Heart Like a Dog

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

Which Way Do We Go?

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Lately Sampson hasn’t been responding to me when we encounter people or other dogs on our walks.  This means his off-leash privileges have been revoked.  There are still some times and some days when I let him off leash a bit, but for the most part he’s on the long leash the same as Delilah.

I hear too many stories of dogs being lost or stolen and I’d rather not take the chance.  The kicker was the day he ran off, ignoring me completely and followed a couple of fellow hikers.

Sorry Sampson, that doesn’t fly with the Mama.

As those of you who walk more than one dog know, multiple dogs can prove to be challenging.  I’ve been searching for a leash coupler, but the places around me are out of stock on the 24″.  I have found it on-line, but the shipping options suck.  I think it’s ridiculous to pay $10 to ship a $5 leash, especially when I just shipped 95 calendars all for around $5 each.  One of my local stores is ordering a coupler for me but in the meantime, I walk two dogs and deal with the challenges.

What? You've never heard the tale of the two stubborn labs?

What? You’ve never heard the tale of the two stubborn labs?

 

At times (depending on my mood) this can be frustrating for me.  But not this day.  This day I chose to find the humor in it.  I took the photo and then I waited.  I waited to see who would move first.  And I thought, I can work with this.

Here’s where you come in.  Remember those Dogs of Blogville Calendars?

 

In order to get the cheapest price, I ordered a few extra.  So I thought, let’s do something fun and give one of those away.

Are you up for the challenge?

In the top photo, we have Sampson to the left side of the tree and Delilah to the right.  In the comments tell me who turned back to me first and which path we ended up taking.  Don’t worry, everyone who comments will go in the drawing for the calendar, you don’t need to have guessed correctly to win.

Random.org will choose the winner, which I’ll announce in next week’s Thanksgiving edition of This ‘N That Thursday. I’ll cut off entries Tuesday night at midnight EST.

Ready. Set. Which Way Do We Go?

BLOGVILLE ROCKS This ‘N That Thursday

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Today we join our friends at 2 Brown Dawgs and Ruckus the Eskie for This ‘N That Thursday.

Calendar Fundraiser

By now most of you in the continental United States should have received your calendars.  (My apologies to my Canadian and international friends, I sent them the quickest way I could.) They came out awesome didn’t they?  And it’s all thanks to Julie at the Daily Dog Blog!

Thank you Julie, you rock!

So here’s the final dilly.  After collecting all monies, including donations (thank you Donna) I ended up ordering 100 calendars.  Minus shipping and processing (and miscellaneous PayPal fees) I was left with $1,261.19!!

Of course it’s bitter sweet as you know because Benny lost his fight just a few weeks ago.

December - Benny and Lily - Two French Bulldogs

December – Benny and Lily – Two French Bulldogs

 Run fast, run free Benny.

I just want to take a minute to thank you all, each and every one of you for supporting this fundraiser, for entering, voting, promoting and purchasing.  I wish I could hug each and every one of you!

You all rock!!

Run Fast, Run Free Norman

On another sad note, Norman of Sand Spring Chesapeakes (Mr. August in our calendar) went to the BRIDGE on Tuesday night.  His mom, JoAnn has a beautiful tribute to him on her blog today, but make sure to grab a box of tissues before you head over.  I literally bawled my make-up off.

August - Norman - Sand Spring Chesapeakes

August – Norman – Sand Spring Chesapeakes

 Run fast, run free Norman.

Custom Portrait Giveaway

So happy news in the beginning of the blog, sad news in the middle.  Let’s end on a happy shall we?

Do you have any portraits of your pets?  Personally I don’t, although I do have a couple of pictures that were printed to look like paintings.  And I love them!

I would also love a custom painting of my two favorite pupsters and so I’m going to enter a contest to win a custom painting.  And the best part is, you can too!!

So there’s this artist, AJ Emm (go ahead look at it, you know you want to) and she does these amazing paintings.  Check out the one she did of Koly and Felix from Kol’s Notes.

ANYHOO, Kol’s Notes is having a give-away of one of these custom paintings!  Siriusly you guys, there are only 47 more shopping days until Christmas.  If you aren’t giving out calendars, have you considered a custom portrait?

And if you don’t want a portrait of your fur baby (really?  WTF is wrong with you?) she does people portraits too.

If you order a portrait and you win?  AJ will refund your money or give you a second portrait at no charge!

Amazeballs, right?

BUT WAIT, there’s more.

How about a 25% discount on a custom portrait?  I know right? It feels like Christmas is already here!

You won’t see this discount code floating around just anywhere.  There are only a few of us bloggers who have it.

What is it?

Oh yeah, you need that right?  So to get your 25% discount, you need to type UNICORN when you purchase.   Why UNICORN  you ask?  Because UNICORNS rock!

Enter here.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Follow-Up Friday

I’m super excited to let you know that I have a newbie co-hostess joining me for Follow-Up Friday’s blog hop tomorrow.  It’s none other than Emma from My GBGV Life! Tomorrow is the day I highlight and answer comments, so be sure to tune in.

So I’ve Got This Paypal Button on my Blog

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January - Teach - Tails of Teach

January – Teach – Tails of Teach

 

You remember Teach?  He’s Mr. January in the 2014 Dogs of Blogville Calendar.  You can look at Teach every single day next January when you purchase the Dogs of Blogville Calendar.

Let’s cut right to the chase, you know technology challenges me.  Last year I did the calendars as a combination of e-mails and paypal and a spreadsheet.  This year since we had so many more entries, I anticipate a larger demand for calendars so I looked for an easier way to manage sales.

Last week I threw the plea out on Facebook and Kari sent me a link to a plug in.   Sweet, I downloaded it but that was where I bottomed out.

I curse you plug ins!  And you too widgets!

Enter Jodi Chick.  Dude this Chick is amazing. (he he, pun intended)  I mean with a cool name like Chick and being a female, how could you NOT have fun with it?   Well, she literally took over my computer remotely and told me step-by-step what I needed to do.  When I had finished and installed a Paypal button on my blog, she said “You did it!”

Um….no Jodi.  YOU did it.  If it wasn’t for her, I’d still be sitting on Paypal trying to figure out what category my blog fit into.

So I’ve got this Paypal button on my blog.

Because I anticipate selling more calendars than we sold last year, I opened a business account with Paypal.  This was to make sure Paypal didn’t get snarky and shut me off at a certain amount of sales. The trouble is the business account charges, and I want to make sure we get as much as we can for Benny, so the calendars are $21.00 each.  BUT that includes shipping and tax and everything else.

Like I mentioned in a previous post, if you can consolidate orders, we will realize a bigger profit which means more money for Benny.

I placed the Paypal button in the upper right side of the blog just under the subscriptions link.  You can use either your Paypal account or a major credit card, if that’s easier.  If for some reason Paypal or credit card doesn’t work for you, e-mail me at stone.jodi@ymail.com and we’ll figure something out.

Since I’m not sure how Paypal notifies me I’ll somehow be verifying with people who place orders that their orders are correct.  If Paypal includes an e-mail that would be great, if not I will try and contact you via your blog and if that doesn’t work, I’ll run a post on the first Saturday in October listing all the people who ordered.  I will also order a few extra calendars just in case.

I’m probably making this a lot more complicated than it needs to be, but I’m pretty sure some people wanted calendars last year that didn’t get them. 🙁

I’m going to accept orders from now through the end of September, which still gives us plenty of time to order the calendars and still be able to get them out before the holidays.

Ready or not, here we go!

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