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Follow-Up Friday – March 6 2015

March 6, 2015 By Jodi

Welcome to this week’s edition of Follow-Up Friday, the post where I highlight awesome comments, answer reader’s questions and generally just wrap up my week.

You Make Me Laugh – March 1, 2015

Golden lab

Did I do that?

Jan K said, “Luke and Sheba rile each other up equally. Cricket just sits back and watches them, waiting for them to drop whatever toy they’re fighting over, and then she moves in and steals it!”

LOL My dogs steal from each other too!

Jan said, ” My dogs take turns hearing something from another zip code and sounding the alarm.”

What’s that about?  The other night Delilah lost her shit at something she either saw or heard in the back yard at like 10:00 pm at night.  While I’m not worried about a person being in the yard, I do worry about wildlife.  She tore out of the house and tried to plow her way through three feet of snow.  Crazy dog.

The Diva of Destruction Strikes Again

This post is a perfect example of why I need Follow-Up Friday.  I SHOULD have titled the post, “Delialh Gives New Meaning to Pushing Pencils” what a perfect pun that would have been.  Sadly I thought of it after it had already hit publish.

Mary said, “Poop a pack of purple pencils. Say that 3 times fast.”

LMAO Mary!  I can’t even say, “Elevated Liver Levels” maybe I need to stop putting whiskey in my coffee?  Nah, that ain’t gonna happen!

Frankie and Ernie said, “TECHNICOLOR POOPS….. We love that… We think it must have been a FUN time… If you plan another… Session… “PENCIL” us in and we will join you, Delilah.”

OMD you guys are so funny!!  I should have asked you for a post title!

Blueberry’s Human said, “I’ve resisted posting pictures of Blueberry’s poop on the blog…but now you’ve lowered the bar and totally opened up that door for me. I thank you…P.S. When you warned us about the grossness, I kept scrolling down PAST THE POOP because I was waiting for the gross picture to appear.”

You’re welcome. 😉  That’s me, always a ground breaker.  Only you (and me) would think a picture of poop was normal  Oh and JoAnn, she would too. LOL

Elaine said, “Ouch! I would freak out see those pencils parts in a pile of poop!”

I did freak a little at first.  BUT then I thought about all the sticks she chews and figured they probably aren’t much different.

Jan said, “Now Jodi, you could never in a million years make up all the funny stuff that Delilah can think of to make this one of the funniest blogs in the blogosphere.”

Oh Jan, thank you.  I can’t imagine how boring this blog would be without Miss Delilah.

Rebekah said, “I just spit out my cottage cheese. Can’t. Stop. Laughing.”

THAT’s what I like to hear!! My work here is done. 🙂

Sophie said, “I’m wondering how those long pencils came out without hurting her! ”

I wondered that too, but she didn’t seem to struggle getting them out.

Maggie said, “We had a similar situation with my nephew’s box of Crayons. There were my three dogs, my sister’s two, and my mom’s all in the house, so no one knew who ate the box. Until later. It was Emmett.”

LOL Oh my dog.  I love Emmett!

Kirsten said, “Oh wow–pencil poop! That’s a new one, and testament to her hardy constitution. Glad they are apparently nontoxic.”

You know Kirsten, I never even thought of the possibility that they might be toxic!  I’m glad they weren’t either.

The Snow Banks are Made of Bread

Labs Love Snow

You sound angry, maybe you should try sticking your nose in a snow bank to cool off.

Sand Spring Chesapeakes said, “When I feed bread to my chickens I break it up but when John’s mom throws bread out she throws the whole loaf of homemade bread out for her birds and guess who gets it yes bird Nellie who goes up there scavenging for scrapes and she finds a big one.”

LOL Bird Nellie.  There is a Labrador on one of the pages I follow who carries a loaf of bread around, like it’s her baby.  In fact, the owner named the bread Wilson. 

Emma said, “Damn birds! They would bring their crap to your snowbanks! ”

That’s what I said Emma.  Those damn birds.  Let me catch one, just one.  They won’t be coming in my yard again. 😉

2 Brown Dawgs said, “The birds and squirrels bring food into our yard but we try our best not to let the dogs eat it. Lately I have heard of reports where food items are poisoned and the dogs get sick or worse. ”

I do my best too, but that little shit is fast.  The idea of poisoning concerns me too, especially where we live with all the wildlife.  Who knows what some of those idiots would do to get rid of an animal.

Jackie Bouchard said, “Oh, I remember how it was walking our beagle in the snow. So much food – everywhere. One thing that always amazed me was the sheer number of chicken bones she used to find when we would walk.”

Gosh I hope you were able to get them away from her!  We do find all manner of food in the woods and I try to keep her from eating it.

Two French Bull Dogs said, “What do you do with all that snow!”

The snow blowers keep throwing the snow up on the banks and the plows keep pushing it back.  Most houses have at least 10 feet by 10 feet snow banks in their yards.  Some of the streets are too narrow for two cars to pass each other.  There are some places called snow farms where towns go and dump snow and also empty parking lots, but most of those are already full.  Our parking lot at work has lost about 25% of the parking spaces.

 

Snow

This is our parking lot.

Daisy says, “Our snow banks are huge too – some are a good 20+ feet high – and our roads got so narrow that the plows started dumping loads of snow on our sidewalks and front lawns.”

That is the same here, there is just no place to put the snow.

Lauren Miller said, “We had a neighbor that would do that too! She would feed the deer and coyotes! It was insane and drove us all crazy…On a side note, I don’t think bread is even good for birds! There are signs everywhere here that says to please not feed it to them because it makes them sick.”

I did not hear that about bread for the birds, good to know!  One of our neighbors feeds the racoons, she calls them her babies.

Jan asked, “I think the birds are messing with you When you look up, do you see them chortling on the utility lines?”

Oh they do Jan.  It’s those fucking crows.  I can’t tell you how many times I look up and them and say, I wish I could shoot you.  I told hubby if we ever have to hunt for food, start with the crows.

Balls – Barks and Bytes

coyote-2.jpg

Surprise mutherfucker! He he he, you should see the look on your face. (Photo courtesy of Animal Pictures)

Emma said, “We have coyotes here and recently a lab was attacked in a neighborhood, so they are nothing to casually ignore!”

Crap, that scares me.  Was the dog outside alone?  I would hope with three of us together we would be intimidating for a wild creature but one can never be sure.  I do carry pepper spray too and would not hesitate to blast it.

Balls said the Queen.

“Balls” said Queen Delilah, “If I had two I’d be King.”

Sand Spring Chesapeakes asked, “Did they get to bring the ball home?”

Nope.  Who the hell is going to blow that ball up?  Certainly not this chick.  I have no idea whose mouth that sucker has been in. 😉

Mary said, “Hee hee. You said the MoFo word.”

Yes I did.  I thought about it, but I figured if I haven’t offended you by now. LOL

Monika and Sam said, “OMD, I snorted coffee all over my keyboard! That was the best way to start the day–thanks ever so for a smile. I don’t think I’ll be forgetting that coyote narrative for quite some time and even though I gave up swearing for Lent (BTW, what the hell was I thinking doing THAT?), no doubt I’ll be silently recalling it as I wander our neighborhood which has its own resident coyote wandering around looking for stray cats. Is that technically considered a sin? ”

LOL I love it when I can make people laugh!!  And really, what the hell were you thinking?  I think as long as you’re not saying it out loud, you’re okay.  Once I gave up chocolate for Lent.  It was horrible.  I think I ate a whole pound of it at one minute past midnight on Easter morning.

Two French Bulldogs said, “Mom is jealous cause she wants to go to Blog Paws too.”

Well tell her to do it!  We want to see her!!!

Jan K asked, “Beach ball? Someone’s dreaming! What I wonder is what you thought it might be before you got there?”

Well there was a beach ball last year in the woods.  I wonder if it somehow just found its way down?  And surprise, I could actually tell it was a beach ball almost from when they first spotted it (I think it was the bright colors.) 🙂

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Follow-Up Friday – February 27, 2015

February 27, 2015 By Jodi

Welcome to this week’s edition of Follow-Up Friday, the post where I highlight awesome reader comments, answer questions and generally wrap up my week.

You Make Me Laugh – February 22, 2015

First of all, thank you for not mentioning just how messy my stairs are.  There are just so many things needed for a walk this time of year, and we do it twice a day.  I tend to get lazy.

Dogs acting silly

Monika said, “Sam bounces like a pogo stick in anticipation of our walks until he sees the dreaded snow boots come out and then he hangs his head as if he’s being punished.”

Poor Sam!  When Sampson had his surgery last year, he had to wear the cone for the first couple of weeks. Each morning when I left for work I would put that cone on him and watch my happy, go-lucky boy hang his head.  It broke my heart, but I had to do it.

KB said, “My dogs knock my hands off the keyboard with an upward push by their noses to get my attention. That makes me laugh!”

Oh that would make laugh too, I think it’s a lab trait. 😉

Blueberry’s Human said, ” Our routine when getting back from a hike/walk is for her to go into the house, drink some water and then have me remove her harness and collar after which I have to give her a treat. If I, for some reason, forget that last part and try to make my way over to the fridge to put the treats in there, body blocking ensues.”

Is she part lab too?  LOL Don’t ever try and not give Delilah a treat when she knows she’s due. 

No Further Testing Required

Golden Labrador Retriever

You told them I was here, didn’t you?

Cupcake said, “No-further-testing is my favorite word! Yay!”

It’s my favorite word too, Cupcake!

Emma said, “How embarrassing to wear boots to the vet and not even a complete set.”

LOL he hates wearing four boots, if I put them on he will kick and kick until he kicks them off, BUT if I only put two on, he behaves himself.

Daisy said, “I wish Daisy would relax at the vet’s office like Sampson; she sits on our laps and trembles so hard you’d think you had a soft jackhammer on your lap.”

Oh my, is there anything you can do to make her feel better?  Have you tried a calming collar, or maybe some Rescue Remedy?

Sue said, “When there’s ice or snow outside Jeffie actually waits by the mudroom closet doors for me to fetch his. Seriously.”

Oh I wish my dogs liked wearing the boots like Jeffie does!

It’s Colder Than a  Witch’s Tit

Golden Lab

Some dogs get normal people for moms. Apparently I’m not one of them.

Mary said, “The only one from that bunch I have heard, is the last one. Or, it’s colder than a witches tit in a brass bra. Which actually makes more sense. LOL”

Well I probably got it wrong, LOL.  It actually does make more sense.

Frankie and Ernie said, “How about THIS one….. it is Colder than a Squirrel’s Heart.”

OOOOh, that made me shiver!!

Emma said, “We hear freezing my ass off all the time, but that’s about it.”

Who says that Emma?  Mom? LOL (I say it too.) 

Jan K said, “We woke up to 25 below this morning…but it rose all the way to 14 above, and I made the dogs wait until then to go outside!”

Brrrr…when it’s that cold I wait until it’s warmer too!

Cora said, “We have “It aint ‘alf nipply out there” or “it’s brass monkeys” (full version, It’s so cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.) Then we’ve got “Blimey it’s taters out there” (comes from Potatoes (taters) in the Mould (cold), mould being the topsoil, and referring to potatoes being in topsoil are colder than when they’re buried further down) which could be followed by “Let’s have a cup of rosie to warm our cockles” (have a cup of tea to warm up!) ”

WOW, thanks for sharing that.  I’ve never heard the taters in the mould one, and please, can you tell me just what cockles are? 🙂

Definitely – Barks and Bytes

First the comments. 🙂

Hawk asked, “You didn’t really expect Delilah to pass up that enticing piece of jerky, did you?”

Hang tight Hawk, she almost did!

Emma said, “I would guess they ate the jerky on the floor and then found the box? Just be careful doing the treat on the floor thing as it teaches them treats can be anywhere, not just in boxes. ”

Thanks Emma, that’s good to know.  I’m not worried about that quite so much because we won’t be doing competitions.  When we took our nose work class, the treats were hidden in many different spots, with the goal being to have the dog not be afraid to check out items other than boxes. 🙂

Cupcake guessed, “I’d say one good doggie searched and succeeded, and another one (whose name shall not be mentioned) scarfed down the errant treat and left. ”

Close, Cupcake, you’re close.

Mary asked, “Totally off topic…do you have a hard time spelling definitely? ”

No, would you believe the word I have trouble spelling is occasion or occasionally? LOL

Callie, Shadow and Ducky’s mom said, “Delilah gobbled both treats down in record time while Sampson enjoyed every little, deliberate bite?”

Not quite. 🙂

Jan said, “I won’t embarrass any dog by guessing what happened, but I am guessing that the predictable scenario took place. Am I close?”

Okay you guys, I’ve kept you guessing long enough.  Here’s what happened.  I was predictable by placing the treats in the boxes at the end of the hall.  (I wanted then to get some exercise after all.)

I started with Sampson first, he went to the first door, sniffed and found the jerky on the floor. Then he went to each of the remaining doors and did his sniff/search.

When it came time for Delilah’s turn, she tore down the hall, past the door with the jerky on the floor, she caught the scent as she flew past, and whipped around, grabbed the treat then ran down the hall to grab the real ‘find’.

I said, Damn it!  I wish I’d had the video camera on to capture that moment when she caught the scent.

Well that’s it for me, have a great weekend!

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Follow-UP Friday – February 20, 2015

February 20, 2015 By Jodi

Welcome to this week’s edition of Follow-UP Friday, the post where I highlight reader’s comments (cause’ you all are some awesome commenters), answer your questions and generally just wrap up my week.

You Make Me Smile – February 15, 2015

Dog loves human

Just one more rubbie, Grandma….PLEEEEAAASE.

So many of you shared that your dog either opened your heart or the heart of someone else.  I think that might possibly be the greatest blessing of dogs.

Callie, Shadow and Ducky’s Mom said, “Didn’t take you long to win Grandma over did it, buddy?!”

No, it really didn’t.  I think it was a couple of days at best.

Frankie and Ernie said, “We love how a dog or cat can Totally OPEN a Heart that said it did not want to be opened.”

That’s truth right there.

There are Times

Labs-in-snow

Holy woof, we might have to wait til’ spring to find a place to poop.

Meagan said, “Yes, My yellow lab Merlin will bark and growl at anything that is not in the place where it should be. Once I caught him growling at a moth in his kennel and yesterday he was carrying on at a dead fly on the ground.”

LOL I’ve heard of dogs that do this, mine do not, but if they did I bet I’d be laughing at them.

Mary said, ” Torrey has never barked or howled at sirens. The other night she was sound asleep and a siren went kinda close by. She started howling in her sleep, I have never ever seen this dog howl. I laughed so hard.”

Oh Mary!  Don’t you wish you had a video camera?

Maggie said, ” We’ve had a lot of leaves blowing around because of some nearby construction taking down some trees (boo.) but it’s been so funny watching Cooper try to snap them out of the air. Yesterday he made a game of it, and John and I just sat and laughed! ”

Hubby would throw leaves for Sampson when he was a puppy and he would jump at them, it’s so cute, isn’t it?  I love watching the dogs.  When they play or wrestle Hubby and I will just stop what we are doing and watch and laugh.

Caren Gittleman said, “You remind me of the Erma Bombeck of “Dogdom”…you kill me! What can go wrong, WILL! (I mean that in a GOOD way!) You speak for all of the less-than-perfect-but-with-good-intentions doggie parents such as myself. You tell it like it is, and you admit that your dogs aren’t perfect, which, truth be told, NONE of them are!!!!”

Thank you Caren!  I think so many people have the wrong idea that they must be perfect to have pets (or children.) HELL, they do NOT come with instruction manuals!  We all make mistakes, the key is to learn from them, right?

Lauren Miller said, “I can totally relate to mayhem on walks! I’ve managed to teach my two to untangle themselves and they can as long as they are tangled in their own leash.”

I bow to your expertise!  How in the world do you teach them to untangle themselves?

Sand Spring Chesapeakes said, “I feel the same way, there are so many times I want to shake Gambler then when he kicks the closet open grabs my clothes and prances in the living room with them with this shit eating grin on his face, he makes me smile.”

It can be frustrating for sure.  But in Gambler’s case I think it’s just because he loves his Momma SO much. 🙂

Dogs are Like Teenagers

Sand Spring Chesapeakes asked, “So have you ever tried forbid or another poop deterent?”

We have tried Solid Gold S.E.P. (Stop eating poop.)  I can’t remember if it worked or not, but that doesn’t help me with poop on our walks.  She is non-discriminatory. Ugh, I just threw up a little in my mouth.

Lauranne said, “Mity had the same problem and from watching him closely it seemed to be he thought he had to clean it up.”

THAT is a brilliant thought.  She had to do it with her puppies, I wonder if she just developed a taste for it. (Ugh, I threw up in my mouth again.)

Cupcake said, “Sometimes you can’t argue with delicious. ”

I think we have different ideas of what exactly delicious is. LOL

Emma said this about sister Bailie, “Luckily, we were able to break her of the habit and she no longer eats poo…with the exception of goose poo which is real good and tough to resist.”

I understand goose poo and even deer poo.  I just can’t stand it in my yard.  Sampson is NOT the dog equivalent of Dairy Queen.

2 Brown Dogs said, “Or they sneak eating shit….lol. (Well at least teens don’t literally do that!)”

Thank God.  They do enough sneaky shit without having to worry about THAT!

Mary said, “I’m so glad these guys aren’t shit eaters, Well, bunny and deer, but that hardly counts. We call those smart pills. ”

BWA HA HA.  Smart pills.  Do they help?

Callie, Shadow and Ducky’s Mom said, “Oh! My! God! I cannot stop laughing!!!! I have this vision in my head of Sampson flying through the air as you sing at the top of your lungs “Look Mom I Pooped! I pooped!””

😀  He just looks so happy, it’s so hard to describe.

Blueberry’s Human said, “I’m not sure which made me laugh harder – Sampson’s glee over unloading or Delilah’s haste to clean it up. Wait, so last night, I was thinking about dogs that eat poop, and of course, Delilah came to mind and so to the tune of Frere Jacques – I made up this little ditty just for you and Delilah:

Please stop eating, please stop eating,
all that poop, all that poop
It’s really bad for your liver
Even though it must taste so good you shiver,
De-li-lah…De-li-lah

By the way, did you ever receive that cartoon I sent to your email? My goodness, I really am obsessed with dog poop, aren’t I?

Of course Delilah comes to mind.  LOL  Thanks for the little ditty, it made me laugh!!  I hadn’t seen the cartoon so I went digging for it.  Turns out I had it, but it was buried in the junk folder between Cialis RX and some single chick who wanted to ‘chat.’

Dog poop cartoon

The attribution is on the photo.

The Dog Days of Winter

Emma said, “We like to go for our walks no matter what. This morning it is -14, so our walk will only be about 20 mins, but we want to be out there.”

When it’s super cold and windy out, I do limit the walks, but there were a couple mornings where they just said, “no way.”

Monika and Sam said, “Nothing more aggravating than to go and find the dog back in your warm toasty bed looking at you like you’re a complete idiot with that ‘what the heck were YOU planning on doing’ look. ”

Delilah is notorious for doing this if you get up to pee in the middle of the night.  You come back and she’s snagged the cozy spot.  She is really a Diva.

JanK said, “I don’t blame your dogs one bit! Since breakfast is first on the daily agenda, our crew never stays in bed (in fact, they usually try to wake Dad up early for it)”

Because both Sampson and Delilah are deep-chested dogs, I worry about bloat.  I try my best to give them time between exercising and eating.  Ideally I would feed them an hour after they had finished walking or feed them and wait two hours.  Typically that is how it works on the weekends or days off, but during the week when I have to go to work, it’s usually 40 to 45 minutes.  So, if we don’t walk when I first wake up, they aren’t getting a morning walk during the week.

Flea said, “Those are some smart dogs! I’d still be in bed if it wasn’t for having to feed the chickens. And the fish. And the dogs. And me.”

Oh how I love the days I get to sleep in.

Blueberry’s Human said, “I would make them go for a walk anyway – I’d be all, “HEY! I got up for this, so you’re going. Suck it up, dogs.”. And then the next day I would sleep in and not bother.  ”

BWA HA HA, you are so evil. 🙂

That’s a wrap for me folks.  If you hung in there this long, I thank you.  Have a wonderful weekend!

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