Heart Like a Dog

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

You Make Me Smile – Easter Sunday 2015

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You make me smile (or laugh) the sweet, funny, loving things my dogs do on a daily basis, that brings a smile to my face or a laugh to my lips.

Delilah, the way you focus on your Kong, waiting for me to take your Easter picture…

Chocolate Lab with Easter Eggs

and then turn your back on me, the second you get it…

Chocolate Lab with Kong

You make me smile.

Sampson had already gone to bed when I wanted to get an Easter photo.  Since it was snack time, I decided to use Delilah’s Kong as the reward.

I probably took between ten and fifteen photos, before I could find one I could actually work with, but we got one!

Happy Easter from all of us at Heart Like a Dog!

Damn I Wish I’d Gotten THAT on Video

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I’ve always joked it would be fun, or at the very least amusing, for Delilah to have her own reality show.  

The road is cold and hard, a nice bit of grass to sit on would be nice.

Where is the Pupparatzi?  Is that them over there?  Do I need to get a head shot for my portfolio?

I mean, imagine capturing the moment she ate 3 full sticks of butter, wrappers and all. 

Who would be able to forget the episode where she ate four cups of packing peanuts, and then had such bad gas and she lay in bed, farting against my leg?

Envision the gasps of horror, the time she cleaned the yard up so well, she came in and vomited, effectively clearing the house.  (It took me days to get the smell out.)

I wish a camera had captured the look on my face, the day she was got so excited when Hubby came home that she jumped like a cat into the front window and sat there waiting, and the way I laughed until the tears ran down my face.

Or how freaked out I was the day she ingested a bunch of my supplements and I had to make her vomit.

Or how surprised I was when she pooped the colored pencils.

Yes, Delilah has always been a wild and crazy dog.  

And while she has calmed down a whole lot in recent years, there are still times when she does something that takes us by surprise and makes us laugh.

Like last night. Hubby and I eat in front of the TV.  The dogs are asked to lie on mats in the living room, but once we release them Delilah runs into the kitchen to provide clean up duty.

From my position on the couch, I could see her, paws up on the counter.  

“Delilah, get off the counter,” I said.

“Delilah, come on!” Hubby called.

In walked Delilah, head down.

She walked past her bed, and right in front of Hubby and I, she spit a butter knife on to the floor.

Damn I wish I’d gotten THAT on video.  Hubby and I laughed and laughed, who could have seen that coming?

Has your dog ever taken you by surprise like that? Would you watch a reality show starring a dog?  

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

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Happy St. Patrick’s day everyone!

Here in the Stone house, St. P day (as I like to call it) is a highly celebrated holiday.  Yes, we are Irish, as my great grandparents immigrated from Portadown Ireland in the early 1900’s.

Green is really not my color, so while I don’t wear the color, I have a couple of accessories I like to use.

Golden Lab in Irish Hat

Is there a treat in this for me?

One is this hat, isn’t it adorable?  I’ve had it for as long as I can remember.

Golden lab with Leprechaun

Dear Dog there HAS to be a treat in this for me.

The other are these furry leprechaun ears, except I can’t wear them for too long because they make my ears hot and itchy.

Of course no St. Patrick’s day would be complete without our traditional Irish meal.  Last night I attempted a gluten-free soda bread and naturally the corned beef and cabbage will be bubbling away.

For me the best part is the left-over corned beef, because that means sometime this week, Hubby will be making his corned beef hash and we will have it for either breakfast or dinner.

That is as long as Delilah doesn’t get it.

About seven years ago Delilah got the left over corned beef.

The dogs had been at daycare all day and I had picked them up on my way home.  Hubby has gotten home earlier and ground up the corned beef.  He had it on a plate sitting on the counter.

The dogs and I came in the door and Hubby and I were standing at the dining room table and Hubby was telling me something when all of a sudden I said, “What’s that noise?”

“Shit, the corned-beef!” Hubby said.

We both rushed into the kitchen and sure enough, there was Delilah paws on the counter polishing off our dinner.

I quickly grabbed Delilah and put her in her crate before Hubby considered eating Delilah for dinner.

Rest assured, we take great care in safe-guarding our food these days.  Especially the corned beef.

Chocolate lab wears Irish hat

Happy St. Patrick’s Day from all of us at Heart Like a Dog.

 

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