Heart Like a Dog

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

Pad-foot

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Delilah is pure Labrador. If you don’t have a Labrador in your life, I should tell you, they are excellent time keepers. Particularly when it comes to food.

Delilah is a shining example of Labrador time keeping skills. She knows exactly when she gets anything. Heart meds (in liverwurst) in at 6:30 am, breakfast at 7:00, banana chips at 7:30 when mom leaves for work, heart med liverwurst at 5:00 when mom comes home from work, dinner at 7:00, snack at 9:00, heart med liverwurst at 10:30.  If she were a Hobbit, she’d have names like breakfast, second breakfast, morning tea….etc. Thankfully, she’s not a Hobbit, but the best part is, she doesn’t talk, because God knows, I’d be drinking a lot more than whiskey in my coffee if she did.

Since she can’t talk (thank you, Jesus!) she does the next best thing. She sits in front of you and stares and if you get up, she’s right up your ass, making sure she doesn’t miss a thing. When she’s up your ass, she walks in such a way, that you can hear her walking. I call this sound, Pad-foot.

Sampson and Delilah get a stuffed, frozen Kong every night around 9:00 pm. It’s a simple concoction, stuffed with pineapple and frosted with canned pumpkin. I’ve had people ask me if it’s messy and to that I answer, “Yes, which is why we make the dogs eat the Kong on a throw rug.”

The rugs are old and discolored. I DO wash them every week, but the pumpkin stains, so they just look dirty. 🙂

Delilah is really good about putting her Kong on her rug. If for some reason she doesn’t use the rug, all you have to say is, “Put it on the rug,” and she will pick it up and move it.

Chocolate Lab with Kong

Do not disturb.

 

Delilah has a particular spot she typically has her Kong on, but there are nights where Sampson throws a wrench (figuratively, not literally. I mean, if I could teach a dog to throw a wrench, I’d be pretty rich) 🙂 in the works by laying too close to where Delilah would typically be, so I end up moving the rug.

Of course, there are always the nights where I’ve washed the rug that day, so it’s not in its normal place.

It is times like that, when I need to rearrange the rugs, that Delilah can be a real tax. Since she already KNOWS it’s snack time, she’s on high alert. When she sees me tidying or moving the treat rug, she can’t contain herself. She’s here, she’s there, she’s EVERYWHERE and I basically become a football player, trying to block her from standing on the rug while I’m trying to fix it.

I cannot laugh about it when it’s happening, in fact, I’m usually cussing, while Hubby’s usually laughing.

But hey, at least someone’s laughing.

What did your pet do to make you laugh this week?

Cabin Fever

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Can a dog have cabin fever?

I believe they can and I present my case below.

Within the last couple of weeks, a certain Labrador has been getting into some mischief.

Two weeks ago, she decided the dog couch is a giant stuffy that needs to be destroyed. More than once, I’ve come home to find bits of the couch on the floor. I’ve taken to wrapping the cushion in two towels, with hopes of stopping her destruction.

I’ve caught her checking in the sink to see if there were any goodies in there for her.

Hmmm….

Last week she casually pulled my empty paper plate off the table next to me. She’s ripped up an empty oyster cracker baggie (don’t look at me, Hubby left it on the floor). And one day, I found a little wooden apple on the floor. I’m not actually sure where she got that.

My final piece of evidence….Last night I’m pretty sure she ate some butter (including the wrapper) that Hubby left on the counter, while he popped out of the kitchen for a minute.

It’s not like she’s not getting walks, because she is. It’s not like her walks are shorter, because they aren’t.

I can only come to the conclusion that it’s cabin fever. Or maybe it’s the shorter days, and the fact that most of our walks take place in the dark.

What do you think? Have you been experiencing any unusual behavior in your house of late?

The Watcher Dog

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Because Sampson and Delilah have different exercise requirements and get walked separately, one of them is always home waiting.

Most mornings Delilah gets up with me, waits while I prepare foods and once I’m done, she heads back to snuggle in my bed.

When Sampson and I get back, she’s either lying in the Dog Daddy’s lap, or she’s walking towards the door from the general area of the bedroom.

I’ve always wondered HOW she knows when we’re on our way back, and just assumed it was that she heard us somehow.

Last week I found out the truth.

My sister was down for the weekend and spent Friday night with us. Saturday morning, I walked Sampson while my sister made coffee.  When we got back, my sister spilled the beans on Delilah.

Delilah did not go back to bed, instead, she sat at the door on small deck and WATCHED for us.

Not an actual picture of her watching, but adorable none-the-less.

Is that not the cutest thing, ever?

It made me smile just hearing about it. What did your pet do to make you smile this week?

You make me laugh, or smile. The sweet, funny, loving things dogs do that make us laugh or smile.

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