Heart Like a Dog

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

Nine Little Monkeys

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Nine little monkeys jumping on the bed, one fell off and then he said, “Hey Heart Like A Dog, here are your yearly stats from wordpress.

Well okay, I may have embellished that a little, my point is those little WordPress monkeys who were hard at work figuring out everyone’s statistics (and sending them out) finally got around to calculating mine.

Who compares a blog to the Cannes Film Festival?

Oh, the wordpress monkeys that’s who.

4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 20,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 5 Film Festivals.

In 2012, there were 211 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 267 posts.

The busiest day of the year was November 23rd with 1,444 views. The most popular post that day was Dogs of Blogville Calendar Contest.

If this blog was Fatal Attraction…

Those little monkeys must have been watching movies while they were calculating my stats, I see lots of movie references in this report.

These are the posts that got the most views in 2012.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for heart like a dog, hurricane delilah, jodi stone, heartlikeadog.com, and heartlikeadog. (I wonder how many of these searches were mine?)

Where did they come from?

73 countries in all!  Most visitors came from The United States. The United Kingdom & Canada were not far behind.

Glad to see they’re off the film theme.

Who were they?

Your most commented on post in 2012 was Dogs of Blogville Calendar Contest

These were your 5 most active commenters:

I really already knew this.  🙂 You guys are so awesome.

Many thanks to all of you who shared this journey with us and for all of you who shared and commented.  I hope you’ll hang around and see where the 2013 ride takes us.  Tomorrow I’ll look at the goals I set for myself last year and set some goals for this coming year as well.

In keeping with the movie theme the monkeys set out for me:

That’s a wrap.

Co-Hosted Follow-Up Friday

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Welcome to this week’s edition of co-hosted Follow-up Friday Blog Hop.

Follow-Up Friday Blog Hop

Follow-Up Friday

 

My co-hostess this week is someone I admire very much.  She adopted a shy, fearful dog and found out she has some reactivity issues.  Some people would give up on dog like Bella, but not Leslie and Jan.  They’ve found an agility class for reactive dogs and have met with behavioral specialists to find a way to help Bella.  Leslie courageously shares their story on her blog.

Many thanks to Leslie from Bringing Up Bella, for co-hosting the FUF blog hop. The blog hop that let’s you wrap up your week and leads you right into the weekend.

Trail Blazers – Author’s Note

The snow we got was the light and fluffy kind.  All you snow connoisseurs will know, the light, fluffy snow is just as bad (if not worse) than the heavy wet snow.

While I could only manage one loop around, the dogs got plenty of running time.  I however felt like I’d worked out in the gym for about an hour.

Snow

That is hard work!

I. Kid. You. Not.

The Dog Squad – Update

Can you say, open mouth, insert foot?

It was supposed to be a fun post mainly designed to get some followers on Pinterest.  It worked, I now have 16 Pinterest followers, but at first I don’t think it came off quite the way the post was intended.

Initially I started reading the comments and I thought, WHOA, that’s not how I meant it at all.  I thought maybe I better go in and update the post to try to make it a bit clearer.  When I signed into my dashboard there was a comment in the spam folder from Yvonne DiVita.

OMG.  Yvonne DiVita read my blog.

I started to hyperventilate.  Where’s a paper bag when you need one?

But, I caught my breath, updated the post and calmed down a bit.

My friend Cokie wrote this in the comments:

“you thought it looked like the cat people worked it with their wardrobe more than the dog people at BlogPaws, which I think is a fair statement in that I remember seeing more fanciful cat ears, cat prints, cat glasses, cat earrings and cat jewelry in general, than dog ears, dog glasses and dog earrings… Just sayin’ =^..^=”

Thank you Cokie.  That is exactly what I meant.

Pet Blogger Challenge – Author’s Note

What a great, thought-provoking challenge.  I’ve barely gotten into reading the posts (last I looked there were over 80 participants) but I’m already learning so much from all of you.

Great job to all who participated and thanks so much to Amy, from Go Pet Friendly for hosting this blog hop. I really look forward to participating again next year.

Speaking of blog hops, this wraps it up for me.  Many thanks to Leslie from Bringing Up Bella for sharing the co-hosting duties.

This is the Follow-Up Friday Blog hop,



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Co-Hosted Follow Up Friday

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Welcome to the first co-hosted Follow-up Friday Blog Hop of 2013.

Follow-Up Friday Blog Hop

Follow-Up Friday Blog Hop

 

My co-hostess this week is my first repeater!  Yay!!!  When she’s not hunt training her three dogs, she’s changing her blog design, reading blogs, commenting on blogs and I almost forgot.

She’s kicking my butt in Bubble Safari Ocean.

If you haven’t it guessed it by now, it’s our dear friends at the 2 Brown Dawgs Blog!

Thank you so much for co-hosting and joining us today!

Blog of the Year 2012 Award and Hey Sweetness – Author’s Note

It’s exciting to get and pass on awards and it’s also great to find new blogs.  I’m constantly updating my reader with new blogs I discover from you!

Let It Snow – Update

Well Beauregard puppy is gone, they left Wednesday morning and are now safely back in Nebraska.  I’m fairly certain the dogs weren’t sad to see the backside of him.

An interesting comment from Pamela at Something Wagging, “If Sampson is responding to the puppy’s moves instead of instigating problems, I think you have less of a problem.”

Which is something I never considered and yes, it is wonderful to see your dog through someone else’s eyes Pamela.

Until she pointed it out it never dawned on me that the dogs are reacting to the puppy not at the puppy. Point taken.

And because Julie asked, here are a couple of pictures of Bo in his coat.

 

It's my hood, I"m not really wearing a flower behind my ear.

It’s my hood, I”m not really wearing a flower behind my ear.

 

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Hey Sampson, does this coat make my butt look big?

Hunting Bigfoot – Author’s Note

Some posts are just more fun to write than others.  This one rolled around in my brain while on our walk and was just begging to come out.

I hope it was as fun for you to read as it was for me to write.

This ‘N That Thursday – Update

Thank you all for the thoughts and well wishes for my knee. It is feeling so much better.  I made it through yesterday with very little pain, I must have just sat on it wrong.

I don’t think Windows Live Writer will work for my blog. I have a problem with it showing a double header. But I will keep on working on it, because I think it’s a nice program.

Thank you so much to the 2 Brown Dawgs blog for co-hosting this week and thank YOU for tuning in to Follow-Up Friday,




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