Heart Like a Dog

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

Co-Hosted Follow-Up Friday

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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Co-Hosted Follow Up Friday Blog hop, the blog hop that let’s you wrap up your week and leads you right into the weekend.

https://www.heartlikeadog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/follow-up-friday.jpg My co-hostess this week has co-hosted many times before, she recently moved her blog to self-hosted, so I’m hoping she has no problem getting the code to work.

Please make sure to stop by and say hello.  It’s Gizmo and his Mom from Terrier Torrent.

Welcome, welcome and thanks for co-hosting with me today!

Approaching Fearful Dogs – Author’s Note

Since Sampson came into my life I’ve learned a lot about dogs and yet I still learn something all the time.  Truthfully I haven’t met a lot of fearful dogs in my life.

But I always make a point to ask the owner if I can approach and pet their dog before I do.  To me it’s just common courtesy.

I know from some of you, that people don’t always show proper courtesy and even then, some that ask will still approach your dog.  I guess all we can do is keep trying to educate.

Delilah-2, Misto Can-0 – Author’s Note

I’ll tell you, I can leave that Misto can on the counter for months and she never bothers it, then BAM one day all bets are off. 🙂

I was happy to discover that a couple of you have dogs that love oil too, or at the very least lotion.  Both my dogs love body lotion.  If I let them, they’d lick it off faster than I can put it on.

I call that, Licky, licky lotion.

That video cracked me up.  Honestly, while I was filming it, I actually almost reached over and gave her a boost, she was so determined. 🙂

And a super-duper thank you to Snoopy who recommend the Viper Video thingy plug-in, I installed it Wednesday night and it ran like a champ!!

You the dog, Snoopy!!

Wordless Wednesday, Caption the Photo – Update

You guys had some great captions!  I loved this one from Julie, “What did I come in here for?”

Here is mine:

IMG_1069 I don’t get the whole Blair Witch thing, what’s so scary about someone facing a corner?

But those of you who made the food connection….yes he does this after his breakfast.  He sits or stands and stares at the counter as if more food will magically rain down on him.

Poor little underfed dog. NOT.

This ‘N That Thursday, The Video Edition – Author’s Note

That was a HORRIBLE Rally Run.  There was at least four times where I totally messed up and had no idea what I was doing.

But Delilah WAS amazing, and she really was looking to me for guidance and that is priceless to me.  Of course the fact I had some yummy chicken treats in my hand didn’t hurt!

Ariane says they will be offering the class again and once they’ve had two classes they will set up some runs so people can really practice.

What I need to do is print off the Rally signs and then work with Delilah on them so we can enter a match.  Of course, we’ll have to wean off the food as there is no food allowed in the ring. 🙁

That’s it for me, how was your week?

This is the Co-Hosted Follow-Up Friday where the co-hosts rotate. 🙂  Anytime you’d like to join us, just drop me a line or leave me a comment.

This Friday’s blog hop is hosted by Terrier Torrent and Heart Like a Dog.  Follow-Up Friday



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Sleep In Sunday…NOT

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Like most of you, we get up fairly early during the work week.  Hubby’s alarm goes off at 5:30 and mine goes off at 6:00.   Our dogs are used to getting up around 6:00 for a potty break, having a couple of treats and then heading back to bed until breakfast is served, which in our house is at 7:00.

On the weekends, Hubby and I like to sleep in.  Sampson and Delilah don’t differentiate between Saturdays and Sundays, so Hubby and I have devised a system.  I get up with the dogs Saturday morning while he sleeps in and he returns the courtesy on Sunday for me.

Except this weekend Hubby went away.  He left yesterday morning around 3:00 am.  So at 6:00 am yesterday I got up and let the dogs outside to potty, stoked the fireplace and went back to bed.

Until 7:00 at which time I was woken up with some very deep sighs…from Delilah.

Hmmmmmmmpf!

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmpf!

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMFFFFFFFF!

Of course I got up and fed them.

Sometimes I really wish I wore a helmet cam.

You know a little camera on the top of my head so I could record the antics of these two.

They. Are. Funny.

Hysterically funny at times.

So this morning when they woke me up at 6:00, I got up and let them out, stoked the fire, fixed their food, fed them some cookies and went back to bed.

I brought the camera with me so I could record Delilah’s sighing.

Did she accommodate me by sighing?

No.

No she did not.

I spent the next half hour listening to her chew on a bone, while I rubbed Sampson’s ears.

Chewing 1 Don’t mind me, I’m just getting my chew on.

Chewing 2 Stop your whining, I’m a good three feet away from your ear, I’m not that noisy of a chewer.

Rubbies 1 Now that feels good.

Rubbies 2 Oh yes, chin scratches, what’s better than chin scratches at 6:30 am?

Rubbies 3 I’ll stop being so cute if you get up and feed us.

They won.

Do your pets let you sleep in on the weekends?  How do you help them adjust to the weekend vs week day schedule?

Co-Hosted Follow-Up Friday

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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Co-Hosted Follow Up Friday Blog hop, the blog hop that let’s you wrap up your week and leads you right into the weekend.

https://www.heartlikeadog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/follow-up-friday.jpg My co-hostess this week has co-hosted many times before, I’m always grateful to have her and I always love reading stories about her Brown Dawgs.

Many thanks to our friends at the 2 Brown Dawgs blog for co-hosting with me this week.

Rub-a-Dub-Dub – Author’s Note

It’s great hearing all the code people use when talking around their pets.  It never ceases to amaze me how smart our pets are.

When my pups get their nightly treat Delilah takes hers to the living room and Sampson gets his in the bedroom.  There was this one night where I put his treat on the bed and went into the kitchen.  He came strolling in and looked at me and I said, I set your treat up on the bed, go ahead in I’ll be there in a few minutes.

I’ll be damned if he didn’t head right into the bedroom.

What’s Yours Is Mine – Author’s Note

As Pamela stated, “Copyright is changing and bloggers need to be part of the discussions.”

Each blogger has their own idea of how they want their work shared.  The creative commons license gives you many options to choose from, personally I think putting a creative commons on your blog let’s others know loud and clear what your expectations are.

What I forgot to add in that post is this picture of Sampson was included in the picture book I wrote, “And Along Came Sampson.”  It’s copywritten along with the book.  Did you know you could copyright pictures?  I didn’t either.

Copyright S9

I Like Sticks – Author’s Note

I was really happy to read that most of your dogs eat weird stuff and throw it up too!

Somehow that didn’t sound right.

I meant it’s not unusual for a pet to eat something it shouldn’t and then throw it up.  Hey, he could be like Freighter and eat throw rugs. 🙂

One Word – Author’s Note

It’s so weird, when I first read about the one word challenge immediately Heart popped into my head.  I’m touched and humbled how many of you thought it was a perfect choice for me.  And I appreciate that so many of you feel I am already putting my heart into this.

Personally I can’t think of a more perfect word to focus on this year.

For those of you who chose a word to focus on this year, please feel free to leave me a comment or drop me an e-mail and let me know how your journey is going and if I can help you in any way.

I noticed after I posted this that Melanie’s blog said she would stop making buttons after January 31st.  But she made mine last weekend. 🙂 So I figure it’s worth a shot if you want a button to display on your blog.  If Melanie won’t make one, I’ll make one for you.

Just let me know.

This ‘N That Thursday – Update

We are truly blessed to have such a beautiful area for hiking and I’m grateful for the longer days when we have the opportunity to get out.  There is something about walking in the woods that helps me decompress far better than a walk around the block does.

And yes, I’m going to seize those opportunities whenever I can.

That’s it for this week’s Co-Hosted Follow-Up Friday, many thanks to The 2 Brown Dawgs blog for joining us today.
 



 

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