Heart Like a Dog

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

Caption This Photo

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Every Labrador Retriever I’ve ever met, has been motivated by food. Like all dogs, some are more motivated by others.

Sampson is only part Labrador Retriever, so while he’s motivated for food, he’s never been one to go into the garbage, destroy used napkins or paper towels that had food on them, run off on a walk to eat bird seed from the neighbor’s yard, counter surf (except for when he was a puppy and went for the butter, and filet mignon, but who could really blame him for that? Not me.)

Unlike a certain Labrador Retriever who has done all of the above, and then some.

Honestly, her exploits are what legends are made of. Every self-respecting Labrador should aspire to eat at least half of what she has.

Okay, so I gave you the background, now here’s the task. While I was searching for a photo for today’s post, I came across this photo.

Now, I already have a caption in mind, but I want to hear what you think, and how you’d caption the photo. And just for a little background, that container she’s holding is what stores their raw food in the refrigerator. I had used the last of the food up, and stuck the container in the sink to wash it. Delilah took it OUT of the sink, and decided to wash it her way.

True story.

I have a friend, who met her current husband in a bar. It went down like this.

My friend Charlotte was visiting from Chicago. So the Hubs and I decided to take her out to our favorite bar for a drink. Hubs was shooting pool, so Char and I sat at the bar. The TV was on, but you couldn’t hear the sound, SO…I supplied the dialogue. But in a funny kind of way, because I like to make things funny. Well, there was a guy at the bar, and he was listening in, and we all were laughing, and the next thing I knew, I was standing up for them at their wedding.

What can I say? I like this kind of stuff….and I thought it might be fun to include you guys in it.

Sound like fun? Good.

Captioning contest will end Saturday, July 15, 2017 at 3:00 pm Eastern Standard Time, and I’ll announce the winner either Sunday the 16th, or Tuesday the 18th.

Oh and to make this a bit more fun, SO…The person who has what I consider the best caption, will receive a $15 Amazon card.

And go!

 

Pull Up A Spot of Grass

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Yesterday, Pet Faves had a post on Facebook that asked, if your pet had a job, what would it be?  I responded with Delilah would be a taste tester, and Sampson would be a greeter at Wal-mart.

Sampson just loves people, and he makes friends everywhere we go. A couple of weeks ago, we ran into one of our ‘friends’ (Blanche) on our afternoon walk. I stopped for a quick chat, when one of Sampson’s other friends (Rich) came strolling by, so I introduced them.

After Rich left, Blanche said to me, “You know more people than I do in this neighborhood.”

And I responded with, “It’s because of him, he just loves people SO much.”

Honestly, he makes friends al over the neighborhood, and he remembers where they live.

One of his friends, who I’ve mentioned before is Mrs. Whinnem. We stop at her house every time we find her outside. She is one of Sampson’s favorites, and he will stop at least three times checking for her, if she’s not out.

That’s three times in one direction, and three times in the other.

Friday, it was a warm day, and on Sampson’s second pass, I’m not sure if he was hot, or he thought he’d simply pull up a spot of grass and wait for Mrs. Whinnem, but just after we passed her driveway, he plopped down in the grass.

And I laughed and laughed, because who knows what goes on in that handsome head of his?

You Watch Us, So We Watch You

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The other day, my friend Sue posted a photo on Facebook of her two dogs, Shadow and Ducky laying outside the bathroom.

Ducky on the left, Shadow on the right. Photo blatantly ganked from Sue’s Facebook page.

I think I wrote something like, “You watch us, so we watch you.” And then I put the little poop emoji up. 

Can someone, anyone, please tell me why WordPress doesn’t have an emoji option? Please!

 

I really had to laugh at Sue’s photo, because it really hits home for me. Most mornings, Delilah is either right in the bathroom with me, or waiting outside while I get ready for work.  Okay, really…she starts out in the bathroom with me, with her body between my legs, but eventually she gets tired of me climbing over her, so she goes and waits in the hall.

She’s a food driven Lab in every sense of the word. The reason she sits outside the bathroom, is because she hasn’t had her breakfast yet and she wants to make sure I don’t forget that she needs to eat.

When my kids were younger I thought I’d never get to be by myself in the bathroom until the kids were older.

Turns out I was wrong.

As long as you have kids or dogs, you’ll never get alone time in the bathroom.

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