Heart Like a Dog

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

You Make Me Smile – May 10, 2015

By

You make me smile (or laugh), the sweet, funny, loving things my dogs do on a daily basis that brings a smile to my face, or a laugh to my lips.

Sampson, the patient way you lie in front of the water bowl, just waiting for me to refill it…

Golden Labrador

.

You make me smile.

He’s a silly dog. Most times he ‘digs’ at the bowl, letting us know it’s empty, but lately he’s taken to just lying in front of it.

He sure makes me smile.

What do your dogs do when their water bowl is empty, or are you better at keeping it full than I am? 🙂

Delilah Stone

Honestly, what would she do without me? She forgot to wish you all a Happy Mother’s Day.

To all the mothers out there, we wish you a day surround by everyone and everything you love.

One Fell Swoop – Barks and Bytes

By

Once upon a time this was my treat bag.

Dog walking essentials

The basic dog walking essentials…cell phone, house keys,  pepper blaster and treat bag. Only thing missing? Poop bags!

I never actually LOVED this treat bag. It had a draw string to close it and clipped to the waistband of my pants with a small plastic clip. I had it fall off on more than one occasion and had to trace our path back to find it. Still it served its purpose, until the Diva of Destruction got hold of it.

She chewed holes in the lining so all the little crumbs and (and sometimes bits of food as well) worked their way between the lining and the exterior. It made it super hard to clean that sucker out.

I put get a new treat bag on my to-do list. I shopped them online, but you can’t really tell the quality and function of a product online, and those rare occasions in the pet store, it simply slipped my mind.

Finally income tax season rolled around and as I had cause to be in a an awesome little pet shop/training center, I purchased a new one. I put the big pieces of treats in the new bag and threw the old bag on the dining room table. I passed it every day and one day in passing I thought, gee, I’m surprised she hasn’t discovered that bag yet.

But did I move it or throw it out?

No, of course not. This is how I set my dog up to fail.

Bad dog owner.

One day last week when I came home the treat bag was on the floor in the living room.

dog ruins treat bag

Notice the Delilah modifications.

She had made some modifications. Specifically I think her goal was to have treats drop out a regular intervals as we walked. Genius really if you think about it. I mean it’s every Labrador’s dream to have an unending supply of noms.

dog ruins treat bag

A closer look at modifications.

I think she went a little too far though, I mean the whole idea would be to have the treats come out regularly, not in one fell swoop.

Welcome to Barks and Bytes Blog Hop hosted by 2 Brown Dawgs and Heart Like a Dog. Barks and Bytes is the blog hop for any and all bloggers. So what are you waiting for? Grab the code at the bottom and link up. If your site does not permit code, please link back to one of your hosts.

Heart Like a Dog



WTF Wednesday-An Eye for An Eye

By

Welcome to WTF Wednesday.  The day where I read and review news stories about animals and generally ask WTF was the human thinking? 

Most times I find myself wishing for an eye for an eye. 

 

You've heard this one right?

You’ve heard this one right?

Dog Thrown from Car Window

All kinds of WTF on this one. The original story stated the dog had recently had puppies and been thrown from a car. At first I thought the owners might need to head over to The Poodle (and Dog) Blog for the Neanderthal or Lizard Brain award.

I thought, how hard could it really be to track these assholes down? I mean at some point they need to sell or give away the puppies, right? A smart cop would be scouring the papers/Craig’s List for the next month or so and should easily be able to discover the douche bag that threw the dog out.

Case closed.

Enter the next bit of WTF. I bookmarked the page so I could reference it in this post and when I checked the Rochester, NH Police Dept’s Facebook page, it had been updated saying the story of the dog being thrown out of a car was fabricated.

FABRICATED!

Who makes shit like this up? And WTF for?

Dog Found in Crate in Intersection

Dog found in intersection

Photo courtesy of NBC 2 News.

This little guy was found in a crate in an intersection in Naples, Florida. 

Brian Lachat initially thought it was a recycle bin. He watched as one car and then another hit the container. Then he saw the dog flopping around and quickly rescued the dog.

Turns out the dog had been surrendered to a rescue and was coming back from being neutered. Hopefully he was still juiced up on anesthesia because apparently the transport van lost the dog.

LOST THE DOG. And the crate.

How the hell do you lose a crate? Do you not notice a door is open. Or maybe think, hmmm I put three dogs in, but now there are only two…where did the third dog go?

How do you not know a door came open?

It boggles my mind.

I’m not trying to bash the rescue but maybe they should screen their volunteers just a tiny bit closer. Maybe one of their questions should be, WTF do you do to secure a dog in transport?

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...