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This ‘N That Thursday – June 20, 2013

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Today we join our friends at the 2 Brown Dawgs blog for This ‘N That Thursday.  You know, This ‘N That Thursday, A little of this and a little of that and everything in between…

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog

Many thanks to our friends at the 2 Brown Dawgs Blog.

Lyme Disease

Yesterday I wrote about the day my grandchildren spent with me.  It was a warm day and my granddaughter had her shirt off.  As I sat next to her during dinner, I noticed a tiny black mark surrounded by lightly irritated skin on her side.

I said to Hubby, “I think she has a tick.”

Of course he went and got our tick key and the rubbing alcohol and removed it.  He said, “I don’t think it’s a tick, it came off too easy.”

I put some antibiotic cream on the spot and told my daughter to keep an eye on it.  Last Thursday my granddaughter went to the Dr. because the spot had grown to the size of a quarter.  The Dr. said it was a spider bite.

Bullshit I thought, spiders don’t attach themselves to your skin.  (Unless they’re vampire spiders and then I have no idea what they do.)

Saturday the mark had taken on the distinction of what is commonly known as a target. The Dr. diagnosed Lyme Disease and my granddaughter is currently on a three week course of antibiotics.

Site of tick bite.

Site of tick bite.

 

The Dr. said my granddaughter should be fine.  But it will always be something in the back of our minds when she isn’t feeling well.

According to the CDC, a tick has to be attached for 36 to 48 hours in order to transmit the Lyme Disease.  This tick was tiny, about the size of the head of a pin.

Just a warning, make sure you check yourself, your kids, and pets.

We’re very lucky we caught this early.

Sampson has a lump.   It’s under his right arm.  About two years ago I found a lump on his side, we went to the vet and had it aspirated, it turned out to be a fatty deposit, which is fairly common in Labradors.

I called to schedule an appointment.  My vet recently had elbow surgery and isn’t seeing dogs over 40 pounds until the first week in July.  The other two vets in the practice that I would normally see are on vacation next week, so I decided to wait until the first week in July.  Of course I’ll keep my eye on it and if it begins to grow I will bring him in and see whoever is there.

I’m praying (and I’d appreciate any prayers you want to throw our way too) that it is just another fatty deposit.  I will keep you posted.

Mr. Linky

A couple weeks ago I wrote about the problem I had with the Linky Tool.  What happened was someone was joining the blog hop and beat me and the co-host at getting their link hooked up.  I went to my Linky Tool dashboard and saw, manage links in hop, so I clicked on it and moved the link to third position.  The problem was that everyone who joined the hop, pushed this persons post further and further down the list, so they were always last.

I finally wrote to Mr. Linky again and asked about managing the links and he told me I couldn’t do it.

Um…..sorry Mr. Linky but clearly I did it.  You may want to look at your product again.

As of right now I’m almost positive I won’t be renewing my subscription with Mr. Linky.

Follow-up Friday

Follow-up Friday is being co-hosted this week by Kari from Hound Girl.  She will have the link up and on her blog tomorrow morning.  We will be participating in K-9 Kamp so our Follow-Up Friday post will go up on Saturday again.

If anyone is interested in co-hosting, it’s not that hard and I’d love to share the linky love. 🙂

This ‘N That Thursday – June 13, 2013

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Today we join our friends at the 2 Brown Dawgs blog for This ‘N That Thursday.  You know, This ‘N That Thursday, A little of this and a little of that and everything in between…

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog

Many thanks to our friends at the 2 Brown Dawgs Blog.

Guide dog saves man and woman from swerving vehicle.

Oh my God!  Did you see this video?  I think it’s awesome, O’Neil is going to make someone an awesome little guide dog.

Hot Cars and Dogs

It’s that time of year when the days get warm and lots of people are out and about with their dogs.  In cars.  And then they leave their dogs.  In cars.  And go into the stores.

Two weeks ago I called the police and waited over 45 minutes.  The cops never showed but the woman finally did.  Right after I wrote a little note on the back of my business card asking her to e-mail for a free fact sheet explaining how hot it gets in a car.

The back of my blog business card.

The back of my blog business card.

 

She was angry that I had called the police and told me her dog was ‘her kid.’ Then she turned on her car and told me the temperature was only 71 degrees.  Yes, it was only 71 degrees outside, but not inside the car.  I’d been inside my car after it was shut up for 10 minutes and it was a lot hotter than 71 degrees.

She never did e-mail me.

Yesterday it was cool, but warm in the sun.  I stopped at Big Y and sure enough, I passed a station wagon with two dogs inside it.  I could feel my stomach start to churn.  When I came out of the store 10 minutes later, the dogs were still in the car.

CT License Plate 974 ZUY

CT License Plate 974 ZUY

 

You can see the shape of one of the dogs in the back on the passenger side.  When I took the photo the other dog wasn’t visible.

I took my photo inside the store to the service desk and I said, “There’s a car in the parking lot with two dogs in it and one of the dogs is down on the seat.”

The girl immediately took the information down.

I didn’t wait.  I know it was horrible, but quite frankly I’m tired of arguing with stupid dog owners.  On the way back to work I thought, maybe I need to start carrying ice cubes with me.  That way when I see a dog, I can slip some ice cubes through the open windows onto the driver’s seat and provide a little cool refreshment for the dog(s.)

It might also make the owner a tad bit uncomfortable on the ride home.  Perhaps a little note to go along with it?

Your wet ass is nothing compared to how distressed your dog is in a hot car.  Be thankful I didn’t bust your window with a brick.

It might need some refining.

Pooch Smooches

You remember my co-hostess Jackie from the last Follow-up Friday?  She had her own run-in yesterday with a stupid dog owner.  I feel so badly for her and her friend, but I’m so proud she stood up to that bully!

Speaking of Follow-Up Friday, my co-hostess this week is none other than my dear friend Kari, from Hound Girl.

Our weather dude is predicting a Nor ‘easter starting today and going into tomorrow and they’re afraid we’re going to have some power outages.  Just a fyi, in case you don’t see me around. 🙂

Thanks to our friends at 2 Brown Dawgs blog

Co-Hosted Follow-Up Friday – June 7, 2013

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Co-hosted Follow-Up Friday.

https://www.heartlikeadog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/follow-up-friday.jpg As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, my co-hostesses this week are Jackie and Rita from Pooch Smooches.

If you haven’t met Jackie and Rita, well folks you are in for a treat.  Jackie published her first novel “What the dog ate” last year, she’s happily married living the life out in California, with her sweet little Rita, a rescue that was found on the beach.  She likes reading, writing, margaritas and dogs (I think we might be long lost sisters.)

Thank you Jackie and Rita for joining us in the Follow-Up Friday blog hop, we’re quite excited to have you join us.

This is sad Rita, if you’re wondering why Rita’s sad well you’ll have to read Jackie’s brilliant post from yesterday. (I’m sorry but shock wave kept crashing so I can’t link to the post.)

You Make Me Laugh

Are you kidding me?  I just looked at this post and I have a HUGE spelling error!  What an embarrassment.

Poetry in Motion

Most of you don’t have a problem with loose dogs, but those that have encountered them seem to handle it fairly well.

Donna said, “I don’t exactly live in the area where I can let my dogs off leash, and Toby’s been attacked once and nipped another time, and Leah was attacked once, so I now carry citronella spray and have used it once as a loose dog started following too close for comfort. Happy to say, it did work – I sprayed him and he turned and took off.

I don’t love the idea of spraying a dog, but my dogs come first and citronella is benign. It’s not like I’m macing them!”

Sampson and Delilah have both been attacked by the Bull Dogs across the street (which is why I think they didn’t like my daughter’s Bull Dog at Christmas.)  I don’t relish the idea of spraying a dog with anything either, but I’m also not sure how willing I am to take on an aggressive dog.  If it comes down to my dog or theirs, well I’m peppering their dog and anything else I need to do to protect my dogs.  We do have leash laws, unenforced, but we do have laws.

Willy or Won’t He

Well I think this is good news, when I went to check on Willy last night, he was no longer available on Petfinder.

This comment from Jessica made me laugh,  “I’m calling my mom right now to remind her that she gets custody of Silas.”  I’m glad you have a plan in place for him.  We all should. I think we all agree it’s just horrible for a Senior dog to be dumped at a shelter.

I’m Detoxing

Frankie and Ernie said, “Now about the cleaning thingys around the house… our mom only uses three thingys plus WATER… White Vinegar MicroFiber Cloths and Mops and now and then a LITTLE Murphy’s Oil Soap…

Gizmo said, “Vinegar…plain white vinegar…I use it for cleaning almost everything these days.

Okay, so how do you use the vinegar?  Do you put it in a spray bottle and what is your dilution percent?

Jackie said, “Anyway, I’ve been trying to switch to using products that have less chemicals. I haven’t used dryer sheets for years (evil little things) and stopped using anything beyond warm water and maybe some vinegar for the floors long ago. I also use Method brand laundry and hand soaps, and we have some lovely local olive oil soap that we use in the shower and for the dog.”

I too use Method laundry soap, but what do you use in your dryer?  How do you keep your clothes from getting full of static.

Pamela said, “As well as baking soda, washing soda, and other old fashioned items.”  What is washing soda and what kind of old fashioned items?

Sugar asked, “We are interested in sanitizer for toothbrush. Is there an after taste? Is it safe for dog?”  I think it is safe for dogs, the ingredients are alcohol and oil blend.  You spray it on your toothbrush and wait for it to dry before using it.  I haven’t noticed any taste on my toothbrush at all.

Emma, 2 Brown Dawgs and Anonymous said they aren’t getting their e-mail subscriptions.   Well I tried to do a backup and in order to do it, I disabled all my plugins.  I’ve since gone in and reactivated them.  The subscription button is back in the side bar, and you said you got your e-mail yesterday so hopefully it’s straightened out.

This ‘N That Thursday

Jan is having a problem with Feedly, “Whenever I go there it says that I have “no unread articles” but it lies. Then it gives me a list of what I am supposed to have already read and they are ones I’ve never seen. What am I doing wrong? Anyone?”  Can any of you gurus help her?

All Things Collie said, “Hi there! So tomorrow we are joining your blog hop.”  Yay!  We love having new people join the hop.  Welcome, welcome!!

Many of you asked about our Free Style performance (if you can stretch your imagination to call it that.)  While Hubby won’t be with us, my instructor has graciously offered to video tape it for us, so hopefully if all goes well next week we will have a little video to share.

That’s it from us, thanks for joining the Follow-Up Friday blog hop hosted by Pooch Smooches and Heart Like a Dog.



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