Heart Like a Dog

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

The Green Monster….Day Three Hundred, Forty Four

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Hubby and I were chatting in the car.  I mentioned something about Sampson and how cute he was and Hubby said, “He kills me.”

Naturally I was puzzled, “What do you mean?” I asked.

“The way he ignores me,” was his response.

“Oh, he ignores me too,” I brushed it off.

“When I come home, he runs right to the back door to go out, when you come home he tears from wherever he is to the door to greet you.” He said.

It really is cute when he does it.  Sampson has this little “RooooooooRooooooo” he does when he is excited or happy.  I’ve been trying to capture it on video but each time I have the camera ready, he doesn’t do it. 🙁

I tried to appease him, “Well honey, I walk them almost every day, I give them lots of treats.”

“Yeah….I guess,” he said.

But secretly I smiled inside.

Is that wrong?

Seriously how can you not want that smile to be for you?

Tasty Tuesday, Day Three Hundred, Forty Three

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If you’ve been following this blog you know Sampson and Delilah are spoiled.

When I fell in love with Sampson I was determined to do everything in my power to ensure he is with me for a long time to come.

Originally I had him on California Natural for kibble, but once Delilah came to live with us and it was determined that raw food was best for her, that’s what we switched to.

Initially they went on raw to help them lose weight, since we were reducing their food intake and eliminating a bunch of carbohydrates I was concerned they might be hungry.  I supplemented their raw food with some green beans.

Our mentor in the raw food program suggested frozen green beans and advised me to put them through the food processor since dogs don’t digest veggies.  WHAT?  Yes, that is what she said, so every morning I am chopping up green beans.  For a filler.

I also like to give them a little bit of yogurt every day and sometimes a little bit of pumpkin.  I found out quite by accident a couple of weeks back that pumpkin is extremely filling.

Since that time I’ve been stretching my pumpkin and yogurt by making Yumkin.  My word.  I made it up. Stick around and you’ll find I make up lots of words.  Ever heard of Fabu, yeah, that one’s mine too, made it up on vacation in North Carolina in 2004.

Sorry, I digress…. here’s what you need for Yumkin.

1 32 oz container of yogurt ( I use plain because the dogs are on diets, if you want to use this for yourself you will probably want vanilla or at the very least a bit of honey added to it.)

1 28 oz can of pumpkin

1 empty yogurt container

Open the yogurt and place approximately half of the yogurt into the empty container.  Now take the pumpkin and put half of the can into each yogurt container and mix it up.

That’s it.  It’s so easy and the puppies love it.

The pumpkin makes it filling and the yogurt has good bacteria which is excellent for their digestion.

The pumpkin also helps make the yogurt a little bit thicker if you want to use it to top off the end of a Kong. 🙂 

This is the Tasty Tuesday Blog Hop hosted by Kol’s Notes and Sugar the Golden Retriever, you can get your link here.

How Did The Deer Fare?…Day Three Hundred, Forty Two

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Since I had no power Saturday morning I took the dogs for a long walk to help fill my time.

I mentioned to Hubby after the walk, “Branches and limbs continue to fall up there; I know this because I am clearing and moving what I can as I notice them.”

Hubby said, “I’m sure there are, it’s been very windy lately.” His brows furrowed “I wonder how the deer fared?”

I shook my head quickly back and forth, “I don’t know, I wonder where they go?”

Yesterday power was back on so I took the dogs for a long walk so they would be good and tired so I could clean.  🙂

I put their fluorescent vests on because I was planning on taking them on a less traveled (by us anyway) trail.

There is one area where there are deer trails, and you can manage to wind your way through this denser area if you have to, normally I stay clear of it unless my hiking buddy is with me. I prefer to stay on the well traveled paths. 🙂  Sampson normally pays pretty close attention to this dense area, his head is high with his ears alert.

Since Delilah is attached to me by the 30 footer, she doesn’t get the opportunity to run off nearly as much as she would like.

Normally they are spotting chipmunks and squirrels, I know this because they typically don’t go very far and tend to stop and sniff right around a tree base or a rock.

Yesterday Sampson snapped to attention and dashed off into the woods; normally I let him get a bit of a run then call him back, but he wasn’t coming; then I saw the white tail of the deer.  Delilah and I waited on the path, with me calling him intermittently until he came back.

A short time later he took off again in about the same spot and I thought things were cool until I heard the sound of something large scrambling through the brush, and there was another flash of white tail.

Today on our walk Sampson chased a deer again, in a different spot. I think we are safe in telling Hubby that at least one deer survived Alfred in our neck of the woods. 😉

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