Heart Like a Dog

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

Christmas Eve

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It’s Christmas eve, hopefully the majority of you who ordered are receiving your Blogville Calendars today.  I apologize to our friends in Canada and the United Kingdom as I could not get priority shipping to you.

I know everyone’s busy, so I want to keep this really short and sweet.

First I’d like to thank Julie Melfi.  Without Julie this calendar wouldn’t be.  So when you get your calendars and you love them, stop by Julie’s blog and show her a little love. 🙂 (And if you ever need any graphic art work done, I highly recommend her.)

For those who didn’t order (or those whose calendar will take a bit longer) here is a picture of the cover.

You remember Kori and Ryder, the won the spot on the cover.

You remember Kori and Ryder, they won the spot on the cover.

 

Then I’d like to thank all of you who ordered.  We sold 43 calendars and collected $952.79.  (Money exchange from the U.K. made the odd amount) some people wanted to donate more than the actual cost of the calendar which explains why we collected almost $100 more than expected.  Thank you!

We found a great printer that printed and shipped the calendars for $285.85, I spent $98.78 to ship them out to all of you, which left our donation at $568.16!!

You may remember the proceeds were to be divided equally between Life With Desmond and Champion of My Heart.

Grab a tissue now, because I want to tell you what happened.

I reached out to both bloggers.

Lauren had known about the fund-raiser, but Roxanne had no idea.  “I did NOT know about the fundraiser. Thanks so much. We’re humbled and honored by your efforts.”

I sent her half the money via paypal and received this message “Thanks so very much. That will pay for one round of Lilly’s chemo injections and one month’s cyclosporine pills.”

I still hadn’t heard from Lauren and damn it, I knew she was online. 🙂

Then yesterday afternoon I got this facebook message,

“Hey jodi, yes I am aware if the fundraiser. I’ve left a few comments on your posts. Perhaps they went to spam? In any case, I think what you and everyone has done is incredibly sweet and thoughtful. My honest feeling is that I really think Roxanne should benefit from the entire amount. The troubles she is facing are so much more intense and heart wrenching than ours. We are OK; we are displaced and will be for quite some time–we would like to fast forward 6 months and move on, but she is likely wishing she could stop time if not travel back in it to before the vaccine. Her vet bills are not going to be covered by insurance the way our house is. I really want it to all go to her. I would, however, love a copy of the calendar if possible. Again–thank you so very much.”

So I sent the rest of the money to Roxanne and am sending Lauren’s calendar out this afternoon.

I didn’t think you’d mind.

Isn’t this blogville family amazing?

This ‘N That Thursday

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Today we’re joining our friends over at 2 Brown Dawgs Blog on 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

Tuesday Night Tricks Class

You may remember last week I showed a picture of Delilah balancing a banana chip on her nose.  There is a second part to this trick, it’s having your dog catch the treat, once you’ve given the release command.

Her eyes are focused on that treat!

Her eyes are focused on that treat!

 

The way you teach this is to throw treats at your dog and tell them ‘catch.’ This is supposed to be pretty easy to teach as the reward is instantaneous.

Delilah does catch fairly well (if my toss is good) and she has managed to balance the treat on her nose 9 out of 10 times.

But she doesn’t quite understand the dynamics of the two tricks together.  If I put the chip on her nose and don’t hold another treat in front of her, instructing her to wait, she will snap at the treat almost instantly.

If I tell her to wait long enough so I can get my fingers out of harm’s way, she sits there with the treat on her nose and doesn’t understand that I want her to catch the treat.

We’ll keep working on this. 🙂

I mentioned in yesterday’s post that we were working with a hula hoop.  When I went into my camera to find the video of the treat, I realized I had a video of her and the hoop. It’s not the greatest, but you will get the general idea.

The ultimate goal would be to have her jump through the hoop at different heights.

Dogs of Blogville Calendar

Just a quick update.  I ordered the calendars last night, they will be printed after the proof is approved (which should be sometime today,) as of right now it doesn’t look like the calendars will be here in time for Christmas. 🙁

I will do my best though, I intend to get all the labels ready this weekend, so when the calendars do arrive, I can get them out the next day.

I of course will keep you posted and let you know as soon as they ship. I did go into the ordering post and took the order form out, because I cannot accept any more orders at this time.

I also have to tell you that they are simply GORGEOUS and it is all due to the amazing and extremely talented Julie Melfi.  Julie did the entire design, from adding the print to the photos, selecting the design, the arrangement and the upload (and probably a whole bunch more stuff that I have no idea of.)

This calendar could NOT have happened without Julie Melfi.

I highly recommend Julie for any of your website or graphic design needs.  She is truly amazing.

Thank you, Thank you, THANK YOU JULIE MELFI.

I cannot wait for you to see the calendars, they are better than I ever dreamed they could be.

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