Heart Like a Dog

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

Thanksgiving Thursday

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Today we are participating in the special edition of the This ‘N That Thursday blog hop hosted by 2 Brown Dawgs and Ruckus the Eskie.  Thank you to our hosts.

Before I tell you what we are thankful for, I have a couple of quick things to discuss and then we’ll let you get back to time with family and friends.  After-all, isn’t that what this holiday is all about?

Advent Calendar for Dog Lovers

You may have noticed a new badge in our sidebar.  It is the Advent Calendar for Dog Lovers badge and this year I am as excited as all woof to tell you that we are co-hosting this AMAZING event.  Pulled together by the brilliant and extremely talented Jodi Chick of Kol’s Notes, and joined by other amazing bloggers such as Emma from My GBGV Life, Jen from My Brown Newfies and Gizmo from Terrier Torrent,  the Advent Calendar is going to be an amazing extravaganza!!

Beginning December 1st and continuing every single day until December 24th, you have a chance to win a whole bunch of different prizes!

That’s right, I said Every.  Single. Day!

What’s more, the grand prize package (yes, there is a GRAND prize) is worth over $800!  All the details will be available December 1st on Jodi’s blog, but don’t worry, any day that we aren’t hosting the giveaway we will have links to the blogger who is.

So remember to check back daily.  Because let me tell you, there are some awesome prizes!

Black Diamond Necklace

The other event I’m excited to tell you about is an auction taking place right now on Bringing up Bella.  Leslie won a beautiful black diamond, paw-print necklace and she’s auctioning it off with proceeds going to Save a Sato, an organization working tirelessly in Puerto Rico to save street dogs.  You are probably aware that Leslie’s darling Bella is from Save a Sato, so this cause is near and dear to her heart.

In order to up the ante, Leslie has agreed to match the bid (up to $500.)  A necklace this beautiful won’t last long, so hurry over and place your bid today!

What we are thankful for.

I’d just like to take a minute today to share what we, at Heart Like a Dog are thankful for.

First we are thankful we have each other.  Sampson and Delilah bring such joy and laughter into my life every day, they truly are blessings.

We are thankful for family and friends whom we hold dear and we count you, dear readers among them.

We are thankful for the material gifts we have, even though at times we struggle, we are grateful for food, shelter and basic living necessities which so many in today’s world are lacking.

We are thankful as always for our military.  For our men and women who at a moments notice will leave family and loved ones to protect us from those who would do us harm.

Today, on this day of thanks we salute you.

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From all of us at Heart Like a Day, Happy Thanksgiving!!

What are you thankful for today?

Matchmaker, Matchmaker

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Welcome to This ‘N That Thursday, hosted by 2 Brown Dawgs and Ruckus the Eskie.

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog

 

Matchmaker, matchmaker make me a match

Do you remember the awesome Pet Blogger Gift Exchange from last year that was created and hosted by Something Wagging This Way Comes?

If your new to blogging, or just plain haven’t heard about it (do you live under a rock?)  You can read all about last year’s exchange here.

Well guess what?  It’s back again!!  And I for one am super excited, what a great opportunity to get to know a fellow blogger and share a little holiday love!

I’m not even kidding

You may remember that last year Heart Like a Dog was paired with a cat blog.

A. Cat. Blog.

Once I got over the shock of it, I found out that Cokie the Cat was totally awesome and his mom Kristin is awesome too!

Sadly Cokie passed earlier this year but Kristin continues to blog, in fact she’s got a brand new site up.  I’m not even kidding.  No really, that’s the name of her site, I’m not even kidding. It’s a fun site, with giveaways, gift ideas and a whole lot more.  Pop on over and check it out!

Our Christmas Card

You may recall I had computer issues earlier this year.  I had some pictures on the old computer that I thought would be perfect for our Christmas card.  Except when I finally got around to retrieving them, I’m not exactly sure it will work.

Chimney

What do you think, is it worth putting this in PicMonkey and seeing if I can enhance it a little?

Follow-Up Friday

Tomorrow is Friday, the day when I highlight comments, answer questions and wrap up my week.  Co-hosting with me tomorrow is none other than Donna, from Donna and the Dogs!!

Sampson’s Puzzled – This ‘N That Thursday

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Today we join our friends at 2 Brown Dawgs along with their co-host Ruckus the Eskie for This ‘N That Thursday.  2 Brown Dawgs says it’s a little of this and a little of that and anything in between!

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog

Delilah and I are back in Nosework class again!!  

Tuesday night Delilah and I started Advanced Nosework.  For those unfamiliar with this sport, Donna from Donna and the Dogs has a small series running on her blog that explains this sport.

In our beginner class our hunts/finds were strictly food.  This time around we are introducing birch.  I’ll have a full post on how we’re doing that coming up soon.

In the meantime, here’s Delilah back in the classroom setting.  She’s just like her Mama, she loves to learn!

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Why are you making me wait?  I see the boxes in the middle of the room, let’s work!

 Then there were two.

Two weeks ago as I was taking my grandson home Hubby warned me of a dead deer in the road.  I don’t know about you but seeing any animal lifeless on the side of the road, just about breaks my heart.  It is so sad.

I worry about the deer.  The herd is getting smaller and smaller.  When we first moved to our home seven years ago there was a herd of about eight deer.  The last time I saw deer running in the woods there were three.

Last week the dogs were going ballistic and I looked out the window.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Looks like the herd is down to two.

Jigsaw Puzzles

Do you like jigsaw puzzles?  I recently got into jigsaw puzzles on my iPad.  Sadly the one I loved didn’t update their app for the new operating system Apple came out with so I’m still in the market.  If any of you have a jigsaw app for your phone or iPad that you love, would you please share it?

In the meantime, I found this picture of Sampson standing on a trail of leaves and thought, that might make a pretty challenging puzzle.  What do you think?

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Puzzle? You’ve got me puzzled with that thought Mama.

Follow-Up Friday

For those of you participating in tomorrow’s blog hop, my co-hostess is once again, the only Flea you wouldn’t mind hanging around your dog.  Yes, it’s Flea from Jones Natural Chews!

Join us tomorrow as we answer questions, highlight reader’s comments and wrap up our week!

Many thanks to 2 Brown Dawgs and Ruckus the Eskie.

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