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This ‘N That Thursday (9-27-12)

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Today we’re joining our friends over at 2 Brown Dawgs Blog for This ‘N That Thursday.  As 2 Brown Dawgs says, This ‘N That Thursday is for 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

 

A BIG Thank You to our friends at My Brown Newfies!

Last week we won a dental pack give-away hosted by MBN.  Monday it was sitting in the front door when I got home.  Check out the stuff in this packet!

Dental Pack Give Away

 

A Dogs rule shopping bag, travel mug and two key chains.  A package containing a tooth-brush, tooth paste and two finger brushes.  Three packages of different sized Dentastix and coupons for five more free packages of Dentastix!

We we so excited to get our package and want to say thanks again to our friends at My Brown Newfies!

Facebook.

I have a question for you.  How do you deal with ignorant people on facebook?

One of my ‘friends’ on facebook is anti pit bull.  When I post pictures of pitties, he will comment negatively on them.  Tuesday he posted an article regarding a pit bull in Texas, that killed an infant.

Rather that respond rudely right off the cuff, I read the article and then commented, something like, if you read the article it said police were responding to a domestic violence call, which in itself should be an indicator of the environment in which the dog was raised.

He then commented he just liked to ‘stir the pot’ to which my daughter responded, ‘you’re stirring the wrong pot.’

After I had thought (and stewed) about it, and conversed with my daughter I decided to remove the article from my wall.

My stance is that I don’t want some first time fan finding my page and then thinking I am anti pit bull.

How do you deal with ignorance when confronted with it?  Do you think there was a better way I could have handled it?

Twisted Awards

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Our friends over at Dogs N Pawz nominated us for not one, but two awards!  I mentioned in last Sunday’s post that I had more awards to share, and I thought today would be a nice day to do so.

The first award is The One Lovely Blog Award.

Thank you most kindly to our friends at Dogs N Pawz.

The rules for this award are:

Thank the blogger bestowing the award and provide a link back to their blog.

Share seven things about yourself.

Share the award with seven other bloggers.

  • My favorite non-alcoholic drink is seltzer water.  Plain old seltzer water.
  • I like my seltzer (and water when I have it) to be served at room temperature.
  • My favorite alcoholic drink is Tequila.  I love it in Margaritas but am also quite content to just throw back some shots. 🙂
  • My favorite way to drink coffee is with Irish Cream, I will settle for Cafe’ Petrone if the Irish Cream is unavailable.
  • Fall is my favorite time of year, spring is my second favorite.
  • I love to bake, especially in fall.
  • I suck at tweeting.

The second award we received from Dogs N Pawz was the Beautiful Blogger Award.

Thank you again to our friends over at Dogs N Pawz.

The requirements to this award are thank the blogger, provide a link back to their blog and nominate seven other blogs.

Sharing the links is always the hard part for me, as there are so many blogs that I love reading.

Vizsla Inspiration – Anna the photographer and Luna her four-legged side kick. Anna and Luna are always perfecting a new trick. I seem to recall she taught Luna how to close the refrigerator.  Maybe I should just send Delilah to Anna? 🙂

Talking Dogs Blog – Not only does Sue make some pretty dog-gone awesome jewelry, at least once a week she features an adoptable dog from her local humane society.  I’m putting some of her pieces on my Christmas wish list. 😉

Oh Corbin – What can I say.  I love Corbin, I love how he looks and I love how his mom fosters.  She is awesome and works really hard in rescue to make sure her pups find their forever homes.

Murray’s Mouth – I recently started following this blog.  She’s got a dream for a dog park too.  🙂  Her latest post has some great cost saving tips, to help your furry friend’s budget in these tough economic times.

Bassa’s Blog – I have it from a reliable source our little Caucasian Shepherd is going to be two years old very soon.  She finds the most interesting things on her daily walks with the tall person.

Fabulous Flo – Flo is a fabulous Rhodesian Ridgeback and if her craziness wasn’t enough, her mum just added a second little (for now) Ridgeback to their pack.  I think little Elsie is creating more havoc than Flo ever did!

Little Dogs On Long Leashes – It really is a dog blog.  Recently she’s been sorting through her treasures and taking us on a trip down nostalgia lane.  She promises the dog will have something to say in the very near future. 🙂

Like I said in the beginning, it’s the awards with a twist.  And here’s the twist. 🙂

I know that sometimes these awards really make their way around blogville and while I tried to check and make sure you haven’t just received this award, I’m giving you the option of choosing which award you’d like.

I look forward to seeing your choices and discovering more great blogs, which is the really neat thing about these awards.:-)

Well we’re off for our daily walk, happy reading!

I’ll leave you with a couple of pictures of what the dogs chased yesterday morning.

It took me a minute to locate him way up there on the tree.

 

A zoomed in shot, you can see his little glowing eyes.

 

I’ve seen them run a short way up a tree, but I’ve never seen one climb so high. Did you know they can climb trees?   What’s the most interesting thing you’ve ever seen on a walk?

Dogcula

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I spent some time on youtube last night looking for some positive training methods of teaching a dog to take a treat gently.

Honestly you’d think after five years of screaming in pain every time we give Delilah a treat, one of us would learn.

Either we would figure out how to teach her in a way that she’d remember, we’d learn to tell her easy or she would learn how not to amputate fingers when she took a treat.

It is one of the harder aspects of using positive reinforcements for me.

Yes it’s true.

Delilah is Dogcula.

I am constantly cursing because she’s bitten my finger.  Last winter I couldn’t figure out why my middle finger kept hurting.  (While it’s true I do use that finger frequently, it’s not being used in a manner to cause pain…for me.)

Last night when giving her a treat, she drew blood.

Granted it was a small puncture, but it bled none-the-less.  After treating it with antibiotic cream, I spent some time on youtube looking for some positive methods to teach a dog to take a treat gently.

None of the videos I watched really taught me much (okay, you caught me, I only watched two, but neither one was very helpful.)

I gave up on youtube pretty quickly because I’m just lazy I’d much rather turn to my friends and see how they manage their dogs.

What’s a few fingers when I’m so stinkin’ cute?

 

So tell me, do you have Dogcula’s living in your house, or have you taught them to take treats gently?  If so, how did you do it?

I thank you and my hands thank you.

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