Heart Like a Dog

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

Follow-Up Friday

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For those new to the blog, my follow-up Friday provides me with an opportunity to update or revise a post from the previous week.

You know sometimes you post about something and you need an update but it doesn’t warrant a whole blog.  Or sometimes someone made a comment that really resonated with you.  Yup, Follow-Up Friday baby! :-)

Lab Adoption Event – Author’s Note

I did request an update from my friend, asking how many applications were received because of this event, but so far I haven’t heard back from her.

I will be seeing her tomorrow though and hopefully will be able to extract the information from her.  (Doesn’t that sound evil?)

It Takes A Blogville To Raise Delilah, It’s Been A Great Monday, The Post Where Delilah Amazes Me – Author’s Note

This three posts had a similar theme, so I decided to lump them all together.

Yes I threw it out there asking for suggestions for help with Delilah and you responded, I thank you and appreciate each and every comment.

I also realized I was missing a prime opportunity to work on her stays.  Every morning while I’m getting ready for work the dogs come in the bathroom.  Sampson will normally just lie down on the floor, but Delilah is constantly underfoot.

I started placing her in a down and telling her to stay.  It’s a great way to work on her stay since I am usually not more than 3 to 5 feet away from her.  Since the best way to perfect a stay (from what I’ve read) is to do it in baby steps, I think this is helping her.

I did enroll Delilah in the obedience class I mentioned and I signed up for their newsletter so as soon as they schedule the nosework class I can sign her up for that too.

In the meantime, they have stayed out of daycare this week and may stay out for a while.

I have been walking them every day and I feel she is doing pretty good on the walks. I will continue to bring her to drop in agility class when my schedule allows.

Last night she amazed me in a good way and this morning she was……Delilah.  Running and dancing all over the place as I tried to prepare her breakfast.

I’m not worried about it, we shall get there.  She has already come so very far and I am 100% positive she can go the rest of the way.

I’d like to end with one of my favorite quotes.  Wiki answers attributes the quote to John Lennon.

“Everything will be okay in the end, if it’s not okay, it’s not the end.”

But this is.

The end of the blogpost I mean.

We hope you rocked your week.

The Post Where Delilah Amazes Me

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My Delilah is a constant source of amazement to me.  As most of you know it’s not always a good amazement either. 🙂

I had a post all formulated for tonight, in fact most of it was already written, all I had to do was tweak it just a bit and it would have been ready.

Delilah had a different post in mind for me.

Tonight Delilah was amazing and in a good way.  I’m so darn proud of her I just felt the need to share it with all of you.

Our walk.

Tonight during our walk we encountered Tia (the GSD) and her moms while they were taking a walk.  I heard and saw them before they approached us.  We were on a side path so I had Sampson and Delilah sit and wait while the Tia and her moms passed.

Delilah sat perfectly.  She didn’t strain at the leash, she wasn’t barking or lunging, she simply sat and watched as they walked by.

Our Dinner

Normally Hubby and I fix our dinners and bring them into the living room to eat while we watch TV.  Sampson and Delilah usually lay on the rug in front of the couch.  Well okay, Sampson usually lies on the rug, Delilah may or may not, depending on her frame of mind.

We always used to laugh at Sampson because we would take the dishes out of the cabinet and he would go lay down on his place.

Lately we’ve been kind of lax about them waiting in the living room, so they’ve both been hanging around the kitchen while we ready our dinner.   Judge me if you will, I know it’s bad.

Tonight I set my plate on the counter and went to use the bathroom and looked over, there was Delilah sitting on the rug in the living room.

WITHOUT BEING TOLD.

After Dinner

After dinner, Hubby and Sampson went outside for something.  Delilah sat in the doorway of the kitchen watching as I cleaned up.  Since I had a light load of dishes I decided to clean out the fridge.  I had a plastic shopping bag on the counter and dumped a bunch of food in there and put the dishes in the sink.  Since I was taking it out to the trash I decided to scoop Bob’s box as well.

I left the food on the counter and went and scooped the box, came back out and she was still sitting there.  She and I took the bag out on the porch to toss down to Hubby and then we went back inside so I could finish the dishes.  She laid down in the doorway.  This is practically unheard of in our house.

This crazy, in your face all the time, can’t behave herself dog, was spot on tonight.

When I was done in the kitchen I said, “Delilah you were so awesome, I’m throwing you a party!”  I gave her some special treats, lots of rubbies and danced around the kitchen with her.

She really does amaze me sometimes.

W.T.F./WOO HOO Wednesday

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My W.T.F. Wednesday is pretty light in terms of quantity but the W.T.F. content  is strong.

In case you haven’t figured it out, I’m a little behind in news and slightly scattered about writing topics down to save for W.T.F. posts.  Which is why a BIG W.T.F. should have gone out last week to the  Maryland Court of Appeals for ruling that all pit bull type breeds are “inherently dangerous.”

Yes, you read that right.  America’s dog is labeled inherently dangerous by a panel of people suffering from HUMAS (Head Up My Ass Syndrome.)  That’s like saying all 52-year-old red heads write dog blogs.

What?

Exactly.

So hey Maryland COA, siriusly, W.T.F. is wrong with you?

Punish the deed, not the breed.  Don’t think your setting any precedents here, dog lovers united will not tolerate this.  Take your head out of your ass and look around you.  Go talk to someone who rescues pit bulls, check out the Humane Society.  Some of the sweetest dogs on the planet are….yes pit bulls.

I’d tell you to open your eyes but with your head so far up your ass you’d only see your stomach anyway.

Turning from the stupidity of the Maryland Court of appeals, I found some Woo Hoo news about animals today!

The County of Frederick, Maryland is defying the Maryland COA and refuses to “Profile pit bulls into extinction.”  Instead they will address issues of aggression on an individual level.

See, not everyone with the authority to make decisions in Maryland has their head up their ass.

And yes, there are already animal activists asking the Governor to overturn the ruling.

In the ‘I’m proud to live in CT’ news, we had three great pieces of legislation pass the house last night!

H. B. No. 5409 “To facilitate the reimbursement to consumers for veterinary bills incurred for the care of sick dogs or cats adopted from pet shops, to clarify certain pet shop penalty statutes and to prohibit pet shops from selling dogs and cats obtained from substandard domestic animal mills. ”

CT pet stores are you reading this?  You can’t get your animals from mills anymore!!

H. B. No. 5446 “To allow pounds to complete and retain vouchers for the purpose of payments to veterinarians for the sterilization and vaccination of certain dogs and cats and to require initial training and continuing education for animal control officers.”

I’m not 100% sure I understand what this means, but I’m hoping it means when someone adopts an animal from the shelter or pound they will need to pay the spay/neuter/vaccination fee up front and the pound will follow-up to ensure the animal is altered and vaccinated.

I do know it will give animals control officers the information they need which should help make their jobs easier.

H.B. No. 5289 “To classify a second or subsequent offense of cruelty to an animal as a felony punishable by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars or imprisonment of not more than five years, or both. ”

While I’d like to see this type of punishment levied on first time offenders, I can settle for this.  I would like to see (as Jan suggested) an animal abuser registry similar to the ones for sex offenders.

I found out last Saturday that the Labs 4 Rescue group keeps their own registry and I imagine they are not the only ones.

Did you come across anything this week that made you shake your head and say “W.T.F.”  or did you see more of the jump for joy and scream Woo Hoo news?

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