Heart Like a Dog

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

Sometimes You Just Want Your Mommy

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We’ve had Sampson since he was eight weeks old, and we used the crate to train him.

Once Sampson was house broken he only used the crate at night.  After he started sleeping in bed with us, he used his crate when he wanted to.

When Delilah joined our pack we added a second crate.   I’m pretty sure that whoever had Delilah before us, also used the crate, because she doesn’t mind it at all.  In fact, if she’s misbehaving all we have to say is, “Do you want to go in your crate?” And she runs right in there.  She will also stay in the crate without having to latch the door.

When we moved we only set one crate up, for Delilah of course.  After a bit of time I noticed Sampson was going back inside the crate, so we set the second crate up, but we are now back to one crate.  It sits in the corner of the living room and Delilah uses it when we need her in it or when she wants it, which isn’t frequent.

Mostly the crate is used by Bob.

Last night after the dogs finished their snacks Sampson started wandering around.  He climbed down off the couch and went into the crate where I heard him scratching around.

The he walked out and scratched at the rug, he laid down but I could tell he just wasn’t comfortable, so I sat down on the floor with my back to the couch and patted the floor in front of me.  He just looked at me with his sad eyes.

So I got up, grabbed a blanket and threw it over my legs.  His eyes lit up and before I had even finished arranging the blanket, he got up and came over and laid next to me.  He put his head on my leg and I stroked his ears and he went to sleep.

Sometimes you just want your Mommy.

Book Update: My book has 6,378 words.

Death By Chocolate – Part Two

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If you missed the post about Delilah’s first attempt on my life, you can find it here.   Since she failed in her attempt to kill me by force, she decided her next attempt would be to give me a heart attack.

Before you read any further, I will let you know that we are all fine.

I had planned on walking the dogs this morning, but needed a quick trip to the post office.  I was gone from the house for 20 minutes, 25 minutes tops.

I came back grabbed a cheese stick to munch on and started gathering all the items I use on our walk.

Cell phone, pepper blaster, treat bag, keys. (The poop bags are missing.)

I noticed the dish rag was on the floor.  I picked it up, looked at Delilah and said, “Why is this here?”  She turned her back and ignored me.

I went to the area where I keep our walking things and then I noticed this.

Of course this is how it looks after I picked it up, I was so freaked out that I didn’t think to take a picture.  Why?  Because before it was destroyed and consumed it had at least two to four of every one of these inside it.

I remember saying, “Oh My God, Oh My God, Oh My God” while I looked frantically for the vet’s phone number.

I finally found it and called the vet, our conversation went something like this:

Me: Hi this is Jodi Stone, Delilah just ate a whole bunch of supplements and other stuff.

Angie: OK, what did she eat?

Me: Well flax seed, calcium, vitamins, some Benadryl, some Omeprazole, and some adrenal support supplements.

Angie:  OK, let me see if a Dr. or vet tech is available to speak with you.

Me: Ok.  Oh My God, Oh My God, Oh My God.

Angie: OK, I spoke with Dr. B, she thinks Delilah will be OK, but just to be on the safe side, you should make her vomit.  You can either bring her here or do it at home.

Me: Well how do you make her puke?  (I mean I’ve heard of people puking their dogs before, but in all my years of owning dogs, I’ve never done it.)

Angie:  Dr. B says a quarter to half a cup of Peroxide.  Start with a quarter cup and if she doesn’t vomit, give her the other half.  If that doesn’t work, you will need to bring her in.  Give her a little water after you give her the Peroxide.

Me: I don’t know if I even have Peroxide.  (As I’m talking, I’m walking to the bathroom and checking under the sink.)

Me: OK, I have some.  Now how do I get her to drink it?

Angie:  Well when I had to give it to my cat, I used a syringe.

Me: OK, I’ll see what I can do, if I can’t get her to puke, I’ll call you back.

Angie: Call us back either way.

After we hung up I began rummaging thru the cupboards, thinking how many times I will need to fill the syringe  to give her a quarter of a cup.  That’s when I remembered Mr. Honey Bear.

Yes, I saved the bear that my honey came in because I thought it might be something fun for my grandson to drink out of when he was at my house.

Mr. Honey Bear worked great.  But she wouldn’t take any water.

And then we waited.  Of course Delilah was all kinds of pissed off at me.  I tried to keep her off the deck so the vomit would be on the ground and I kept stroking her and telling her it was OK.  Her stomach heaved once, but she didn’t puke.

After five minutes I called the vet’s office back.  Of course I couldn’t remember who I talked to, so I asked them to ask around and I ended up with Angie again.  I told her she’d had the quarter cup and hadn’t vomited and asked how long I should wait before giving her the second quarter.  Angie said it should be pretty immediate and if five minutes had passed and she hadn’t puked, I should give her the rest.

I hung up and filled Mr. Honey Bear again.  Delilah didn’t want anything to do with me, she walked around, then went to tinkle, right after she tinkled she turned around and puked.

Thank God.

I’m still not sure what happened to my cheese stick.

Book Update: My word count is the same as yesterday.

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! 🙂

I really only want to follow-up with Justice For Putz.

People have different ideas about whether dogs are supposed to provide protection or not.  Personally I don’t want my dog putting him/herself in harm’s way for me.   My dogs are like my children and I would protect my children with my life.  I try really hard to let my dogs know that I can take care of myself and in turn take care of them.  That is the reason we train with other people and dogs as frequently as we can.

But I can’t get inside my dog’s mind to know what they are thinking and I can’t predict with 100% accuracy how my dog will react in any given situation.  I’d like to think neither one of my dogs would EVER bite, but they are dogs and I don’t know.  Which is why we take precautions with our dogs around other people, especially children.    We also try and educate other people about how to treat our dogs.

I find it sad that because a dog bites, it is immediately the dog’s fault.  My aunt and uncle had a dog once, Scooter who jumped their fence and bit a child.  I don’t know all of the reasonings for their decision (if the law was involved or not) but they decided to euthanize Scooter.  It broke my heart when I found out, because Scooter was a great dog.

After Scooter had been put down, my aunt and uncle found out that the child who had been bitten had been using a sling shot and shooting marbles at Scooter.  One day Scooter had enough and stuck up for himself and he lost his life because of it.

Sadly Scooter and Putz aren’t the only stories about dog’s being wrongfully euthanized.

I wonder if Putz had been a Labrador or a different breed of dog if the outcome would have been the same?  2 Brown Dawgs left a comment about another pitbull who did nothing, and was still euthanized.

It concerns me, because right now the focus is on pitbulls, because a certain population of people have used the dogs wrongly.  But that focus can change.  When I was a kid I remember my father telling me how vicious Doberman Pinschers were, German Shepherds were also considered a “dangerous” breed, but we all know that isn’t the case.

We need to take action now and stop this breed specific crusade, because if we don’t we can’t be sure it won’t be our dog’s breed that’s next.

Book update, my book has 6,231 words.

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