.

A while back on Facebook there was some fad going around where you changed your profile picture to the cartoon character that you closely resembled.  Since my hair is red and I like to wear it really short and spiky I change my picture to

Photo courtesy of Wikipedia

Photo courtesy of Wikipedia

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Can you see the resemblance?

Which Way Do We Go?

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Lately Sampson hasn’t been responding to me when we encounter people or other dogs on our walks.  This means his off-leash privileges have been revoked.  There are still some times and some days when I let him off leash a bit, but for the most part he’s on the long leash the same as Delilah.

I hear too many stories of dogs being lost or stolen and I’d rather not take the chance.  The kicker was the day he ran off, ignoring me completely and followed a couple of fellow hikers.

Sorry Sampson, that doesn’t fly with the Mama.

As those of you who walk more than one dog know, multiple dogs can prove to be challenging.  I’ve been searching for a leash coupler, but the places around me are out of stock on the 24″.  I have found it on-line, but the shipping options suck.  I think it’s ridiculous to pay $10 to ship a $5 leash, especially when I just shipped 95 calendars all for around $5 each.  One of my local stores is ordering a coupler for me but in the meantime, I walk two dogs and deal with the challenges.

What? You've never heard the tale of the two stubborn labs?

What? You’ve never heard the tale of the two stubborn labs?

 

At times (depending on my mood) this can be frustrating for me.  But not this day.  This day I chose to find the humor in it.  I took the photo and then I waited.  I waited to see who would move first.  And I thought, I can work with this.

Here’s where you come in.  Remember those Dogs of Blogville Calendars?

 

In order to get the cheapest price, I ordered a few extra.  So I thought, let’s do something fun and give one of those away.

Are you up for the challenge?

In the top photo, we have Sampson to the left side of the tree and Delilah to the right.  In the comments tell me who turned back to me first and which path we ended up taking.  Don’t worry, everyone who comments will go in the drawing for the calendar, you don’t need to have guessed correctly to win.

Random.org will choose the winner, which I’ll announce in next week’s Thanksgiving edition of This ‘N That Thursday. I’ll cut off entries Tuesday night at midnight EST.

Ready. Set. Which Way Do We Go?

I Spy With My Little Eye

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The leaves have been falling in our little corner of paradise for the last three or four weeks.  Last week during one of our walks I noticed that Delilah had a bunch of leaves plastered to the back of her left foot.

Fotor01019220717 Yup, poor Delilah.  She stepped in an ass bomb.

I pulled the leaves off and wiped as much of it as I could off and when we got home, I washed her foot.

Now if this had been Sampson I’d have had no idea where he picked this up, but seeing as Delilah is on leash and limited in her travels, I figured she picked it up on one of the trails.  So the next time we were out there, I found the offending pile in the middle of the trail and removed as much of it as I could.  I say as much of it, because the ass cake was right in the center of an embedded rock.

And no, butt nuggets do not rock.

This month’s #ScoopThatPoop blog hop is Poop Poetry.  I guess I should have checked before I designed this post.  Because I don’t have any poetry prepared.  I had to do it on the fly…sorry!

Don’t fly the coop
After you drop that poop
Teach your human to scoop
Before someone steps in that goop
And falls on their ass with a whoop!
 

I know it’s not always easy, I mean I’ve had them both pooping at the same time on different sides of me.

As I’ve mentioned before, poop from a raw fed dog is much harder than a standard poop.  What I may not have mentioned is….the color.  My dog’s poop is a mustard/yellow/gold color.

Did I mention that a LOT of the leaves that are falling in our woods are yellow?  Yup, sometimes I just can’t find that poop.

For example, see if you can spot the poop in this photo.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA (Yes my trained eye found the offending Lincoln Log and picked it up.)

This may not be the best example because most of these leaves have dried and turned brown, but I think you get the point.  Go ahead and guess, I already have a photo ready for Friday’s post that shows you just exactly where the colon cake is.

It’s like the Where’s Waldo of poop.  I spy with my little eye…….butt butter.

Anyway, I know all of you clean up after your dogs, but we need to find a way to get everyone to do this, it really helps cut down on the spread of diseases.

Besides, it’s the environmentally friendly thing to do.

So how do we get people to understand the benefits of cleaning up after their dogs?

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