Heart Like a Dog

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

Christmas Came Early

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As a  dog lover, never mind dog blogger, you are often exposed to the unsavory aspects of animal welfare.  Sometimes I can’t read them, the stories are so awful, and then there are the other stories.  The stories where good triumphs and everybody wins.

Yesterday was such a day for me.  The company I work for has their main office in Sanford, FL.  I love the gals in the home office and we have a great time every time I get down their way.  Yesterday afternoon I received an e-mail from my friend Di.

Jodi, this is my Christmas Present.  I rescued him on Saturday.  He is a PooChi or ChiPoo…Poodle and Chihuahua (spelling?) mix.  He was covered with urine and fesces (one picture of him like that) and was just getting ready to go thru the doors at the Human Society when I walked up.  The lady asked me if I was looking for a dog and I said I was….thus the story of Charlie begins.  He is six months old and has spent most of his life in a crate and has also been abused.  I immediately took him to the groomer and had him cleaned up.  I took him home and he is the sweetest dog.  He took to the family and the family took to him.  It was his lucky day because he is already spoiled after only two days in my house.  How can people be so cruel to these helpless little things! 

Meet Charlie

Christmas came early for Di and Charlie.

Isn’t he a cutie?  I’m so happy for Di and Charlie.  Bless you Di, I hope you and Charlie have many happy years together and thank you for sharing Charlie and his story with me. 

Christmas came early for Charlie and Di, can it come early for you too?

Welcome to Day 9 of the #Advent4Dogs Giveaway hosted by Kol’s Notes, Dogthusiast, Heart Like a Dog, NEPA Pets & Wag’n’Woof Pets. Today’s give away is sponsored by CloudStar.  Enter now for your chance to win a Treat Prize Pack (different in US/Canada due to import export laws) Open to: US/Canada.

Resized Day 9

But wait, there’s more!

Guess what?  We’ve got the Trivia Question today!!!  Ready?

Day 9 Trivia

Click either one of the pictures to enter your chance to win the Cloudstar prize pack.

One Man’s Trash – Celebrate Shelter Pets

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Shelter Pets

Today is Celebrate Shelter Pets day and I couldn’t let the day go by without celebrating my special shelter girl, Delilah.

Delilah -

Holy woof, are you going to complain about me again?

 I know, I know.  She’s a little bit on the crazy side, but there are many, many people who get normal shelter dogs that aren’t as crazy as this one. “-)  Besides if Delilah was like Sampson what the hell would I blog about? 

My girl came to us via American Lab Rescue in May of 2007.  She was found in a high kill shelter in Lousiana, sent to foster in Tennessee and eventually made her way to us.

We were told she was between 2 to 3 years old, but our vet guessed her age to be about 18 months.  Not having the benefit of knowing when she was actually born, our vet’s office listed her date of birth as December 1st.  We choose to celebrate Delilah’s birth on the 14th.  A day that is very special to me, as it was my beloved grandmother’s birthday as well.  

The rescue told us she’d been spayed but we discovered shortly after us that she wasn’t.  When she went in for her actual spay we discovered that she’d already had at least one litter of puppies.

Having spent the last 7 1/2 years with this amazing dog it simply boggles my mind how people can so casually drop a pet off at a shelter without a second thought.  Someone, somewhere lost an amazing opportunity to have a life filled with love and laughter, all courtesy of this amazing being.

You know what they say, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”  And Delilah surely is a treasure to me.

Welcome to Day 2 of the #Advent4Dogs Giveaway hosted by Kol’s Notes, Dogthusiast, Heart Like a Dog, NEPA Pets & Wag’n’Woof Pets. Today’s give away is sponsored by Hugs Pet Products. Enter now for your chance to win 2 Silicone Baking Mats and 2 Chilly Mats.

Advent Day 2

 

Today’s trivia question can be found at NEPA Pets.

 

If You Love Pets, You MUST Follow a Pet Blogger

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Last week I was super excited to receive a box of goodies from Hill’s.  Now typically you wouldn’t find a post about Hiill’s on my blog, as we are raw feeders and truthfully I’m not a big fan of Hill’s. MIND, I’m not knocking you if you feed Hill’s, I promise.  If it works for you and your dog, great!

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Check out the goodies in this box, 1-bag Kibble, 6-cans wet food, 1-doggie food bowl, 1-doggie blanket, 1-bag baked treats.  (This box of goodies I won in a give-away on Hound Girl.)

Full disclosure: I checked out the baked treats and decided that I could use those, so I kept them (in small amounts) for Sampson and Delilah.

So I’m sure you’re wondering just why I got all excited about the package, well even though I don’t feed Hill’s I know there are rescues and shelters that are always looking for donations.  And I was super excited to be able to donate my winnings to a local rescue in my area.  As I was scoping the box out I remembered I also won some dog food from Keep the Tail Wagging and that should be coming in the next month or so!

This got me thinking, how important it is for animal lovers to follow bloggers, whether they blog or not.

Because Bloggers work with sponsors and a lot of Bloggers have contests and product giveaways!  Granted it may not be something that you can use for yourself or your pet, but food, toys, beds, etc can be donated to shelters or rescues in need.

Heck, even other items can be donated to shelters and rescues for the purposes of raffles, tag sales or auctions.  It’s a win-win for everyone involved.

Like right now, a number of my fellow bloggers are doing a Zuke’s giveaway.  I mean Zuke’s is awesome but if for some reason your pet doesn’t eat/like Zuke’s why not enter to win anyway.  Treats make great Christmas gifts for the pet lover in your life and if you don’t have anyone to give them to, you could donate them to your local shelter and help dogs like this gal, who is currently looking for her forever home.

 

All her information can be found in the link under her picture.

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