Heart Like a Dog

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

Snarky Dogs

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We had our first play date with another dog at our house yesterday. 

I was a little nervous as to how Delilah would react, so we wanted to introduce the dogs in the best way possible.  I’ve heard all kinds of ways to introduce dogs, but this is what we decided to do.

Since the new dog, Pheebs was female we introduced Sampson first.  As I’ve mentioned previously Sampson is very good off leash so Hubby brought him outside and made him wait while our friend got out of the car.  Then he released Sampson to welcome our guest.

Then Sampson noticed Pheebs in the car so our friend opened the door and Pheebs jumped out.   After a quick greeting, she started running around the yard and then she ran up to the front door where Delilah was waiting.  When she approached the door Delilah started gnashing her teeth, barking and growling.  🙁  This really wasn’t a surprise because Delilah tends to be snarky with other dogs when there is something between them.

I opened the door and Delilah came charging out, but after a quick few seconds where both girls stood stiffly still sniffing each other they were off and running.

I opened the gate to the back yard and all three dogs ran inside, where they continued checking each other out.  Then we opened the door from inside the house and they all came inside.

As it turns out I didn’t need to worry about Delilah at all.  She and Pheebs were fast friends, they played like Sampson and Delilah usually play.  Everywhere Delilah went Pheebs was right behind her.  🙂  It was so cute.

Sampson was the snarky one. 🙁

What's Your Sleep Number?

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Every night around 9 PM the dogs get their stuffed Kongs, after about 20 to 25 minutes of working at them, Hubby and I will offer to help, because sometimes those baby carrots get stuck together and they can’t work them out. 🙂

My niece slept over last night in order for us to be up bright and early for our traditional Christmas shopping.   Because she was here last night we deviated slightly from our routine.

Sampson apparently got tired of waiting for someone to come and help him and he brought his Kong out and threw it at my feet. 🙂

Sampson absolutely adores my niece so he refused to go to bed when Hubby, Delilah and I headed off to dreamland.  I would have thought I’d have a much better sleep without him plastered up against me in the bed, but that wasn’t the case. 

I woke up with an aching back.  I guess my sleep number is adjusted to accommodate an 85 pound lab.

Follow-Up Friday

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For those new to the blog, my follow-up Friday provides me with an opportunity to update or revise a post from the previous week.  You know sometimes you post about something and you need an update but it doesn’t warrant a whole blog.  Or sometimes someone made a comment that really resonated with you.  Yup, Follow-Up Friday baby. 🙂

Cooperation – Update

Every night I enter the house with my cell phone (in video mode) in my hand, hoping against hope to catch Sampson doing that special something, but he continues to thwart me.  Tonight he sort of did it when my sister came over but it was really dark and it didn’t turn out!  Drat! I guess I just have to keep trying…maybe at Christmas. 🙂

Kreativ Blogger Award – Author’s Note

The first requirement to accepting this award is to thank the giver.  Which in my haste (and stress) to find 10 random things about me, I forgot to do.  So a GINORMOUS word of thanks to 2BrownDawgs for presenting us with the Kreativ Blogger award and secondly please accept my apologies for not thanking you sooner. 

If you have a minute pop over and check out her blog, she has two awesome Chessies and they are presently nesting in anticipation of a new puppy. 🙂

One For The Team – Update

My finger is feeling much better and is way more comfortable bending.  This morning when loading the dogs in the car for daycare, I reached for the hatch to pull it open and Sampson jumped and the hatch smacked him right between the eyes on its way up.  Then he looked at me as if to say, What the hell did you do that for?”

I’m hoping our hatch stories are behind us. 🙂

So how was your week?  Anything exciting you haven’t share yet?  Like puppy names? 😉

 

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