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Why I Love Thee Award

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Friday we received the “Why I Love Thee” award from our friends at DogDaz.

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As with most awards, there are some rules. Luckily for us, this award only has two!

First thank the one who gave you the award and link to their blog.  Thank you DogDaz. (BTW, she’s got a great post about BSL up on her blog today.)

Then, if you’re an animal, you tell everyone why you love your bipeds (your people). If you’re a biped you tell why you love your animal(s), or why you love animals in general, or anything you like about love.

The Mama, Honestly, I think I could write a book about why I love my dogs.  I don’t think I can sum it up in a paragraph or a sentence but I’ll try. They make me laugh, make me feel better when I’m feeling down and love me unconditionally, but most importantly they make me a better person.

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Sampson, Mama takes me for nice walkies in the woods, she feeds me awesome food, she will pet me whenever I want and she doesn’t make me go to those stupid classes she takes Delilah to.  I love my Mama.

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Delilah, Listen, I have some flaws, we all know that.  I counter surf, pick through garbage, shred tissues, blow off recalls, eat poop.  Well you get the picture, I’m not perfect, but my Mama says I’m perfect for her. 

She named me Delilah Rose and she calls me her Second-Hand Rose because she says some person threw away a treasure. 

Quite simply she’s the best Mama I’ve ever had.

Awwwww.

Well there you have it, it’s a mutual admiration club. 🙂

The second and last bit of the award is to pass it along to another blog that you love.

This past December I participated in the Pet Blogger Gift Exchange hosted by Pamela at Something Wagging This Way Comes.  I was paired with Cokie the Cat.

Cokie 1 You know! Cokie the Cat, the Hollywood Insider!

Cokie and his mom Kristin have been amazing to me in so many ways and I’m really looking forward to meeting her at BlogPaws this year.

My nominee for the Why I Love Thee Award goes to Cokie the Cat and his mom Kristin.

Cokie

If you aren’t already a follower of Cokie’s, pop on over and say hello.

If your pet could talk, what would they say about you?

Delilah-2, Misto Can-0

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Delilah loves oil.

I don’t know why.  Maybe she was a masseuse in her previous life or maybe she scrounged for food at McDonald’s, all I know is she LOVES oil

She’s not discriminating either, she loves all oil.

In this house you cannot put a pot of water with oil for pasta on the stove, because she WILL drink it.

And her love of it is well documented.

Salmon Oil

This was the Salmon oil she stole off the counter and carried into the living room, where she destroyed the can.  On a hot and humid day if I don’t have the air conditioner on, my rug still smells like fish.

Thank you Delilah.

Two years ago for Christmas my youngest daughter sent me some homemade bath scrub.  It was made with sugar and oil.  It’s almost impossible to use, because Delilah loves it so.

Yes, I caught her antics on tape.

(I’m sorry, for some reason I could not get the youtube video to load in the blog, you’ll have to click the link.  Please remember this is a video and you can’t actually help her.  It’s always my instinct to help her as she is so determined.) 🙂

Yesterday I ran out for a couple of hours and forgot to put my Misto can away.

Hubby found it in the living room when he got home.

IMG_4185 It’s her second one.

Delilah – 2, Misto Can – 0

What kind of mischief have you been up to?

This is the Monday Mischief blog hop hosted by Alfie’s Blog, Snoopy’s Dog Blog and My Brown Newfies.

Sleep In Sunday…NOT

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Like most of you, we get up fairly early during the work week.  Hubby’s alarm goes off at 5:30 and mine goes off at 6:00.   Our dogs are used to getting up around 6:00 for a potty break, having a couple of treats and then heading back to bed until breakfast is served, which in our house is at 7:00.

On the weekends, Hubby and I like to sleep in.  Sampson and Delilah don’t differentiate between Saturdays and Sundays, so Hubby and I have devised a system.  I get up with the dogs Saturday morning while he sleeps in and he returns the courtesy on Sunday for me.

Except this weekend Hubby went away.  He left yesterday morning around 3:00 am.  So at 6:00 am yesterday I got up and let the dogs outside to potty, stoked the fireplace and went back to bed.

Until 7:00 at which time I was woken up with some very deep sighs…from Delilah.

Hmmmmmmmpf!

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmpf!

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMFFFFFFFF!

Of course I got up and fed them.

Sometimes I really wish I wore a helmet cam.

You know a little camera on the top of my head so I could record the antics of these two.

They. Are. Funny.

Hysterically funny at times.

So this morning when they woke me up at 6:00, I got up and let them out, stoked the fire, fixed their food, fed them some cookies and went back to bed.

I brought the camera with me so I could record Delilah’s sighing.

Did she accommodate me by sighing?

No.

No she did not.

I spent the next half hour listening to her chew on a bone, while I rubbed Sampson’s ears.

Chewing 1 Don’t mind me, I’m just getting my chew on.

Chewing 2 Stop your whining, I’m a good three feet away from your ear, I’m not that noisy of a chewer.

Rubbies 1 Now that feels good.

Rubbies 2 Oh yes, chin scratches, what’s better than chin scratches at 6:30 am?

Rubbies 3 I’ll stop being so cute if you get up and feed us.

They won.

Do your pets let you sleep in on the weekends?  How do you help them adjust to the weekend vs week day schedule?

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