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What the Fashionable Dog Walker is Wearing

August 18, 2014 By Jodi

The thing I dislike about this time of year is it begins to be dark earlier and it stays dark later in the mornings. Many times the dogs and I are walking in the dark.

In the colder months, I have an ear muff with a visor and I have a little light that clips on the visor. (Perfect to keep your hands free for rewarding or picking up….um…stuff.)

Let there be light.

This little light of mine…

Except at the end of last winter one of the clips on the light broke AND I can’t find the visor or the light.

So far I haven’t needed a light to walk the dogs either in the morning or evening.  Except for last Thursday.  Last Thursday we woke up to rain combined with a little bit of fog.  Sampson and Delilah don’t care, as long as I’m willing to walk in the weather, they are too.

Some mornings when we walk we never see a person or car.  Other mornings there are many people out and about.  Because it was darker than normal I needed something to light me up in the darkness.  I have no reflective clothing, which is something I really need to get.  Sampson and Delilah have reflective vests, but I can only find one.

So we improvised.

This little light of mine....

Yeah, I’m fashionable! 

It’s Hubby’s headlight lamp adjusted to fit over my neck.  It worked as a temporary light, but it’s not really functional for walking when it’s dark.   And it only highlights me. 🙁

While I typically pay attention to my surroundings and either place the dogs on the inside between my body and the curb, or bring them up off the road, I’d still like them to have something that is either reflective or lights up.

Amy from Go Pet Friendly shared a post last week highlighting some great new products she found at SuperZoo, one of which is a new line of reflective gear from Alcott, and these are definitely on my list of items to check out.  

I know many of you walk your dogs at night or early morning, and I was wondering, what do you use for your dogs to make sure they are visible to any cars you might encounter?  For me it’s not feasible to carry a flashlight, I’m not coordinated enough. 🙂  

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Filed Under: Meanderings, Recreation Tagged With: Humor, Jodi Stone, Life With Sampson And Delilah

What’s the Stink About?

September 23, 2013 By Jodi

How are you about picking up poop?  Here’s my truth.  I don’t pick it up in the yard.

I know. I know, it’s bad and I’m not going to make excuses except to say that my yard is big and it’s woody and brushy and dog poop likes to play hide and seek there.

Nagini's feeding ground when he's not in the wood pile.

We’re working on getting some trees down and bushes trimmed and hopefully all the leaves and ground cover picked up, then we will start working on one area of the yard for the dogs to poop in, which should make cleaning up easier.

Until then, well let’s just say we’ll tiptoe through the tulips when we walk up there.  But siriusly, when I do find poops when I’m working up there, I pick them up.

When we go out for daily hikes I have my trusty poop bags clipped to my pants.  I’m frugal, sometimes I pick up two or three poops in one bag.  Because I roll that way.  Other days, I tie the bags together to form the dog walker’s Chinese Star. And I always pick up the poop, unless Sampson goes so far in the brush that I’d have to Army Crawl to get to it, and then I leave it.

Sue me.

But SOME of the people who walk in our park can’t be bothered to pick up after their dogs.  EVER.

The town even put up a poop station and a bunch of signs explaining WHY people should be cleaning up after their dogs.

PicMonkey Collage Yeah, I thought that was overkill myself.  (The signs mysteriously disappeared a week or so later.)

Now I don’t mind picking up my dog’s poop.  They eat raw and trust me when the people who know poop tell you raw poop is different than kibble poop, well they aren’t just talking shit.  They know their shit.

My dog’s poops are hard, in fact sometimes it looks like their pooping sand, that’s how hard their poops are.  Don’t worry, they aren’t straining to go, I keep a careful eye on that, but they are hard.  Whenever I get a Mr. Softy in there, I know someone has been eating something they shouldn’t.

My point is I have no problem picking up my dog’s nice, hard poop, but for some reason some other dog’s cold, squishy doo just makes me want to puke.

Saturday I walk into the park and what’s the first thing I see?

Poop

Yup!  Somebody’s dog cranked a steamer right next to the poop station.  Sirisuly, how much lazier could you be?  If you were any closer your dog would have crapped in the container, but somehow you couldn’t manage to pick it up?

I wanted to put up a sign that said, “Hey shit for brains, you left your brains here,” but I didn’t have any paper.

Our entire walk I thought about that poop, and how horrible it was for these ass kabobs to be sitting there right next to the poop station.  I knew I had to pick up the poop but I was gagging a little just thinking about it.

By the time we finished our walk, I had a plan.  I put the dogs in the car and opened the window in the hatch, so they could stick their heads out to see what I was doing.  **Note to self, next time you take the car in for service tell the dealer that those hydraulics on the window don’t work.**

Poop1

I grabbed a couple of poop bags from the station and set one on the ground next to the colon cannonballs and using a stick rolled those keister cakes onto the bag.

Poop2

I folded the bag around the toxic turds and using another bag, I picked it up.  It was so much easier than picking up the soft and squishy park sausage with only one bag.

After I’d disposed of the shitsicles, I thought, I’d really love to know whose dog is doing this so I could gather all the park poop and dump it on their lawn.  Isn’t that awful?  Or maybe fill paper bags with it on Halloween and light it on fire on their front steps.

Well of course that idea is gone now since I put it on the internet, they’ll know who to look to should flaming bags of poo start appearing in my neighborhood.

Sirisuly though, there has to be a way to get through to people.  Do you have any thoughts or ideas?  Sugar does.

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Filed Under: Heart Like A Dog, Hiking, Humor, Meanderings, Social Responsibility Tagged With: Dog Poop, Heart Like A Dog, hiking, Humor

Troll-In the Dungeons

August 19, 2013 By Jodi

“Harry was just helping himself to a baked potato when Professor Quirrell came sprinting into the hall, his turban askew and terror on his face.  Everyone stared as he reached Professor Dumbledore’s chair, slumped against the table, and gasped, “Troll – in the dungeons – thought you ought to know.””

He then sank to the floor in a dead faint.  (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J. K. Rowling, 1997)

Okay so there’s not really a troll in my dungeon.

Actually I don’t really have a dungeon.  I do have a basement, but there’s no troll in there, only my mom.

Unless there’s something she’s not telling me, there’s no troll.

I know what you’re thinking.  What in the hell does that have to do with a dog blog?  Has she lost her freaking mind?

I suppose the answer to that would depend upon who you spoke to.

This post actually has nothing to do with trolls or dungeons.  It all has to do with our wood pile.  I just wasn’t sure you’d read the post if I told you what was in the wood pile.

The story goes like this.

Thursday after work I took the dogs for a walk and Hubby went outside to cut some wood.  When we came back from our walk Hubby said “Look what I found in the wood pile.”

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Hubby said he lifted up the tarp covering the wood and there it was.  He poked it with a stick and it slithered under the wood pile.  Yesterday when he lifted up the tarp, it was back again.

Hubby says it’s a Garter Snake.

I said it needs to go.

Hubby says it won’t mess with people or pets, he also says it’s eating spiders.

Well then.  As long as it’s eating spiders, it can stay.  As long as it leaves me and my dogs alone. I mean really, what’s one snake vs how many spiders in a pile of wood?

I’m really not so worried about it bothering me.  If you’re a betting person, odds are pretty good that I will never approach the wood pile again.

I’m not so sure about the dogs.  They keep going over there and sniffing.

Every time they head out that way I tense up.  But I grab my camera too. 🙂  If they do discover it, hopefully I’ll have pictures.  Unless I’m too busy screaming and running.

Would you leave a Garter Snake in your wood pile?  Would you go near a wood pile with a Garter Snake?  Inquiring minds want to know.

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