Heart Like a Dog

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

Food Motivated Dogs – A Blessing or a Curse?

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First, I want to apologize to you all for not getting around to visit your blogs lately. It’s been a busy couple of weeks, with a lot going on. (More on part of this on Wednesday’s post.) Hopefully things are settling down, and I’ll be back to catching up this week.

One of the things that kept me busy this past week, was a work event. Wednesday I had the opportunity to get some overtime at work. One of my engineers asked me to attend a public meeting in a town about an hour and a half from my house. Because I had to be at the meeting for 6:30 PM, I didn’t have the chance to go home first to walk the dogs.

I had to get a dog walker.

You guys know me, I trust very few people with my dogs.  I could go to one of those dog walking websites, or I have a friend whose sister walks dogs. I also happen to know my friend’s sister, so Aileen came over last Sunday to reacquaint herself with the dogs.

I gave her as much information as I could. Showed her where leashes and harnesses are kept. Where to find poop bags. Which dog goes out which door (Sampson out the back, and Delilah out the front). I showed her where the treats were and told her it was up to her if she chose to use treats or not. While she was here, we walked around the neighborhood, and I pointed out all the DADO houses.

Honestly, I was as comfortable as I CAN BE leaving my dogs in the care of someone else.

Wednesday as I was driving to my meeting, I was tempted to text Aileen to see if she had gotten there yet. To see how the walk went, how the dogs were. BUT, I WAS driving, so I restrained myself.

Thankfully, just as I arrived in town, I received a text from Aileen. The context of which made me laugh out loud.

Aileen: All went well, I just got back with Delilah. They both peed several times and pooped once. I’ll lock up, leaving now.

Me: Thank you SO much.

Aileen: I gave them water and treats too…Delilah walked me to the closet to remind me.

Hubby laughed just as hard as I had when I shared the story. Honestly, there are blessings and curses to having food motivated dogs, but if there’s anything you can count on, there will be laughs.

You make me laugh or smile, the sweet, funny, loving things dogs do that make us laugh or smile.

What did your pet do to make you smile this week.

Lots of Smiles

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I’ve been posting You Make Me Smile posts for over three years. That’s a lot of smiles, yo!

There have been times, I’m sure, when I’ve done the same or similar post, because honestly, I’m not keeping track.

And there are weeks, when I think, I have nothing to post that I haven’t posted already. Even though these guys really do make me laugh every day. I just don’t always capture it in a picture.

Then there are weeks when the dogs just comet through for me. Maybe on a day when I look down and see that Sampson is fully under Hubby’s chair.

Golden Labrador

So under, that Hubby can’t get out of his chair.

Let’s check this from a different angle.

Yup, he’s well and truly under that chair.

Of course we laughed. He’s just such a silly dog.

You make me laugh (or smile). The sweet, funny, loving things my dogs do that brings a smile to my face, or a laugh to my lips.

What did your pet do that made you laugh or smile this week?

Where Does a Fourteen Year Old Dog Sleep?

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Sampson turned fourteen at the end of July. We’ve always used that, dogs age seven years for every one human life rule. If that in fact were the case, Sampson would be 88 years old.

Of course, I wanted to be sure, so I consulted Dr. Google, and found this article from the AKC. According to this, Sampson is 84 years old.

Either way you look at it, this dog is in his eighties. Now, like most people in their eighties, my puppy boy is slowing down. In fact, he only goes outside to do his ‘business’ twice per day. Once on our morning walk, and once on our evening walk.

You follow? This guy only pees every 12 or so hours.

I bet most eighty-year-olds pee a lot more than that. Honestly, I’m 58 and I pee when I sneeze, cough, laugh, walk…

Both walks combined, take no more than an hour, and that’s assuming we stop to chat with someone on our afternoon walk.

Sampson eats, twice a day, and that takes about all of 20 minutes. He gets one snack (a frozen Kong) around 9:00 pm, which takes him 10 to 15 minutes to eat.

If you add it all up, and factor in the times we come home from work, the times we are moving about, let’s be generous and say, he’s awake 4 hours per day.

Which leaves the other 20 hours for….?

Sleeping.

Yes, my boy sleeps, and he sleeps A LOT.

There are two dog beds in my living room, and a dog bed and a crib mattress in my bedroom.

Delilah typically chooses one place to sleep, and stays there. Sampson on the other hand is a mover. He gets up many times throughout the day and night, and changes position, or he changes the area he is sleeping on. Sometimes he’s on a bed, sometimes he’s just sleeping on the floor.

Sometimes I look at him, and the position he’s in, and I wonder, just how comfortable it is.

Like the other night, when I went to give him his Kong, and he had to extricate himself from the table of all places.

Naturally, I laughed. He’s such a silly guy.

The title of this post asks, “Where Does a Fourteen Year Old Dog Sleep?”

Answer: Anywhere he wants. 🙂

You make me laugh or smile. The sweet, funny, loving things dogs do that brings a smile to my face, or a laugh to my lips.

What did your pet do this week that made you smile or laugh?

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