Heart Like a Dog

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

Wash, Wash, Wash The Dog…Day One Hundred and Thirty One

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There’s a little brook that runs along the side of the field where we take the dogs to play; it’s a dirty little brook but the dogs love it.  They love to run through the brook and occasionally Sampson lays down in it.  I’ve been trying to catch it on video but have been having a hard time with it until today.  I uploaded it to youtube tonight, but let it buffer for a minute or so before watching it; because I’m pretty new to this youtube stuff. (I also got Delilah’s agility run up and the video of how excited Delilah gets when she gets her dinner.

The problem with the dogs running through the brook is they get absolutely filthy!  So every time they go in the brook, we have to wash them off when we get home.  What I started doing was washing them outside.  I take an empty dog shampoo bottle, fill it with warm water and put a squirt of shampoo in it.  We then use the soapy water to wash them quickly and rinse them off with the hose.  Then we dry them off and let them in the house. 

I’m happy that the warmer weather is coming so they aren’t outside freezing, but the water from the hose is still cold!  Although as Chet pointed out, the brook isn’t warm water and they willingly go in there. :-0  Still I am calling the plumber to see how hard it would be to get an outside shower.

Where The Wild Things Are…Day One Hundred and Thirty

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Chet was outside working in the yard; I went out to ask him something and I noticed the neighbor’s dog.

Notice the tail....

Immediately I thought, “Isn’t the dog a little old to have his tail docked?”  Then Chet told that the dog had gotten loose and gone to the park at the top of the street and came back missing his tail.  Something ferocious that is not afraid to attack a large dog lives in the woods at the top of the street.  The poor dog had bite marks all over his tail.  The neighbor told Chet the story and also indicated, “This dog does not back down from a fight.” 

I have to admit, I’m a little freaked out.  Without knowing the entire story, such as the time of day the dog got away, if it was gone overnight etc…it makes me a little nervous taking my dogs up to the woods.  I’m not entirely certain that Delilah wouldn’t want to try to fight. I do carry  Pepper Blaster II and had really thought about it more for protection against the two-legged predator as opposed to the four.  From what I’ve read, it should work on a wild animal.

 I wonder what kind and size of animal might be up in the woods and hungry and vicious enough to take on a large dog.  I know you can’t tell from the picture but this is a decent size dog; I would say somewhere in the weight range between Delilah (78 pounds) and Sampson (97 pounds.)

Chet said he thinks the dog is part Chow....that is nothing to fool with.

I’m very grateful that most days/evenings Chet goes walking with us, still I’m a wee bit  nervous about taking my dogs to where the wild things are.

You Need A Tick Kit …Day One Hundred and Twenty Nine

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The other night when Sampson had the tick over his eye, Chet and I went crazy looking for our “tick kit.”  What is included in our tick kit is a nice pair of tweezers with broad, tapered ends and a “Ticked Off”, purported to be “The World’s Simplest” tick remover.   I must confess, it works pretty well.  Trouble was we couldn’t find our tick kit; so we had to make a new one.  When we have it; we keep our tick kit close by a covered glass jar, that has about a half to an inch of rubbing alcohol in it.  When I pull a tick off one of the dogs, it goes into the rubbing alcohol, where they eventually die.

Since we ran out of  Earth Animal, Bug off, I went online to see about purchasing some, Bug Off spray is listed at $26.99, the problem is that shipping is over $10!  So I sent Chet to Sweet Pea Pet Store to see if they sell it.  The don’t.  They did have something called “Neem Protect Spray”. Neem Oil is a known tick and flea repellent, so Chet bought some.  I don’t think it is as pure and natural as the Bug Off because it has Polysorbate 20 in it, but I think for now it will do the trick.

I think every house hold should have a tick remover kit, especially if you have dogs.  They are very easy (and pretty inexpensive) to put together, but can really come in handy should the situation arise where you need to remove a tick. 

My Tick Kit

 

Where they go to die...

 

If anyone is interested in trying out some Earth Animal Bug Off spray, let me know and I can order a couple of bottles, which should make it worth the while to pay for shipping.

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