Heart Like a Dog

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

Damn You Polar Vortex!

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Barks and Bytes

Thank you all for making the inaugural Barks and Bytes Blog hop a rousing success last week!    As you may remember my co-hostess Linda and I had a $25 give away to all participating blogs who linked up and displayed our badge.  I’m excited to report the winner of the Amazon Gift Card was Terri from Time for Poodles and Friends.  Terri has been notified and already received her prize!

On behalf of Linda and I, congratulations to Terri and thank you for all who participated.

Just a reminder, the Barks and Bytes Blog hop was designed for Pet Bloggers (Barks) and non-Pet Bloggers (Bytes) alike, all are welcome to join, we only ask that you mention your hosts (2 Brown Dawgs and Heart Like a Dog) and display our badge either in the post or on your blog.

Linda and I will be sharing some of our favorite posts on our Facebook pages as well, so we hope you can join us.

You can pick up your badge in my side-bar, or in Linda’s side-bar depending upon which color you prefer.

Heart Like a Dog

 

Damn you Polar Vortex

The weather folks keep talking about this Polar Vortex and all I can tell you is it’s damn cold out there.  Because of Sampson’s injury, we haven’t had many walks, but last night it was still light out when I got home and it wasn’t super cold, so I decided to give the dogs a quick one.  I’ve been strictly enforcing quiet with Sampson after last week’s limping bout, so he’s been fairly well rested.   We made a short trip up the street and back and both dogs were willing to go even farther, but I didn’t want to chance it.

Sampson is seeing the holistic vet this morning for an adjustment to his spine and his follow-up for the partial ACL tear is next Thursday, so any walks he gets will be very minimal.  If the weather is decent and not too cold, I’m going to shoot for a walk with Delilah in our woods this weekend.

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I want to go too.  Please, I’ll give you kisses and I’ll snuggle you real good.

Changes to this Blog

When I took the Pet Blogger Challenge the beginning of this month, I stated there would be changes coming to this blog.  One of the big changes of course was the redesign by Julie from Leg Up Creative.  I also have an idea for a ‘feature’ if you will, that I’m still working on, but my book that I started in November of 2012 has been calling me and I feel the need to answer the call.

This doesn’t mean I’m leaving you!  Jeesh, I just had the redesign done!  What I mean is I want to take a day or two off of blogging and use that time to work on my book.  In order to do that, I want to make sure my time spent blogging is productive and so I need your help.

Please tell me in the comments what kinds of posts you like to see when you visit this blog.   If I’m going to cut back my posts to maybe four per week, one of them being my follow-up post, what type of post would you like to see?

This is Barks and Bytes Blog hop hosted by 2 Brown Dawgs and Heart Like a Dog, grab the badge and join the fun!

Caption the Photo – January 29, 2014

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Some of my favorite posts are when I put a picture up and ask you to caption it.  I already have a caption in my head which I will share on Friday.

For a little background, today’s picture was taken last week on the deck at our house, right after a fresh covering of snow.

Captions

Leave your captions in the comments.

Shit My Dog Eats

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Let’s face it.  Being a lab owner requires patience, diligence and above all a sense of humor.  If you didn’t laugh at the crazy shit they do you’d be pulling your hair out.

You know, if you have a lab they’re highly motivated by food.   The first time I took out the clicker and paired it with a green bean, Delilah about lost her mind.  She was so fixated on the green bean, she couldn’t see anything else.  Thankfully we’ve come a long way since that initial pairing, but anyone that knows Delilah knows if she had her druthers she’d eat until she exploded.  Which leaves us with an interesting question.

How do you know your dog has  a problem with food? 

You sit down to make a list of all the shit she’s eaten and you’re like…..I can’t even remember.

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Really?  You’re going there?  After that plate of Nachos you inhaled last night?  Whatever Mama. Remember payback is a bitch and so is Karma and I know there’s a Human Shaming blog hop somewhere in your future.

So here for your reading pleasure….

The crazy shit my dog has eaten:

  • Packing peanuts
  • plastic tooth picks
  • used tissues
  • make-up remover cloths
  • acorns
  • wood bark
  • packing peanuts
  • Jojoba oil
  • Bisquick
  • a container full of vitamins and supplements
  • baker’s chocolate
  • 3/4 pound of butter including wrappers
  • what was left of a bag of potato chips
  • a plate of shaved corned beef
  • pancake batter from the bowl
  • a hot dog out of a pan
  • cooking oil from out of a pan
  • coffee with Bailey’s and cream
  • dog poop

 

Shit she’s tried to eat but been caught or deterred from eating:

  • 7 pounds of frozen chicken necks
  • a can of crisco
  • chicken from the pan
  • a dog treat from Sampson’s mouth
  • a rack of deer ribs
  • a sandwich baggie full of ham
  • an M&M chocolate bar

Of course, there’s always the stuff you THINK she might have eaten.  Like the time I called Hubby at work, practically hysterical because I thought she ate a metal fork.

I found it in the bedroom, she’d licked it good and clean too.

And then there was the time last week when she got up at 2:30 in the morning to dig at the carpet in the den.

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She wouldn’t be deterred and kept returning to the same spot.  When Hubby came home I mentioned it to him and he said he’d dropped the chip bag the night before.    Her lab nose knew that there was a corner of a chip wedged under the heater.

Of course we gave it to her. I mean, she earned it after all.

Can you think of anything I’ve forgotten?  Do you have a Devouring Delilah? How do you manage a food obsessed dog?

Many thanks to Jodi Chick from Kol’s Notes for the awesome blog idea and intro.

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