Heart Like a Dog

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

I’m Stumped

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Beautiful Collars

A few months back JoAnn at Sand Spring Chesapeakes did a tutorial on how to make a collar for your dog using Paracord.  I admit I was intrigued because I really love the idea of having a bunch of different collars for different occasions.

While I love doing crafty things, I’m a really visual person and I need to learn by doing.  So while I could read the tutorial, I just couldn’t figure it out, and I left a comment letting JoAnn know as much.

Saturday when I went to the mail box guess what was in there?

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 Yup!  Lookie, lookie who got collars?

Sampson’s collar is green and black, while Delilah’s is blue and purple.  In every day life, Sampson’s collar is green and Delilah’s is purple.  For their ‘dress up’ collars, Sampson’s is black with silver skull and cross bones, while Delilah’s is a purple print.

JoAnn couldn’t have chosen better colors for my dogs.

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Awe Mama, you’re just jelly of my new necklace.

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Why yes, green really does look good on me.

Many, many thanks to you JoAnn for this amazing gift!  We totally love them!!

Walkies

Sampson is still on limited exercise due to the partial ACL tear and quite truthfully, I don’t feel super bad not walking the dogs.   It’s been very cold and random days of crazy snow.

BUT on the weekends I try and get Delilah out and give her a good forty to fifty minute walk in the woods.  It’s also very refreshing for my soul.  To me, there is nothing better than walking in the woods.

I’ve been super impressed with the way Delilah acts on our walks, even though she remains on leash, she’s been very attentive to me, responding when I call her and with the exception of a  little shit snarfing, she’s been amazing.  There was one evening walk where she heeled right next to me without even being told!

Last weekend we ambled down one of the harder trails in our woods.  With the storms we’ve had the last couple of years, we’ve had a number of trees fall down and unless they are seriously blocking the trail, they lay where they fall.

There’s something in our woods that loves to crap on fallen logs.

I’m no poo-ologist, I can only identify dog and deer crap, so I’m at a loss as for what type of poo it is, all I know is whatever it is, it really interests my dogs.

I think it’s taken to crapping on stumps too.

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For a second I thought she was going to climb on the stump, but I called her away and away she came!  And I don’t know why, but I’m particularly taken with this photo. LOL

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You Make Me Laugh – February 2, 2014

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You make me smile (or laugh) the silly, funny, loving things my dogs do that put a smile on my face or a laugh on my lips every day.

Delilah, the brazen way you steal food…..

Feb 2 2014  Makes me laugh.

Backstory:  Late yesterday afternoon Hubby and I ran out to do some errands.  We were a little late getting home and I was rushing around getting the dog’s dinner ready and filling their bones for snack.

As is my habit most days I leave the refrigerator and freezer doors open when I’m going to be in there frequently.  While I’m doing this the dogs are usually hanging around the kitchen.  As I put the filled bones into the freezer and shut the door I noted that Delilah was not in her usual spot.  So I went looking for her.

I found her in the living room where she typically goes to eat her snack….snacking.

On a frozen bone she’d carefully and meticulously removed from the freezer.

Shit My Dog Eats

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Let’s face it.  Being a lab owner requires patience, diligence and above all a sense of humor.  If you didn’t laugh at the crazy shit they do you’d be pulling your hair out.

You know, if you have a lab they’re highly motivated by food.   The first time I took out the clicker and paired it with a green bean, Delilah about lost her mind.  She was so fixated on the green bean, she couldn’t see anything else.  Thankfully we’ve come a long way since that initial pairing, but anyone that knows Delilah knows if she had her druthers she’d eat until she exploded.  Which leaves us with an interesting question.

How do you know your dog has  a problem with food? 

You sit down to make a list of all the shit she’s eaten and you’re like…..I can’t even remember.

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Really?  You’re going there?  After that plate of Nachos you inhaled last night?  Whatever Mama. Remember payback is a bitch and so is Karma and I know there’s a Human Shaming blog hop somewhere in your future.

So here for your reading pleasure….

The crazy shit my dog has eaten:

  • Packing peanuts
  • plastic tooth picks
  • used tissues
  • make-up remover cloths
  • acorns
  • wood bark
  • packing peanuts
  • Jojoba oil
  • Bisquick
  • a container full of vitamins and supplements
  • baker’s chocolate
  • 3/4 pound of butter including wrappers
  • what was left of a bag of potato chips
  • a plate of shaved corned beef
  • pancake batter from the bowl
  • a hot dog out of a pan
  • cooking oil from out of a pan
  • coffee with Bailey’s and cream
  • dog poop

 

Shit she’s tried to eat but been caught or deterred from eating:

  • 7 pounds of frozen chicken necks
  • a can of crisco
  • chicken from the pan
  • a dog treat from Sampson’s mouth
  • a rack of deer ribs
  • a sandwich baggie full of ham
  • an M&M chocolate bar

Of course, there’s always the stuff you THINK she might have eaten.  Like the time I called Hubby at work, practically hysterical because I thought she ate a metal fork.

I found it in the bedroom, she’d licked it good and clean too.

And then there was the time last week when she got up at 2:30 in the morning to dig at the carpet in the den.

food motivated

 

She wouldn’t be deterred and kept returning to the same spot.  When Hubby came home I mentioned it to him and he said he’d dropped the chip bag the night before.    Her lab nose knew that there was a corner of a chip wedged under the heater.

Of course we gave it to her. I mean, she earned it after all.

Can you think of anything I’ve forgotten?  Do you have a Devouring Delilah? How do you manage a food obsessed dog?

Many thanks to Jodi Chick from Kol’s Notes for the awesome blog idea and intro.

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