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. 🙂

Cooperation – Update

Every night I enter the house with my cell phone (in video mode) in my hand, hoping against hope to catch Sampson doing that special something, but he continues to thwart me.  Tonight he sort of did it when my sister came over but it was really dark and it didn’t turn out!  Drat! I guess I just have to keep trying…maybe at Christmas. 🙂

Kreativ Blogger Award – Author’s Note

The first requirement to accepting this award is to thank the giver.  Which in my haste (and stress) to find 10 random things about me, I forgot to do.  So a GINORMOUS word of thanks to 2BrownDawgs for presenting us with the Kreativ Blogger award and secondly please accept my apologies for not thanking you sooner. 

If you have a minute pop over and check out her blog, she has two awesome Chessies and they are presently nesting in anticipation of a new puppy. 🙂

One For The Team – Update

My finger is feeling much better and is way more comfortable bending.  This morning when loading the dogs in the car for daycare, I reached for the hatch to pull it open and Sampson jumped and the hatch smacked him right between the eyes on its way up.  Then he looked at me as if to say, What the hell did you do that for?”

I’m hoping our hatch stories are behind us. 🙂

So how was your week?  Anything exciting you haven’t share yet?  Like puppy names? 😉

 

Social Media For Social Good – Happy Birthday Dear Delilah

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As usual I’m late to this party.

I’ve mentioned before, sometimes things aren’t quite clear to me when I read about them.  Hence, not knowing what I was supposed to do for this event, my post is a bit late.  But none-the-less, I am here!

Two Little Cavaliers and Pamper Yourself In Pink are hosting a Social Media Blog Event.  Bloggers sign up to promote their blogs on Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus.  On specific days (12/14, 12/18 and 12/22) these 30 bloggers will have posts that will contain links to enter the contest.  Follow the instructions in the blog post by going to the link and entering the contest. (The free WordPress account won’t let me add the script myself.)

The money paid by these bloggers will be split 40/60.  You can enter the drawing here.  The winner will receive $112 cash AND $213 will be donated to the charity of the winner’s choice!  How exciting is that?   Please go check the link out and enter to win.  What do you have to lose?

Before I knew I was supposed to be blogging about this event, I had planned a post for Delilah’s birthday.

Yes, today is my darling Delilah’s sixth birthday, or at least this is the date we have chosen as her birthday  since we don’t really know the date she was born.  When we adopted her in May of 2007 our vet told us she was maybe 18 months old, going back 18 months to December we chose this date to celebrate as it was my grandmother’s birthday and she was very special to me.  The vet’s office lists Delilah’s date of birth as December 1st.

We celebrated her birthday with the family on Saturday.  Pizza and cake for the human partiers and raw food and special cookies for the canines. 🙂

I thought it should have said 'Princess' since Sampson's cookie said 'Prince' but I didn't make them.

 

I handed my niece the camera and said she's fast. My niece gasped Delilah gobbled up that cookie.

 

Seeing she was the birthday girl, she got her bag first.

 

My sister spoils them, so Sampson got a bag too.

 

They sure got a lot of loot.

A brief history.  Delilah was adopted by us from American Lab Rescue, she came to us from a high kill shelter in Louisiana via a converted horse trailer from her foster family in Tennessee.  You can read her story here.

Hubby always says, “Delilah is one dog who is happy to be alive.”

She greets and embraces life head on, whatever is thrown her way she is up for the challenge.

Her enthusiasm for life is amazing, everything she does is with her whole being.  Nothing is half-assed with this dog. 🙂

I could stand to take a few lessons from this gal.

Funny, sweet, frustrating, impetuous, enthusiastic, challenging, silly, stubborn, loving, these are all words I use to describe my girl.

So today on this special day we call your birthday I’d like to say thank you Delilah for all the joy and laughter you have brought into my life.  I am grateful to whoever looked at you and said, “We can save this girl.”

You make me a better person Delilah and for that I thank you.

Think of the lives you can save simply by entering this contest.  Who knows, the donation made on your behalf just might give someone else their ‘Delilah.’

Canine College

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I mentioned in a post last week about another opportunity to volunteer with Our Companions.

It’s Canine College!

I know what you’re thinking.  What the heck is Canine College?

Canine College is a learning program for volunteers who want to be a dog trainer!! 

OC offers low-cost training programs for people who want to train their dogs with positive reinforcement.  The college requires observation of the training classes as well as monthly meetings, where we will be discussing books we have read.  Since the current class is already into their fourth week, I won’t be starting until the end of January or the beginning of February.

I haven’t decided yet if I want to take Delilah for an eight week course first or just jump right in.

There are other areas where the Canine College volunteers work, I could be at the sanctuary walking dogs, or assisting with training, helping temperament test dogs, or handling dogs at adoption events.

I have to admit, I hesitated a bit when the possibility of being bitten arose.  The trainer mentioned she’d lost volunteers when bites were brought up, and wanted to know if it was a problem for anyone, I almost raised my hand but no-one else did and I didn’t want to be the only wimp there. 🙂

So there you have it, my big news. 

Do you have any news you’d like to share?

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