Heart Like a Dog

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

Christmas Came Early

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As a  dog lover, never mind dog blogger, you are often exposed to the unsavory aspects of animal welfare.  Sometimes I can’t read them, the stories are so awful, and then there are the other stories.  The stories where good triumphs and everybody wins.

Yesterday was such a day for me.  The company I work for has their main office in Sanford, FL.  I love the gals in the home office and we have a great time every time I get down their way.  Yesterday afternoon I received an e-mail from my friend Di.

Jodi, this is my Christmas Present.  I rescued him on Saturday.  He is a PooChi or ChiPoo…Poodle and Chihuahua (spelling?) mix.  He was covered with urine and fesces (one picture of him like that) and was just getting ready to go thru the doors at the Human Society when I walked up.  The lady asked me if I was looking for a dog and I said I was….thus the story of Charlie begins.  He is six months old and has spent most of his life in a crate and has also been abused.  I immediately took him to the groomer and had him cleaned up.  I took him home and he is the sweetest dog.  He took to the family and the family took to him.  It was his lucky day because he is already spoiled after only two days in my house.  How can people be so cruel to these helpless little things! 

Meet Charlie

Christmas came early for Di and Charlie.

Isn’t he a cutie?  I’m so happy for Di and Charlie.  Bless you Di, I hope you and Charlie have many happy years together and thank you for sharing Charlie and his story with me. 

Christmas came early for Charlie and Di, can it come early for you too?

Welcome to Day 9 of the #Advent4Dogs Giveaway hosted by Kol’s Notes, Dogthusiast, Heart Like a Dog, NEPA Pets & Wag’n’Woof Pets. Today’s give away is sponsored by CloudStar.  Enter now for your chance to win a Treat Prize Pack (different in US/Canada due to import export laws) Open to: US/Canada.

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Find the Beauty

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Since Sampson’s ACL surgery our walks have gone from once per day to twice per day.  In order to accomplish this our first walk of the day is around 6 am.  

This time of year, it’s still dark at 6 am.  And some mornings I have a hard time dragging my butt out of bed.  But I know Sampson can’t do long walks anymore, I know that Sampson and Delilah both love their walk and I also know how beneficial it for me, to get out and exercise.

As hard as it is sometimes to get up and out in the cold, there are some rewards that go with it.  

Usually we don’t encounter a lot of dogs or people, oh and of course there is this.

A little beauty to start the day.

The beauty of the sunrise.

Of course, exercise and diet are the best way to make sure you and your dog(s) enjoy as many walks as possible.  But if that’s not enough and you’re looking for a little inspiration, see below.

Welcome to Day 8 of the #Advent4Dogs Giveaway hosted by Kol’s Notes, Dogthusiast, Heart Like a Dog, NEPA Pets & Wag’n’Woof Pets. Today’s give away is sponsored by Author, Peggy Frezon.

Enter now for your chance to win a a copy of Dieting with My Dog and The Dieting With My Dog Guide to Weightloss & Maintenance. Contest open to US/Canada (Except QC and where prohibited by law.)

Today’s trivia question can be found at Wag ‘N Woof Pets.

 What kinds of motivation do you find, when you’re having trouble doing something?

The Dreaded Christmas Card – Barks and Bytes

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I don’t know about you, but trying to get my pups to pose nicely together for a Christmas card is somewhat challenging.

I’m not a big holiday decorator.  I figure, you spend hours setting up the tree and decorating it, packing decorations up so you can add the Christmas decorations and then a month later, you have to take everything down.  One year I had Hubby put lights on the house and when it came time to take them down I said, “Why bother, you’ll only have to put them up again next year.”  So we left them up.

BUT this year. This year I found the cutest decorated lamp posts at the Home Depot and couldn’t resist buying them!

Siriusly, check this lamp out.

It is a lamp post or the entrance to Narnia?

It is a lamp post or the entrance to Narnia?

I was so excited to get these up in front of the house that I had Hubby set them up on Sunday.  And then brought the dogs outside for a Christmas card photo shoot.

Except:

  • I’m not a photographer.
  • I forgot about the front door being reflective glass.
  • I didn’t bring anything out to cover the ugly concrete.
  • I didn’t frame the pictures well and got my house number in most of them.
Well that's crappy.

Well that’s crappy. The door is open, the house number is showing and look at all that ugly concrete.

Not bad, except one lamp is cut off.

Not bad, except for the ugly concrete and the bare ground and door reflection.   At least they’re both looking at the camera.

I decided.  Let’s try some single shots.

Sampson isn’t always comfortable sitting anymore so I thought let’s try him lying down.

Remind me again why I'm lying on this cold concrete?

Remind me again why I’m lying on this cold concrete?

Poor Sampson, he looks so sad, and of course there’s that ugly concrete and the door reflection.  Yet the house number is almost covered up.  Maybe if I keep trying I’ll get a decent photo by Christmas.

Next I tried a single shot of Delilah.

Really? You know I don't like lying down on command.

Really? You know I don’t like lying down on command.

Oh Delilah.  She hates being told to lie down.  Notice how stiffly she’s lying there.  And  her expression…well her expression tells me she thinks she’s in trouble.

I finally decided to try and work with an online photo editor and see what I could come up with.  Here’s the finished product.

Damn pic monkey! I need a premiere account to add a hat to the snowman.

Damn pic monkey! I need a premiere account to add a hat to the snowman.

Cropped the photo and took most of the concrete out, cut the house number off added the snowman to cover the reflection in the door and frosted the edges.  Not bad, eh?

So why then can I not order the cards?  Do you struggle with things like this?  Is it trivial to be so concerned about the Christmas card picture?

Have you been checking out the #Advent4Dogs?  

 

Advent Day 4

Welcome to Day 4 of the #Advent4Dogs Giveaway hosted by Kol’s Notes, Dogthusiast, Heart Like a Dog, NEPA Pets & Wag’n’Woof Pets. Today’s give away is sponsored by The Company of Animals. Enter now for your chance to win a 2 Mix Max Puzzles.

Today’s trivia question is hosted by Wag ‘N Woof Pets.

 

Heart Like a Dog

Welcome to Thursday’s Barks and Bytes Blog hop hosted by 2 Brown Dogs and Heart Like a Dog. The Barks and Bytes hop is for anything at all and all bloggers are welcome. You don’t have to be a dog blog to join. For new blog hoppers, a blog hop is list of links that is shared on multiple blogs. In order to be fair to all participants Linda and I ask you to please use the linky list. If your blog does not support a linky list, please link back to either Linda or I.

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