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Get Your Hustle On

June 21, 2013 By Jodi

I don’t know about you, but I love a good challenge.  Not the crazy challenge like tugging with your dog for an hour (you try tugging with a 90 pound lab, I spent more time on my ass than I do at my job and that’s saying something.)  No I like the type of challenge that pushes me to do a bit more than I normally do, which is why I jumped at the chance to participate in K-9 Kamp this year.

This year’s K-9 Kamp was “Do More.” 

Peggy’s e-mail said, “Do half an hour more than you’re doing now, two to three times per week.”

Jodi’s said, “Do half an hour more than you’re doing now, three to four times per week.”

I listened to Peggy.

Last night we sat around the campfire and held paws and sang Kamp songs, and reflected on the last three weeks of Kamp.

campfire Okay, it was really me, holding their paws, they could have cared less.

There’s a lot to consider when taking up exercising, especially when you’re doing it with your pet.

Sampson and Delilah are older dogs, 9 and 7 1/2 respectively, they walk every day and maintain a healthy weight.  The challenge was to do more than we were currently doing.  I tried to do this in two ways.

The first was to increase our walking time. Our walks during the week typically last between 25 minutes to half an hour.  Since our park is fairly small we can normally get to the entrance from just about anywhere within the park in five to ten minutes.  Normally at the 25 minute mark I head for the entrance.

To add some times to our walk, I rounded up.  Let’s say we got to the park at 5:41, I would note the time as 5:45 and not turn for home until we’d actually hit 6:15.  In this manner I added anywhere from five to fifteen minutes to each of our week day walks.

On the weekends I wouldn’t turn for home until we’d hit the forty five minute mark.

I also tried to add a bit more intensity to our walks.  The great thing about our trail system is the difficulty of the trails.  We have easy trails and hard trails.  Normally during the week we stay on the easy trails, leaving the harder ones for the weekend.  But this was K-9 Kamp and we were supposed to challenge ourselves, so we made sure to hit the harder trails four and five times per week.

We also used the obstacles we encountered to challenge ourselves.

No more sneaking under the fallen tree!

No more sneaking under the fallen tree!

 

 

Why do you keep saying, "Up, down, up down?"

Why do you keep saying, “Up, down, up down?”

 

No, I would have to say our biggest obstacle this year was the weather.  The first weekend it was so hot and humid the dogs barely wanted to walk for half an hour.  On those days I really had to limit their walks, and make sure to stop for water breaks as well as making sure the little pool was full for when we got home.  Those days we kept our walks to 30 minutes.

Ah, a nice refreshing dip.

Ah, a nice refreshing dip.

 

The next weekend it rained. We had a lot of rain.  Normally speaking Sampson and Delilah don’t mind walking in the rain, but we had a couple of really bad, rainy days.  When my dog stands in the back of the car and looks towards the park and you can see him debating getting out of the car, you know it’s crappy weather!

We did get wet a few times.

We did get wet a few times.

 

We had so much rain in the month of June that by the 15th we were already at 75% more rain than we normally get in the month of June!  This made for some really wet areas on our walks and some of the paths actually had water running down them.

Sampson didn't mind, he took the opportunity to cool off in some of the running water.

Sampson didn’t mind, he took the opportunity to cool off in some of the running water.

 

Zoomies count too, right?

When I first got the challenge I thought, how can I do more?  I mean we walk every day.  But a few minutes here and there add up.  We added about 2 hours more per week to our walking routine.

Which I think is pretty darn good.

How about you?  Did you take the challenge?  How did you do?

Many thanks to Jodi Chick and Peggy Frezon for including us as a featured blogger in the K-9 Kamp Challenge.  Don’t forget to visit our hosts to share your Kamp experiences and enter in a chance to win an awesome prize valued at over $200!

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This ‘N That Thursday – June 20, 2013

June 20, 2013 By Jodi

Today we join our friends at the 2 Brown Dawgs blog for This ‘N That Thursday.  You know, This ‘N That Thursday, A little of this and a little of that and everything in between…

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog

Many thanks to our friends at the 2 Brown Dawgs Blog.

Lyme Disease

Yesterday I wrote about the day my grandchildren spent with me.  It was a warm day and my granddaughter had her shirt off.  As I sat next to her during dinner, I noticed a tiny black mark surrounded by lightly irritated skin on her side.

I said to Hubby, “I think she has a tick.”

Of course he went and got our tick key and the rubbing alcohol and removed it.  He said, “I don’t think it’s a tick, it came off too easy.”

I put some antibiotic cream on the spot and told my daughter to keep an eye on it.  Last Thursday my granddaughter went to the Dr. because the spot had grown to the size of a quarter.  The Dr. said it was a spider bite.

Bullshit I thought, spiders don’t attach themselves to your skin.  (Unless they’re vampire spiders and then I have no idea what they do.)

Saturday the mark had taken on the distinction of what is commonly known as a target. The Dr. diagnosed Lyme Disease and my granddaughter is currently on a three week course of antibiotics.

Site of tick bite.

Site of tick bite.

 

The Dr. said my granddaughter should be fine.  But it will always be something in the back of our minds when she isn’t feeling well.

According to the CDC, a tick has to be attached for 36 to 48 hours in order to transmit the Lyme Disease.  This tick was tiny, about the size of the head of a pin.

Just a warning, make sure you check yourself, your kids, and pets.

We’re very lucky we caught this early.

Sampson has a lump.   It’s under his right arm.  About two years ago I found a lump on his side, we went to the vet and had it aspirated, it turned out to be a fatty deposit, which is fairly common in Labradors.

I called to schedule an appointment.  My vet recently had elbow surgery and isn’t seeing dogs over 40 pounds until the first week in July.  The other two vets in the practice that I would normally see are on vacation next week, so I decided to wait until the first week in July.  Of course I’ll keep my eye on it and if it begins to grow I will bring him in and see whoever is there.

I’m praying (and I’d appreciate any prayers you want to throw our way too) that it is just another fatty deposit.  I will keep you posted.

Mr. Linky

A couple weeks ago I wrote about the problem I had with the Linky Tool.  What happened was someone was joining the blog hop and beat me and the co-host at getting their link hooked up.  I went to my Linky Tool dashboard and saw, manage links in hop, so I clicked on it and moved the link to third position.  The problem was that everyone who joined the hop, pushed this persons post further and further down the list, so they were always last.

I finally wrote to Mr. Linky again and asked about managing the links and he told me I couldn’t do it.

Um…..sorry Mr. Linky but clearly I did it.  You may want to look at your product again.

As of right now I’m almost positive I won’t be renewing my subscription with Mr. Linky.

Follow-up Friday

Follow-up Friday is being co-hosted this week by Kari from Hound Girl.  She will have the link up and on her blog tomorrow morning.  We will be participating in K-9 Kamp so our Follow-Up Friday post will go up on Saturday again.

If anyone is interested in co-hosting, it’s not that hard and I’d love to share the linky love. 🙂

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What Did You Do To Her?

June 19, 2013 By Jodi

A couple of weeks back my son-in-law went out-of-town for the weekend and I told my daughter I’d take the grandchildren for the day.

My grandson is five.  He’s just getting into the video games and me, I’m a big fan of Mario, so I figured let’s see what he can do.  Turns out pairing a competitive player (me) with a kid who only wants to make his character run fast and burn his ass on lava isn’t a great combination.  Still I tried.

Me: Grandson we’re going into the castle now, do you have this?

He nods his little head.

Me: Let me hear it.

Grandson: I got this Mimi.

I can get pretty involved with Mario, so it’s probably not a good thing, kids + dogs + Mimi playing Mario.  We were all in the same room, so I figured it was okay.

Mostly my dogs just avoid the kids if they get too grabby or make them uncomfortable and I am right there explaining to the kids the best way to interact.

But I was distracted by Mario and the demon who kept throwing Luigi into the lava.

All of a sudden I heard “WOOF!” and my granddaughter started screaming.  I looked over, she was sitting on the floor in front of Delilah.

Jesus!  Please don’t let her have bit her was my first thought.

I snatched my granddaughter up and checked her over, no blood or marks.  Thank you Jesus!  I hugged her.  “What happened?”

She’s two and a half but can carry on a conversation, “Yiyah WOOF.”

“She barked in your face, huh? That scared you didn’t it?”

She nodded her little blond head. Then being the caring grandmother that I am I said, “What did you do to her?”

Blue eyes looked at me.  “Did you do something to her?”

“I pull tail.”

“Well there you go, she doesn’t like that.  You should never pull the doggie’s tail.”

See how I roll?

What?  I don't like my tail pulled.  You wouldn't either.

What? I don’t like my tail pulled. You wouldn’t either.

 

Actually, I think it’s highly doubtful that she actually PULLED her tail, I’m sure she reached for it, but Delilah has a thing about people coming at her feet and I suspect it was more of my granddaughter reaching and Delilah responding.

It was my fault.  I should have been watching my granddaughter instead of playing video games.  There are so many things that COULD have happened and I’m thankful they didn’t.

Still it was a good lesson for me.  Even if I’m right in the same room, I should never take my eyes off the prize.  The stakes are a lot higher than a burned ass.

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