Heart Like a Dog

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

Dogs of Blogville Calendar Contest

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So at long last (at least it seems like that since the idea first fermented in my head) here is the Dogs of Blogville Calendar Contest.

Here are the rules according to me:

  • One vote per IP/Cookie per 24 hour period (if I set the voting portion up correctly, this will work.)  If I didn’t please be kind and follow the rules.  This is a fun event to raise money for some fellow bloggers, so please be fair.
  • Promote this contest, just because you only have one ip/cookie address doesn’t mean you can’t promote this on your blog and through your other forms of social media.
  • Voting begins today at 6:00 am, and it ends next Saturday, November 24th at 6:00 am (once again that’s if I’ve set the voting plug-in up properly.  If I haven’t I will go in and manually close the poll.)
  • The proceeds from the sale of the calendars (after production costs and shipping) will be donated to our blogville friends in need at Life with Desmond and Champion of My Heart.  How much the proceeds are will depend on how many calendars are sold. I’d like to keep the cost at about $20 per calendar (including shipping) the more we sell the less we pay for the calendars and the more we can donate.

Some random stuff you might want to know.

As of right now I think I will be using Vistaprint to make the calendars as I am very familiar with their products and have had good luck with them. If anyone has any better printing options PLEASE contact me directly or leave it in the comments.

When you are promoting this contest, please let your followers know that they will be able to purchase calendars also.

Anyone that wants to purchase calendars, send me an e-mail at stone.jodi@ymail.com and I will send you my paypal information.

I will not order a calendar for you unless you have already paid for it.

My goal is to have the calendars into as many hands as possible by Christmas.

Well here they finally are. The dogs of Blogville.

 

 

I’d like to thank all the bloggers who participated in this event, they are:

1 – Ginger from Daschies With Moxie

2 – Frankie and Ernie from Frankly Speaking

3 – Ryder and Kori from All Things Collie

4- Fozzie from Peaceful Dog

5 – Toby from Just Toby

6 – Molly from Molly The Wally

7 – Aladdin from DOGnormous

8 – Queenie from thecvillean

9 – Emma from mygbgvlife

10 – Schatzie from My Girlz Got Paws

11 – Cupcake from Cupcake Speaks

12 – Elka from The Elka Almanac

13 – Cali from The Daily Dog Blog

14 – Shiva from Rescued Insanity

15 – Maia and Titan from Misty Shores Chesapeakes

16 – Mazzie from Mazzie Takes Manhattan

17 – Blueberry from Spotty, Spotty, Polkadotty

18 – Honey from Something Wagging

19 – Mollie from Mollie and Alfie

20 – Sampson and Delilah from Heart Like a Dog

If I left anyone out or made any mistakes, please let me know!

Let the voting begin.

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This ‘N That Thursday – 11-15-12

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Today we join our friends at the 2 Brown Dawgs blog for This ‘N That Thursday.

“This ‘N That Thursday is for those times when you want to post about unrelated topics or each topic isn’t quite long enough to make up a whole post.  It can be anything you want, so feel free to grab the button and join us!”

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog

 

Apologies and Thanks:

I’m way over due for this.  First I have to apologize to Molly the Wally. Sunday, November 4th our Gone to the Dogs (Human Shaming) post was the focus of share it Sunday. If you’ve never heard of Share It Sunday, go check it out.  Every Sunday Molly the Wally showcases a post from someone else’s blog. (Her post today is James Bond related, and I have to say, totally brilliant.)

We have to thank our dear friend Mazzie (and her able assistant) from Mazzie Takes Manhattan for nominating us for Share it Sunday. While I did send Miss Mazzie a message thanking her, I should have thanked her properly in a post.

With all the excitement of the Blogville Calendar along with the work going into the book challenge, I simply fired off the required information and left it at that.  Not making excuses, it’s just the way it happened.

I was reminded of my manners by our friends at 2 Brown Dawgs who properly thanked Miss Molly the Wally.

Dear Miss Molly, I apologize profusely for not acknowledging your generosity, and do hope you will find it in your heart to forgive me and I do thank you very, very much for showcasing us on your blog. (BTW the photo your mom submitted for the calendar is adorable!)

Tricks for Treats or Treats for Tricks?

Delilah and I started a tricks class on Tuesday night.

I always have a case of the worries going into a new class, but Delilah seemed fine.  We learned four tricks: paw, high-five, wave and paws up.

The first three tricks are all deviations of paw.  The last trick, paws up is asking your dog to put their front paws on a chair. No surprise here. Delilah picked that one up quicker than you can say banana chip.

I started giving Delilah the verbal cue almost immediately with this one, since as soon as I held a treat over the chair she put her paws on it.

The instructor came by to check and said, “Wow, that’s great.”

I said that’s because she’s constantly got her paws up at home, I’m usually screaming OFF! (She likes to climb up on the couch and check to see if Hubby left any good snackies up there.)

Our instructor said sometimes by teaching the behavior it stops the unwanted behavior because they will only do it when cued.

From your lip’s to God’s ear instructor, and I do hope you have a direct line.

While we were waiting for class to start, I took this picture with my cell phone.  Delilah’s so dark that I usually find it hard to get a good picture.

I love this picture though, I think it’s very complimentary.

I see you holding that treat, why don’t you just give it to me, I’m cute.

 

Have you ever had any doubts about teaching your dog something?  How did it turn out?

 My word count is 20,089.

Whoo Hoo Wednesday

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When I first initiated WTF Wednesday it was based on a story I read about a man stomping on a hawk.  Thankfully the hawk wasn’t terribly injured, the man in question was apprehended by police and I wrote a scathing, humorous (at least I thought so) post.

The next couple of weeks I found other stories or people forwarded them to me and before I knew it, I was writing a weekly series.  People left me comments, on the blog and on facebook telling me how much they loved WTF Wednesday.

More and more the stories started to become depressing and hard to write, which is when I added in the Whoo/Hoo portion of the post, it gave me a respite from the horrific things I was reading.

With the time constraints I have on me this month, and the little time I get on facebook (thank you for all of you who called me out,) I decided to put WTF Wednesday on hiatus.

In last week’s WTF comments, Sue wrote, “I am beginning to edit what I see/read because I just can’t take any more cruelty stories. I don’t know if the world has become a more cruel place (I think it has) or if more is reported these days, but there’s too much violently bad news for me.”

That really hit home for me, because the stories have become more vile and disturbing, and it’s hard to even read some of these stories, never mind write about them.  More and more I’ve struggled trying to write the WTF Wednesday post.

Then Monday, Pamela wrote, “The Puppiness Project – Time To Say Goodbye”  Pamela has learned a lot from her dog Honey and she’s written more posts than she initially expected and she has shared them on her blog.

The line that really touched me was this one, “But lately, I’ve felt less enthusiastic about writing my Puppiness Project posts……I’m uninspired.”

That my friends, just about sums up WTF Wednesday for me in a nutshell.  I don’t look forward to them anymore.

Am I saying I will never write a WTF Wednesday post again?  No, never is a long time. Besides I have this spiffy badge that my friend Julie made for me.

Graphic Designed by Julie Melfi, Creative Leg Up.

 

What I am saying is when I see the story about a dog that shot a hunter in the ass, I will call him out and tell him how stupid he is for turning his back on dog with a gun in his paws. 😉

Because when you’ve lived as long as I have, you know the next WTF is just around the corner.

You may notice the title of this post is Whoo Hoo.

I do like to share heartwarming and inspiring stories with you, so I picked out a couple that really spoke to me this past week.

I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

Rescued Michael Vick Dogs Reunited Five Years Later, CA

A bunch of the dogs rescued from the Bad Newz Kennel met again last month.  What inspires me the most is despite the horrific beginning these dogs had, they have gone on to live happy lives filled with love.  That my friends is the true heart of a dog.

(Image Credit: Mark Rogers/www.markrogersphotography.com)

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People give donations for dogs seized in Bethlehem, Bethlehem, CT

If I were writing WTF post this would have probably made the cut.

The bad news is there were about 60 dogs removed from a man presenting himself as a rescue, the good news is that people are sending in donations and the dogs will get the help they need.

And how can you beat this title?

“Seeing my dog the day I got back from Afghanistan,”

Grab a tissue, it rained on my face when I watched it.

Has your blog ever evolved in an unexpected way?  Did you ever start something and then found you really had to work at it?  How did you manage, did you just work through it or go in a different direction?

Book count: 19,025 words.
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