Heart Like a Dog

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

Follow-Up Friday Blog Hop

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Once again Follow-Up Friday is not co-hosted.  The week just got away from me. 🙁  If you are interested in co-hosting please let me know, and any of my previous hosts if you’d like to repeat, I’d love to have you.

Follow up Friday, you know sometimes you post something that needs a follow-up or sometimes someone leaves you a comment and it sparks a new thought.

Yup, Follow-up Friday.  Grab the badge and link up.

Follow-Up Friday Blog Hop

 

Dogs of Blogville Calendar Contest – Update

This is a hot contest between Kori and Ryder from All Things Collie and Schatzie from My Girlz Got Paws.  They are only separated by 13 votes.

All told we had 20 dogs enter the contest, Val had a great suggestion about including all the dogs in the calendar and I think it will work.  So this is how it rolls out.

The top vote getter will be on the cover AND inside the calendar.

The 12 photos with the most votes will be inside the calendar (one per month) and the remaining 8 dogs will be on the back page.

And I just realized that when I set up the polling I called Ginger from Dachsies With Moxie, Angel.  So when you vote for Ginger, the results show her as “Angel.”  I’m sure this is a Freudian slip as her mom has told me she has gone to the bridge.

My apologies to Ginger and her mom.

Reflections and Shining Star – Author’s Note

I love my dog. I hope it shows in my writings about her.  Yes she can be frustrating at times but deep down, she’s a good dog.

A Day of Thanks – Update

I had a great day with my family yesterday, we were only missing my youngest daughter and her husband, who will be home for Christmas, my sister and her husband and a great-niece and nephew.

Hubby and I took the dogs for a walk in the morning, before everyone arrived.  I caught Sampson rubbing his head on something gross and I knew he needed to be washed.

Once we got home I realized Delilah had ROLLED in something, her fur was all stiff like she had frosting in it, so the dogs who HATES baths, got one.

Just what I wanted to do before having a houseful of people. 😉

It only made sense to give Sampson one too.

Delilah is challenging when there is food around, for the most part we contained her fairly well while we were eating.

After dinner, however, she really stepped up her game.

After she helped herself to creamed spinach and turkey gravy, I put her outside and listened to her bark while we finished cleaning up.

Sampson had enough and found a cuddle buddy.

Do you celebrate Thanksgiving?  What traditions do you have?

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A Day of Thanks

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Today is Thanksgiving here, in a few short hours we will gather family and friends together and sit down to enjoy a meal together.

I’ve many things to be thankful for, not just this year but every year.  I have family and friends who love me, a wonderful blog family, a roof over my head, a decent home, a job, not to mention two wonderful dogs who I love dearly.

Throw in an (almost) five-year old grandson who still thinks going to Mimi’s house is the greatest gift in the world and an (almost) two-year old granddaughter who can now say, “I ol you Mimi” and it doesn’t get much better.

Yes, those are all wonderful things to be thankful for, and I am grateful for them every single day.

I thought today, it’d be nice to share something other than the traditional things that one normally is grateful for.

I wanted to write a beautiful piece about all the unsung heroes who get taken for granted every day, with little to no thanks.

  • People like our soldiers who sacrifice personal lives to protect our freedoms and uphold the motto, “Land of the free and home of the brave.
  • Firefighters and policemen and emergency personnel who work regardless of holidays to keep us safe.
  • Doctors and nurses working tirelessly in the hospitals to save lives.
  • Animal rescue workers who are out on the front line, experiencing the horrors that I myself can’t handle, helping those that can’t help themselves escape from the cruelty of man.

And all of those, I can’t think of.

Yes, I wanted to write a beautiful piece but somehow the words wouldn’t come, instead I offer this, a simple yet heartfelt thanks, and wish you all a safe and Happy Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Heart Like a Dog!

 

Are there any unsung heroes, that you can think of?

Shining Star

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Last night Delilah and I had our second tricks class.  Can I tell you something?

Delilah and I have had our share of go-rounds.  You know it, because I’ve shared it here with you. Even with the challenges she’s faced, I know deep down in my heart what a good dog she is.  And there is one place where it shows.

My dog shines in the classroom setting.

We walk into the classroom and she is focused on me, waiting and watching and willing to learn.

Our task was to learn three tricks last night, play dead, roll-over and crawl.

I forgot my point and shoot, so I had to use my cell phone, which isn’t easy to work when you’re the one doing the training.

Our instructor was quite pleased with the progress we made playing dead and rolling over.  She then asked if she could borrow Delilah to show us how to teach them to crawl.

I giggled a little inside because I’ve been trying to get Delilah to crawl for about four years.

Yup, she got out there and crawled across the floor.

When I got home I had Hubby take a video of us doing each of the tricks. Please excuse the poor lighting and my messy housekeeping, I just wanted to show you what she learned.

(Excuse my ass.)

There was a new woman in our class last night. From what I could tell her husband was supposed to meet her there with their dog but he got stuck in traffic, so she just hung out observing.  She happened to sit right near Delilah and I and we ran into her on our way out.  She asked if she could pet Delilah and then she said, she has such a calming peaceful effect.

I said, REALLY?  I don’t think so.

But the more I thought about it, the more I realized she really is a shining star.

Is there an area where your dog shines?

Have you voted in the Dogs of Blogville Calendar contest yet?

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