Heart Like a Dog

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

The Path Less Taken

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When we got up yesterday morning it was snowing.

Again!

A slow, lazy snow that drifted down and covered shoveled paths with a light layer.   We didn’t care, it was Saturday and we wanted our walk.

With eager hearts we set out for our park.  I had scoped it out a few days ago and could tell that people had been going in.

They got in fine and boy were they fast, they were out of sight before I even got a foot in. I wanted to document the entire trip, but I figured you’d get tired of my panting and the sound of my ski pants rubbing together.

I opted for my favorite trail. As it turned out, it was the path less taken by others, but we forged our own trail.

I took a couple of videos only because it was so funny watching the dogs hopping through the snow.

There is something so majestically beautiful about the woods all covered in snow.

It was a peaceful walk, with lots of time for quiet reflection.  Just what I needed to get my creative juices flowing again.

To have a heart like a dog, you can’t be afraid to blaze your own trail.  Sometimes the path less traveled is exactly where you’re supposed to be.

Rub-A-Dub-Dub

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Like most households with dogs, there are certain words you just can’t say.  Of course the same holds true for households with children or grandchildren but generally they’re not the same words.

Depending on your dog and your lifestyle they may deviate slightly from other dog households but generally there are some words you just can’t say around your dogs.

In our house, they are words like hike,walk, and ride to name a few.  These are generally referred to as H-I-K-E, W-A-L-K, R-I-D-E, (as we spell words in order to communicate with each other, without alerting the dogs to what we are thinking

In Delilah’s case, we need to spell out things such as D-I-N-N-E-R, B-R-E-A-K-F-A-S-T and any other food related word.

Sampson is so smart and picks up so many words that we’ve taken our code to a new level.

W-A-L-K has now become W – shortened to DUB.

The other night I looked at Sampson and said, Do you want to take a dub?

And Hubby said, “Oh sure, go ahead and teach him that, so we can’t say that either.”

Good point Hubby.

Last night Sampson and Delilah were wrestling.  They’re loud when they wrestle.  Well actually Sampson is the vocal one, Delilah is very quiet.  It’s always the quiet ones you have to look out for, isn’t it?

Anyway, the TV is on, the dogs are wrestling like it’s their job and I said to Hubby, Do you want to dub?

All activity stopped and Sampson’s ears perked right up.

  IMG_4076 Sort of like that, but he cocked his head to one side.

Hubby and I looked at each other and laughed.

It didn’t take him long to learn that.

What kinds of words do your dogs pick up on?  Do you have any code words you use to help you communicate with each other, so the dog doesn’t know?

Let’s Pretend

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Today we once again join our friends at 2 Brown Dawgs for This ‘N That Thursday.  Some days there’s a little of this or a little of that, but not enough for a full post.

Thank you 2 Brown Dawgs!

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog

Let’s Pretend

Let’s pretend that I’m like Jen at My Brown Newfies and that I actually think in advance to buy props and stage a Valentine’s day photo shoot.

Let’s pretend that once I’ve taken the photo, I can actually use a graphic image program to tweak that photo just a tiny bit.

Are you getting this?

Good!

Let’s pretend that this is a really awesome photo showing my dogs lying together in the shape of a heart.

Go ahead and laugh, I'm a writer not a graphic artist.

Go ahead and laugh, I’m a writer not a graphic artist.

Are you done laughing?

Okay, then I promise I’ll do better next year.

Unless I don’t.

Snow challenges

Sampson and Delilah have a little yard routine they do when they hear or sense someone or something outside.  Our yard is pretty large and normally they run out the door, down the deck stairs and up along the fence line. I call this synchronized running and if they ever offer it in the dog Olympics, I’m entering my two.  (One day I hope to capture it on video, because it really is amazing.)

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Then they station themselves at some point along the fence and observe or bark at whatever they please.

And there are other days when they burst out the door and one runs the fence line, while the other one runs up the stairs.  I guess this is their Hawaii Five-0 “you go this way, I’ll go that way” approach.

Our back yard is mostly hill.  Up hill as you may or may not be able to see from the photo.  The dogs can get back there either by running the fence line or by the stairs in the back.

After Charmo hit, there was no place for the dogs to potty, so Hubby used the snow blower and made a path around the house and a small area off the deck, but he didn’t blow along the fence line.

IMG_4051 While the snow is beginning to melt, there is still a lot of it!

IMG_4052 These are the stairs up back, I haven’t had a chance to shovel them yet.

So the other morning when Sampson got his dander up and charged out the door I said, “Where you gonna go?”  Then I laughed as I watched him run from one side of the house to the other via the snow blown path.

This morning however, I noticed Delilah tentatively (VBP) picking her way down the fence line.  Apparently the snow has melted enough for her to attempt the backyard.

Hold tight, I’m still working on that video. 🙂

Many thanks from our friends at the 2 Brown Dawgs blog for This ‘N That Thursday.

Do you plan photo shoots for your dogs? What kind of programs do you use to watermark or tweak your photos?

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