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Let Loose the Sailor – Barks and Bytes

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First off, I want to announce the winner’s of our Rocky’s Rollers Rock Our World giveaway.

You may recall we shared that post a couple of weeks back and told you we would give away (actually it’s Jones Natural Chews who is giving it away) three bags of Rocky’s Rollers. I told you all I would announce the winners today, and low and behold I remembered to have the drawing. 🙂

So without further ado… I started with the first comment (via Facebook Plug IN) and asked for three numbers between 1 and 21. I was given 13, 16 and 21 and those winners are: Molly Pitcher, Sandy Weinstein and 2 Brown Dawgs! Congratulations, I’ll be contacting you via e-mail and will forward you information to the folks at Jones Natural Chews!

Thanks to all of you who entered.

Warning, she's preparing to loose her inner sailor.

Warning, she’s preparing to let loose her inner sailor.

Warning…rant and bad words ahead.

Siriusly WTF…

Really today’s post could have been a what the fuck post. My head is about to explode.

It started out with the photo on Facebook of a Great Dane “dressed up” as a horse, with a small child in costume on his back.

HIS BACK!

From the snap shot I felt the dog was uncomfortable and I shared it on my Facebook page with this caption, “This is wrong on so many levels. That someone thinks it’s okay to do this to their dog, that someone thinks it’s cute enough to share it. And when the dog bites the kid, the dog is the one at fault. Wake the fuck up people.”

I can’t share the picture here because the Facebook or Google police will get pissed off, but you can see it on my Facebook page.

Upon venturing to the original picture to read the comments (Why, oh why do I do that? Bangs head on desk) it only pissed me off more. The people who spoke up against it were told to “get a grip” “the kid only weighs 20 pounds” “It’s probably a staged photo, the kid didn’t actually RIDE the dog”.  So it may be that the photo was staged and no-one actually RODE the dog, STILL some fucking ignoramus will think it’s okay and do the same thing with horrific results.

I’m stating it right here and right now, if anyone tries to ride one of my dogs, I will knock them so hard in the mouth, they will give new meaning to the term, “Talking out your ass.”

How to introduce your kitten to your dogs.

Next, one of my friends shared this on Facebook.

To put this message in context, the question posed initially was how do I introduce my new kitten to my two Huskies?

How NOT to raise a kitten

You’ll notice I’ve added icons to cover the names as I wouldn’t want my friend to have someone pissed off at her. Mind you my friend is represented by the sweet little tiger icon.

Notice the lovely advice my friend gave? To supervise the interactions so the dog doesn’t get too rough.

See the response from the dragon lady. Yes, I gave her a fucking dragon for an icon because 1) that’s medieval advice and 2) what kind of evil woman lets her children do this to a kitten? What kind of sociopathic children will she have? And one day when her kid does something heinous, she will go, I wonder what happened? AND what did she do to her children to prepare THEM for the evils of this world?

No, it doesn’t get any better. We were hoping someone had schooled her on how horrible the idea was, but this was the next exchange.

How NOT to raise a kitten
Notice she’s still a dragon and notice the original poster has a “BAM” covering her name. That’s me, smacking her upside her stupid head for thinking this is a good idea.

Did you see that last bit? Yeah, she has a puppy now. God only knows what the dragon lady is doing to that sweet puppy.

Had enough? I had, but then….another friend shared a video on Facebook of a baby that looked to be about 12 to 15 months old sitting in front of a clearly pissed off cat. Queue the video, the baby takes its hand and smacks the cat upside its head and the cat, launches itself at the baby, knocking it over.

Now I ask you, what kind of fucking idiot sets their baby up for something like that? And the cat.?Now the baby is afraid of the cat and will do Dog only knows what and the cat is afraid of the baby.

One of my friends, friends wrote under the video “That’s so funny! I literally laughed out loud!” And I wrote back, “THAT isn’t funny at all. That’s horrible! WTF is wrong with people?” To which my friend acknowledged that while he thought it was funny, “Their parenting skills needed work.”

Dear Facebook, If you don’t stop showing me stuff from stupid people, I’m going to have to unfriend you.

End Rant.

Run Fast, Run Free Jeffie.

Our hearts are heavy and we send our love and sympathies to Sue and the crew over at The Talking Dogs Blog who are grieving over the loss of their precious Jeffie.

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We’re Trick Training So You Can Win Treats

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The Trick or Treat Giveaway Hop is a sponsored by Lionel Trains, the Art of AJ, pawTree, Dr. Harvey’s, Jones Natural Chews, Puppy Style Treats, Clear Conscience Pet, Whimseez, Loving Pets and Weruva. All content and opinions expressed are my 100% my own. Trick or Treat Blog hop We’re joining our hosts, Kol’s Notes and Beagles and Bargains to present the first every Trick or Treat Blog Hop! (You can check out all the goodies over at Kol’s Notes.)

So here’s the scoop. It started last week and continues through this week! Each day a different blogger will show you a trick and you get a chance to win a treat. Today’s treat is a chance to win a $25 gift code to shop at Clear Conscience Pets.  At the end of the week, every person who entered the daily giveaways is entered to win one of three grand prizes!

All participating trick or treat

Today’s trick….well, I thought it’d be really cool to teach Delilah to turn the kitchen light off.  I was gonna go all Harry Potter and the command would be “Nox” which all you Potterheads know, is the spell to extinguish the light on the end of your wand. (Hey, it’s a handy spell trick to know.) 

Both my dogs know “Touch” which is the command for them to touch their paw to my hand. I’ve worked Delilah in training classes and she did quite well both with touching my hand and also touching the wall. I thought, this is going to be easy.

Nailed it! NOT!!

Turns out, it wasn’t as easy as I thought. But I learned a few things I’d like to pass along.

Use the lowest value treat your dog will work for. If your dog will work for a pea, don’t use bacon. Save your higher value treats for recalls and special occasions.

Choose your training time wisely. In retrospect, in the morning before breakfast is NOT the time to bring out the bacon.

Always end on a positive note. If you’re getting frustrated or your dog just isn’t ‘getting it’, then stop the training. Ask your dog for an easy trick they already know, and end on a happy note.

Tire your dog out a bit before you start. You don’t want them tired to the point where they can’t focus, but trust me when I say this, if you’ve got a highly motivated treat dog, you’ll want them to be a wee bit tired.

If you’d like to see a dog ACTUALLY learn to switch the lights, you can check out this YouTube video, starring Lady.

And one last thing! Clear Conscience Pet is going to have a promo code for 20% off from now through December 31, 2015. Use this code BOO20.

Tomorrow’s trick is a surprise, but you’ll find it over on the Jones Natural Chews blog.

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You Make Me Laugh – October 25, 2015

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You make me laugh (or smile) the sweet, funny, loving things my dogs do on a daily basis that brings a smile to my face or a laugh to my lips.

Sampson, the way you wait in the car for me….

Golden Labrador in Driver's Seat

You make me laugh.

Yesterday I ran out to the local bakery to pick up some breakfast treats for Hubby and me. Typically I don’t take the dogs when I run to the store, but I make an exception here because I can park at the front of the store (which is all glass). The bakery is as soon as you walk in, so I can basically stand there ordering my donuts and watching Sampson at the same time.

As soon as I leave the car, Sampson pops into the driver’s seat where he sits and waits for me, staring at the store, but also people watching. At one point he rested his head not he steering wheel and I almost wet myself laughing, it was SO cute.

The man in front of me paid and left the store. I watched as he stopped in front of the car and pulled out his cell phone. I stepped out of the store and told him I was just regretting leaving my phone in the car, because I wanted a photo myself.  We shared a chuckle together as he showed me the photo he’d taken.

After I paid for my goodies I put them in the car and attempted to take the photo. Apparently the excitement was over because Sampson kept looking away.

As I was getting ready to leave, a car pulled in a spot away from me. Sampson’s window was open and he was desperate to get the attention of the lady in the car (he didn’t). It was then that I snapped this photo.

The Labrador Stare

Excuse the dirty windows…I have labradroolers.

Your turn, what do your dogs do in the car that make you laugh or smile?

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