Heart Like a Dog

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

Abstract Art

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One of the big reasons I started this blog was for all the crazy, funny things my dogs do that bring a smile to my face or a laugh to my lips.

Sometimes it’s not easy to write a full blog post about it and sometimes I forget to share.

Some posts will be You Make Me Laugh and others will be You Make Me Smile, but they will all be the silly, sweet, funny things Sampson and Delilah do that help make crazy days just a little bit easier.

Feel free to share what your pet does to make you laugh/smile in the comments.

photo-9 Delilah, when you push your bowl all around the house, enthusiastically licking it and the results are a beautiful display of abstract art; you make me smile.

Your turn, does your dog lick their bowl?  Delilah licks hers, then she licks Sampson’s and then she licks hers again.  I’ve found her bowl under the table, under the pool table, behind the breakfast bar, but this is the first time I found it on top of Sampson’s bowl.

Is it wrong to want to frame this picture?

I’ll Take Things You See on a Walk for $10 Alex

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I got my love of walking from my Grandfather.  So many cherished childhood memories involve walking the neighborhood with him.  (My love of thunder and lightening storms comes from him as well.)

The most important thing my grandfather taught me about walking was to keep my head down, because sometimes you find money.

Except I walk in the woods now, so mostly I’m watching out for hazards, such as roots, rocks, branches, poop and sometimes animals.  I also have to keep my head up to watch for other people, dogs, spider webs and wild animals.  It’s a fine line trying to keep my head up as well as keeping my head down.  Many is the time I’ve tripped over a root or rock.

Some walks are better than others.  It’s just the nature of the beast.

Take last Friday for instance.  Sampson, Delilah and I had just stepped into the field and Delilah was sniff, sniff, sniffing around.  I can always tell when she’s about to dive into something and sure enough, “Eck!  Leave it!” I screamed just as she dropped.  Sometimes I can see what she’s rolled in, other times I can’t.  Unfortunately for me, this was one of those times when I could.  Actually I looked down and saw the frog’s legs.

Ewwwwww.

I normally rinse the dogs off after a walk but rolling in frog legs meant shampoo because there was no way she’s going in my house with dead frog all smushed in her fur.

Le sigh.

We walked around the field and headed into the woods, then I noticed something else had caught the attention of both dogs.  Looking down I saw a smashed bird egg, sadly I could see the little embryo of the bird still inside the egg.  (If you’re not grossed out by such things, you can see the photo of the egg here.  Just scroll down past the really cute photos of my dogs.)

This is turning out to be one of those walks I thought to myself as I bent down and gently scooped the egg up into a plastic baggie.

A bit further along, I’m pretty sure Sampson was about to eat something vile, so I “Eck! ecked” again and while I was busy distracting Delilah from the eck Sampson was busy investigating this.

All from Camera 8-4-13 004 I was fairly certain it was a box turtle, but I always worry about snappers so I turned to tell Sampson to “leave it.”  I was so busy trying to distract the dogs and keep them out of trouble, that I almost missed this.

All from Camera 8-4-13 009 There was a book of matches not too far from it, so I’m assuming that someone went into their pocket to pull out the matches to smoke a cigarette and must have dropped their money.  Serves them right for lighting a match in the woods. 😀

I figure it was the Universe’s way of telling me to relax a little and enjoy my surroundings.

A few minutes later, I noticed a couple of trees had begun to turn their spring coats to the glorious colors of fall.

All from Camera 8-4-13 007

Can you see it?  The way some of the leaves have turned  yellow?

All from Camera 8-4-13 006

My footsteps a little lighter, my heart a little happier I headed for home.

Follow-Up Friday – August 30, 2013

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Follow-Up Friday, the blog hop that let’s you wrap up your week and leads you right into the weekend.

Follow-Up Friday Blog Hop

Follow-Up Friday Blog Hop

 

Joining me this week and saving my behind is the Fabulous Flea, who is the only flea I actually like.  Please don’t tell me you don’t know Flea, because if you don’t know Flea, you’re really missing out.  I’m not kidding when I say, every time I visit her blog, I leave with a smile on my lips.

Make sure you stop by and say hello.

It’s Here!

The Dogs of Blogville Calendar contest is almost over and it’s a hotly contested race between the Collies.

There’s just something about those Collies.

I’m sorry for those of you who have had problems with the voting.  The tool is a plug-in and I have no control over it.  If I run this contest again next year, I hope to find a better voting tool.  This one works, but it’s not perfect.  Ideally I’d like the photos to have the blog name and voting button all in one.

I did try and answer questions directly on that post seeing the voting period is so short.

So We Have This Snake

Emma has told me her mom is terrified of snakes so I’m not posting any photos.  🙁  Sorry Emma, I never intended to frighten anyone, I thought it was a funny story.  I’ll try not to post anymore snake photos.

Bren asked, “So how long before you move Nagini into the house in a tank?”

Um that would be never.  I can tolerate it in the wood pile, but never intentionally in my house.  True story, our neighbor feeds the racoons and foxes.  On Hubby’s walk the other night her daughter stopped him and said, “My mom heard you talking about a snake in your yard and she’s worried it might come into ours.”

REALLY?  YOUR MOM FEEDS WILD ANIMALS AND SHE’S WORRIED ABOUT A GARTER SNAKE?  WTF?  I’d be more worried about a rabid raccoon then I would about a Garter Snake happily ensconced in a wood pile.

Houndstooth said, “OMG! You said “wood!””

LOL yes, yes I did.  And I just said it twice more too.  Hang on, I’m looking for a way to use “unit.” **giggles**

Pam said, ” I want to see what kind of snake this is!”

Pam, here is a link to the original post.  It has a pretty good close-up of the snake.  I think I proved that I’m not brave enough to get any closer than I have too!  See Emma, no photos. 😀

Tuesday Just Got Tasty at Our House

I never know what to expect when Delilah takes over the blog.  As Donna mentioned on facebook she’s sassy.  Yes she is.  And she’s bold too.  You need never wonder what Delilah is thinking.

Sampson and I waited patiently in the kitchen while she sliced it up.

I’m thinking, give me some treats and give them to me NOW!

 

Doggy’s Style asked, “I wonder how was the smell in the kitchen. For dogs great I imagine, but for humans?”

It smelled pretty good actually.  Similar to a beef roast cooking.

Two French Bulldogs asked, “Do you ever rent out your mom?”

Um I’m pretty sure Delilah would not let me go without a fight. 😀

Frankie and Ernie said, “GARLIC? We keep hearing that we can’t have garlic… butt it is sooooooo good.”

I’ve heard this too, but I feed my dogs BugOff Garlic to help ward off fleas and ticks and my vet is aware of it.  My understanding is it’s the form of garlic ingested.  Like you should never eat a bulb of garlic.  But I would say that you should check with your own vet before you decide whether to use it or not.

The Fabulous Flea asked, “Where on earth do you find beef heart?”

Believe it or not there was a flyer in my Dr.s’ office for a local farm.  They had tongue too, but I just couldn’t bring myself to buy that.

Pam said, “Put some in the freezer? What? You didn’t demand it all right then?”

Delilah here, “Actually I did.  But she’s stubborn that one and doesn’t always listen to me.  It’s okay, I forgive her though, she’s amazing in so many other ways.”

KB asked, “I’m like your mom about treats – so how do you turn on the oven?”

Delilah again:  “I’ll be dogged if I know, but if I ever find out, I’ll be making my own treats!”

How Do You Define Your Brand?

Thank you all for the incredible comments.  The fact that so many of you get where I’m coming from and what I’m hoping to achieve here means a lot to me.  And you can certainly articulate it better than I can.

I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want this blog to make some money.  But it would have to be exactly the right fit, I mean you can be guaranteed that you will NEVER see an ad for something I don’t believe in.

Thank you, thank you for reading, commenting and coming back.  I appreciate and treasure your friendship.

That’s it for me, please check in on Sunday when I share something Delilah does that makes me laugh and that I’ve been trying to capture on camera for months.

Thanks to the Fabulous Flea for co-hosting with me and if you’d like to co-host yourself, please let me know in the comments.



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