Heart Like a Dog

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

Crab Apples Make Me Laugh

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You’ve all heard the stories of what Labradors eat…just from Delilah I can say, baker’s chocolate, butter, color pencils, play dough, dryer sheets, well, the list goes on and on.

There’s a house at the end of the street, and it has a little tree in the from yard. In the fall, this little tree drops little apples.  I’ve always thought the apples were crab apples, mostly because of this gal.

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Naturally these apples are particularly appealing to a Labrador. I mean, if you’re willing to eat colored pencils, you can only imagine what an apple smells like.

We do work on the leave-it command on our walk, but at 6:00 am I’m not always paying attention, and Delilah knows it.

It’s the funniest thing really. She picks up the apple and tries to bite it. I’m assuming it tastes terrible, because she shakes her head, and curls her lip. She looks like she’s doing the Labrador’s impression of Elvis. LOL

Sometimes she drops it on her own, sometimes I have to convince her, but it doesn’t stop her from the next time.

And she doesn’t limit her munching to apples. Nope, I have to keep my eyes sharp, because she’ll eat anything that smells like food.

I usually laugh at her silly antics, especially because she keeps trying despite the fact every apple she’s ever attempted to eat off that tree, hasn’t tasted well.

 

I Make Me Laugh – September 24, 2017

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I’m↓ always sharing photos and stories of things my dogs do that make me laugh or smile. Truth be told, sometimes I do something with my dogs that also makes me laugh or smile.

Like yesterday, after I’d spent the whole day working and wanted to give the dogs their walks before dinner.  After giving Sampson his walk, I got Delilah ready and out the door we went.

About half-way through our walk, I looked down at Delilah and realized something.

Look closely.

I’m looking, but I don’t see anything.

Can you figure out what it is?

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If you guessed that I put Sampson’s harness on Delilah, give yourself a pat on the back!

I did laugh, but I was ever so grateful that nothing happened that got her riled up, so that she slipped the harness.

A time or two, I’ve tried to put Delilah’s harness on Sampson, but since he weighs about 15 to 20  pounds more than she does, hers does not fit him.

I guess you could technically say that his doesn’t fit her either…but we made it work.

Have you ever used the wrong equipment on your pet?

 

There’s a Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road

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Did you ever sing that song when you were a kid? It was something we sang when we had at least three kids to ‘play it.’

Never heard of it? It starts like this…

Kid 1 – “There’s a dead skunk in the middle of the road, I one it.”

Kid 2 – “I two it.”

Kid 3 – “I three it.”

Kid 1 – “I four it.”

Kid 2 – “I five it.”

Kid 3 – “I six it.”

Kid 1 – “I seven it.”

Kid 2-

Well if you were ever the kid who ‘eight’ it, you quickly learned to say, “I jumped over the fence and (insert name of one of the other kids who were singing) eight it.

Why? Why am I remembering this now?

Well because there was a dead skunk in the middle of the road one Friday night.

It was really almost on the center line.  I saw it on my way home from girl’s night, and I thought how grateful I was that it was so close to the centerline, so I didn’t hit it, or have to swerve to miss it, or worse yet, run through it.

In fact, the next morning when I drove past it again, it was still intact near the centerline.

Sadly when I drove through later in the afternoon, the skunk had been flattened. Why? It was close to the centerline, someone had to either not be paying attention, and drifted close to the line, or they deliberately smushed it. Again, why?

Evidently, Grandma couldn’t avoid it on her way through, because both the dogs got a little wild when they got near Grandma’s car.  In fact, they both gave it a thorough sniffing.

What is this weird smell?

She sniffed it here.

I think there’s something under here.

And here.

Funny, I can’t see anything, but I can sure smell something.

And here.

Gives an entirely new meaning to odor recognition.

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