Heart Like a Dog

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

You Make Me Laugh – October 9, 2016

By

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 get so excited when you see “someone”, and then get SO disappointed when you realize “who” you’ve seen…

Golden Lab and Scarecrow

You make me laugh.

This happened last week. The day before we’d seen the neighbor out decorating her house for Halloween. The next day, Sampson was walking up the hill and his body language told me he saw someone. When I looked ahead, I knew right away what it was. But he didn’t.

When he got to the house, he realized it wasn’t a person after all.

Have your dogs ever mistaken something for someone?

The Dog Ate the Play-Doh, But Left the Cheese

By

Delilah’s a lunatic.

You really wanna go there Mama?

Name calling. Really Mama?

Some days I laugh on the spot at her lunacy and other days…well other days, I have to wait to laugh, or at least wait until after I’ve spoken to the vet to be sure she’s going to be okay.

Last week I picked the grandkids up from school and brought them to my house. The Boy promptly went downstairs to get away from his sister, while the Girl, stayed upstairs with me.

Like most good Grandma’s, I have some books and toys set aside for them. The Girl went digging about and came up with a small Play-Doh set. “Can I play with this?” she asked, holding it up to show me.

“Of course you can.” I replied and set her up on top of the pool table with her new found treasure. It had been a while since anyone had played with it, and the Play-Doh was quite hard. I tried warming it up a bit and manipulating it with my hands so she could at least make a few cutouts.

After a short time, she decided she was done with the Play-Doh and went off to do something else. I was looking for a show for her to watch on TV, when I heard a slurping noise.

“Shit!” I screamed. The Girl looked at me (thankfully she didn’t ask me what shit meant, although on Saturday she did ask about bad ass, but that’s another story.)

“What?” she asked, without looking away from the TV.

“Delilah ate the Play-Doh. Time to call the vet.”

Thankfully, Play-Doh is non-toxic. A bunch of dogs or kids must have ingested a lot of Play-Doh, because Play-Doh (thankfully) spells that shit out right on the box. “NON-TOXIC.” (BTW, I discovered that while I was ON the phone with the vet’s office.)

The vet thought there might be a high salt content in the Play-Doh, and that Delilah might be thirsty later on, a fact I reminded her of as she was slurping up an entire bowl of water later that evening.

As I was cleaning up from dinner, I went around the back side of the breakfast bar and found some hard, dry cheese that was somehow missed in the cleanup from Mom’s birthday dinner.

Yeah, the dog ate the Play-Doh, but left the cheese.

Go figure.

 

You Make Me Smile – October 2, 2016

By

You make me smile (or laugh), 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.

Delilah, when you lie next to me in bed, and put your head on my arm, and wrap your paw around my wrist…

There is no sweeter chocolate in the world.

There is no sweeter chocolate in the world.

You make me smile.

Typically, Delilah is not a snuggler. She will lie next to me in bed and sometimes she will even lie on or against me while I pet her. But it’s a very rare occasion when she lies on me and falls asleep.

This happened the other night and it just melted my heart to look down and see that sweet, chocolate face, and of course, it made me smile.

Do you have sleepy snugglers (and please tell me why spell check insists on changing snugglers to smugglers…) or independents?

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...