Heart Like a Dog

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

Dogcula

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I spent some time on youtube last night looking for some positive training methods of teaching a dog to take a treat gently.

Honestly you’d think after five years of screaming in pain every time we give Delilah a treat, one of us would learn.

Either we would figure out how to teach her in a way that she’d remember, we’d learn to tell her easy or she would learn how not to amputate fingers when she took a treat.

It is one of the harder aspects of using positive reinforcements for me.

Yes it’s true.

Delilah is Dogcula.

I am constantly cursing because she’s bitten my finger.  Last winter I couldn’t figure out why my middle finger kept hurting.  (While it’s true I do use that finger frequently, it’s not being used in a manner to cause pain…for me.)

Last night when giving her a treat, she drew blood.

Granted it was a small puncture, but it bled none-the-less.  After treating it with antibiotic cream, I spent some time on youtube looking for some positive methods to teach a dog to take a treat gently.

None of the videos I watched really taught me much (okay, you caught me, I only watched two, but neither one was very helpful.)

I gave up on youtube pretty quickly because I’m just lazy I’d much rather turn to my friends and see how they manage their dogs.

What’s a few fingers when I’m so stinkin’ cute?

 

So tell me, do you have Dogcula’s living in your house, or have you taught them to take treats gently?  If so, how did you do it?

I thank you and my hands thank you.

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!

Not THAT Kind Of Dog – Author’s Note

In the comments Donna and the Dogs Toby noted If a dog runs up in Delilah’s face, then she’s got every right to nip it.

You see Toby, that’s how it works in the dog world, but the peoples, the peoples just don’t understand dogese.  They get a little freaked out when one dog nips at another dog.

What we need is a translator, someone who can teach the peoples what they really need to know about dogs.  Maybe in between writing your blogs, you could teach us? 😉

Monday Mischief Delilah Style – Author’s Note

Many of you noted this in the comments, but damn, that dog is talented.  She moved a two-pound box off a counter and at least 12 feet, but never tore the box.

Maybe I’m wasting her talents in the agility ring?

What’s Your Pooping Style – Author’s Note

Why can’t I write funny posts like this all the time?  Why must my funny posts all be poop related?

This ‘N That Thursday – Author’s Note

I hooked a number of suckers A number of you said you would like to participate in the Follow-Up Friday blog hop.

I’ve already started working on this and will be doing a bit more research over the weekend.  From the comment that Jetty left me, I found out there is more than one linky tool.  Can any of you that use a linky tool tell me if there is one that is better or easier than the other?  Do any of them work with the free wordpress account?

I hope to have some more information for you next week.  For those of you with the free wordpress account, don’t worry, you can still co-host, simply put a link in your post that says get your code here and list this website.  I did that myself when I had the free account.

If all goes well perhaps we can hop as early as next week.

Kristine noted all the leaves already on the ground in the pictures I posted yesterday, while there are a few from this current season, most of those leaves that are on the ground are from the storm we had in October.

You may have also noticed that some of the trees look pretty scarce in the leaf department, there were a lot of damaged trees in that storm and a lot of them didn’t recover this season.

There are still so many dead limbs just hanging up around here, every time we have some wind, or a rain storm more limbs/trees come down.

The background in this picture is blurry, but I think you can still make out the huge tree limb on the side of the trail.

Just one of many branches that are still falling.

That about wraps up our week, we’re weekend bound.  Any big plans coming up or any news you’d like to share?

This ‘N That Thursday

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Today we’re joining our friends over at 2 Brown Dawgs Blog on This ‘N That Thursday.  As 2 Brown Dawgs says, This ‘N That Thursday is for times when you want to post about unrelated topics or each topic isn’t quite long enough to make up a whole post.  It can be anything you want, so feel free to grab the button and join us!

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog

Blog Hops

I’m working hard on developing a following on this blog and am always looking for ways to increase readership.

One of the ways to do this is by blog hops.  I currently know of blog hops that take place on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

I’d considered making Follow-up Friday into a Blog Hop, but wasn’t sure if there was an interest in it.  During one of his comments, Hawk at Brown Dog CBR mentioned his human would be interested in taking part in a Follow-up Friday blog hop.

I figure what the hell, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Since I have no experience with organizing a blog hop, it may take me a bit of time to figure it out, but I’m willing to try.

I’m structuring the FUF a little bit differently than the traditional blog hop.

I’d like to share the opportunity to increase readers with other blogs that want to grow, in order to do this, I will make the FUF a co-hosted event.

The twist is there will be a different co-host each week.

If you’d be interested in participating in or co-hosting a FUF post, please let me know in the comments.

For right now, I will take people in the order they show interest.  I will keep a running tab and can announce every Friday who the next Friday’s co-host will be.

The other thought I have is to promote this blog hop to other bloggers, not just pet bloggers, this might open up a whole new avenue of readers.

I will be working on a new badge for this event as well.  Here’s what I’m thinking for the badge, two sets of footprints, human and dog across the width of the badge.

The slogan will be Follow-Up Friday, the not-just-for-pet-bloggers blog hop, that wraps up your week and leads you right into the weekend. (I got this one from a comment left by Long Life Cats and Dogs.) 😉

Thoughts, comments, suggestions?

Now if we can convince 2BrownDawgs into making This ‘N That Thursday into a blog hop, all the days will be covered. 😉

Pictures

I have a little point and shoot camera that is almost always in my back pocket on our walks.  A few days ago I snapped these pictures and I thought they were so pretty, I just had to share.

When I was framing this shot (if you can call it that) I kept saying, “Don’t go towards the light Sampson, don’t go towards the light.”

 

As you can see, Delilah is back on her 15 foot leash.

 

Do you have any ideas on how to caption these photos?

Oh and don’t forget to leave me your thoughts and suggestions for a Follow-Up Friday Blog Hop.

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