Heart Like a Dog

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

Love/Hate Relationship

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Longtime blog readers know…Delilah has a love/hate relationship with the chipmunks in our yard.

They love to taunt her by standing right in her sight, and she hates them when she goes flying outside and they dive into one of their tunnels.

Yesterday, as Delilah and I came back from our walk, Hubby said, “See that brown spot just inside the black drainpipe?”  I nodded. “I think that’s a chipmunk.”

Delilah and I usually play a treat finding game in the driveway. It’s my way of getting her use to being off-leash, but keeping her focused and in the yard.

I unclipped her from her leash and said, “Chippie” as quietly as I could.

She ran up the driveway, looking around. Finally, she found her way to the pipe. It took about 10 to 15 seconds before she realized the chipmunk was in the drainpipe.

Damn but I wish I’d been quicker with the camera, and caught her with her nose in the drainpipe!

Close…but no chippie!

What the woof! What’s a dog gotta do to get a chippie?

Once she figured it out, she started pawing at the drainpipe. Which made Hubby tell her to stop, and of course, it made me laugh. 🙂

Thwarted Again!

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Sometimes…when you have dogs, you have the greatest of intentions to do something nice for them.

But sometimes, dogs have their own ideas of what they like.

Spring has finally arrived in the northeast, and while we’ve been having a lot of rain…(April showers and all), so we are treasuring those sunny days.

Last week, I ran out to do some errands, and Hubby thought Sampson might like to spend a little time outside in the sun. He grabbed a couple of throw rugs and laid them out on the deck.

You can see them in the photo, right there to the left of Sampson, who apparently felt the leaves would be a nicer place to snooze.

And Hubby and I, laughed and laughed.

Leave this for that? He’s out of his mind!

When has your dog thwarted one of your good intentions?

The Diss

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I’ve heard it said that dog’s can’t be jealous, but my experience tells me that is just not true.

Case in point, my dogs. When one or the other of them are getting attention from one or the other of us, the dog that is not getting the attention, can get a bit pushy.

The other day Hubby came home and as is custom, he greets the dogs. This time he greeted Sampson first, and Delilah’s nose was a bit out of joint. (She typically climbs right up in his lap as soon as he sits down.)

I made room for her on my lap (honestly, she thinks she’s a lap dog, which wouldn’t be so bad, if she would just sit still. But she wiggles, and shifts and sometimes she practically squishes me!) where she proceeded to lay against me, and seemed quite content.

Until Hubby got up off the floor and sat on the couch, at which point she immediately jumped down, and climbed up on his lap!

I definitely felt dissed. But Hubby and I still laughed about it.

I mean, a Diva knows what she wants.

What did your dogs do this week that made you laugh?

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