You make me smile (or laugh), the sweet, funny, loving things my dogs do that make me smile or laugh.
Delilah, the way you wear your slobber like a fashion statement…
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You make me smile.
I don’t know how she does it. She is constantly drooling on our walks and somehow she ALWAYS ends up wearing it.
Do you have droolers? Do they drool on their walks? What’s up with that?
Welcome to this week’s edition of Follow-Up Friday, the post where I highlight reader’s comments, answer questions and generally just wrap up my week.
You Make Me Smile – September 6, 2015
Fiddle dee dee, someone come and pet me.
It was a hung jury on this one. Half of you have dogs that don’t mind the vet, while the other half have dogs that hate it. Here are some of your comments.
Lauren Miller (ZoePhee) said, “They hate it! It’s so sad! I used to work there so they know something bad will happen if we go to the “room”.”
Sheena said, “Moey poops and tries to climb me like a monkey in a tree! (me being the tree) He hates going to the vet as much as he hates going to the groomer!”
Cupcake said, “I do the same thing, S. And when they finally come bearing sticks to put in my butt, needles to stick me with, and lights to shine in my ears and eyes, I don’t hold it against them. ”
Jan said, “My guys are obnoxious from the time the car stops until we leave the parking lot. They need Sampson lessons.”
Rebekah said, “Neeko and Faolan are excellent. Bruce draws a crowd, because he’s such an ass. He always wears his party hat (muzzle) to the vet.”
Taryn said, “I’ve never had a dog that was happy to be at the vet’s office. Mine have to be dragged in! It is pure torture for them!”
Blueberry’s Human said, “Blueberry likes some parts of it – not all. Usually, when they call her to go back, they weigh her first. After she is done getting weighed – she ALWAYS tries to make her exit”
Rub a Dub Dub, Two Dogs in a Tub (Sort of)
If I run fast enough, she will only see a silver streak.
Cupcake said, “No carpet, but not to worry. I get the water off me and onto the couch.”
That’s using your ingenuity Cupcake! Sometimes Sampson uses the couch too!
2 Brown Dawgs said, “We never bath brown dawgs unless they run into something stinky…say a skunk. ;-)”
Poor Storm. 😉 Your dawgs are in the water a LOT. I think they probably don’t need a bath. LOL
Taryn said, “For two dogs who love to swim, mine despise baths! And, OY!, the shedding that happens after a corgi gets a bath, let alone TWO corgis!”
Yah know! Delilah loves to swim too, but hates the bath. And trying to get two LABS outside to potty in the rain…LOL
Elaine said, “Aren’t they funny how they try to avoid things sometimes by slowly walking off like they hope we don’t notice what they’re doing?”
LOL Oh yes. One second she’s standing there and the next second she’s gone.
Emma said, ” Bailie also knows when she is all lathered up, it is the perfect time to escape since she is as slippery as a greased pig. Mom really enjoys trying to hang onto her when she is all soaped up.”
I’m sure it’s the highlight of your Mom’s day Emma. LOL
Jan K gave Luke and Cricket baths too, this is what she had to say, “I let them outside after a few minutes, and first thing Cricket did was roll in the grass (at least not the dirt), and Luke did zoomies just like Delilah!”
The first thing Sampson did was try to roll around on the deck. It was covered with dead leaves, acorns, twigs and God knows what else. You can guess that I stopped that right quick!
Jan said, “We mostly just sat under the air conditioner register and read to each other.”
Damn, I knew poodles were smart, but how did you teach them to read? 😉
All Things Collie said, “We just discovered a new pet supply store that has three “do it yourself ” dog washing stations. For $10 you can give your dog a bath using their shampoo, water and raised bathtubs. Much easier on our backs!”
I’ve heard of those! I’m not sure if there are any near me, I’ll have to check it out. I think $10 is a really good price too!
Nose to the Grindstone – Barks and Bytes
A wee little mousey.
Vicki Stringfellow Cook said, “Last night, I let Zora out before bed. I could tell there was something out in the yard, so I got the flashlight. Two deer were standing underneath the crabapple tree. They froze when I shined the light on them, but luckily Zora just stood there looking at them.”
Thankfully our yard is fenced it. Although we did have a deer jump the fence once. But even so, the dogs run the fence line when they see a deer on the outside. Good thing Zora didn’t want to chase them!
Ann Cluck said, “We have a family of deer that have lived here for years and they are kept safe by the neighborhood. One dusky night, sure enough, there was a doe and her tiny fawn standing in my backyard!!! Of course, Lady Girl went bat shit (I used that word because you did, BOL) and I had to fight to stop her from going full run at them.
OMG I’m glad you were able to contain her, and please feel free to use bat shit or whatever you like here. I like keeping it real. 😉
We Live in a Flat said, “The town councils sometimes cull bird populations by spreading poisoned food around, so no food off the ground is any uptight pet parents’ policy around here.”
UGH that’s awful! I’d never be able to walk Delilah, she’d be dead before we went a block!
Lauren Miller said, “Zoe is the same way as Delilah. A lot of the time I will use the “give Phoenix treats” method to get her attention.”
Sometimes it’s the only thing that gets her attention!
Elaine said, “Delilah is a treasure hunter! She finds all kinds of goodies with her nose to the ground method. She’s like a canine metal detector!”
I only wish she could find MY KIND of treasure. LOL
Flea said, “Send Delilah to my house, will ya? I have a mouse problem and my own dogs aren’t taking care of it. Maybe I’m giving them too many treats …”
Maybe you should see if Jones can make mouse flavored treats and then your dogs would have a taste for it. 😉
Jenna, Mark “HuskyCrazed” Drady said, “LOL oh boy! I know all too well what you mean about pulling weird stuff out of the dogs mouth!”
OMG Isn’t it the worst? So it’s not just a Lab thing?
Jan K said, “Delilah’s walking style reminds me a lot of Luke’s. I just got back from a walk with him when he jumped in the air (for no apparent reason…) and I jumped too because he startled me! LOL He’s pretty good about his “leave it” when he finds stuff, but when he gets fixated on something, I sometimes have to literally haul him off of it.”
LOL Jan, I jump when she jumps too! It’s easy to do, especially when you live in the areas that we do where you can be encountering any manner of wildlife. And yes, I’ve had to grab her by the harness a time or two myself.
Jan said, “My Poodle Misty actually killed a mouse on our walk several years ago. I almost had it stuffed and mounted to prove that Poodles are indeed still hunters.”
BWA HA HA, I would have loved to see the look on that taxidermist’s face when you brought him that mouse. Honestly, I’m a bit afraid with Delilah, I’m not sure if she would just kill it or if she’d try and eat it too.
Monika said, “Ah, yes…mousies…the ‘other’ white meat. We had one in the garden yesterday and Sam did the Wiley Coyote/Roadruner cartoon double take. Had I not nearly fallen over from laughter at his reaction, I’m sure he’d have had that little critter by the short hairs. ”
The OTHER white meat! LOL I love it. So are you saying he like looked at it, looked away and then looked back at it? I think I would have wet myself.
2 Brown Dawgs asked, “You rewarded her for not coming? At least she did not eat the mouse.”
I think I did. 🙁 (Hangs head in shame.) I know it was wrong and typically I do not reward either of them if they don’t respond immediately, but I was so relieved, I lost my head.
Well friends, that is it for me. Thanks for joining me and have an awesome weekend!
Often times when I’m walking my dogs I think about the differences in their personalities.
Delilah can easily be distracted from most things by reaching my hand into my treat bag. If she is totally focused (like say on a cat or something) sometimes the simple act of reaching into the bag does not work. In that instance, I start feeding treats to Sampson. Usually after a couple of crunches or “Good Boys” her focus is broken and her focus comes back to me.
Sampson on the other hand, sees another dog and loses his stuff. Sometimes feeding Delilah treats is NOT enough motivation to distract him. I literally have to walk up to him and stick the treat in front of his nose and lure him away.
When we walk, I try my best to keep the dogs on the inside of me, and when a car approaches, I hold the leashes close so there’s little chance of one of them getting hit by the car. On our walks, Delilah ALWAYS takes the inside track, meaning she likes to be closest to the curb. I’m not sure how much of that is our training (she’s a left side heeler) or the fact she wants first dibs on any manner of disgusting items she finds on the side of the road.
If they stop to sniff something and somehow Delilah ends up on the outside, they walk a few steps and switch places. It’s actually pretty cool to watch. Sampson on the inside and Delilah on the outside, and within five steps, they’ve switched it up.
A lot of these times Delilah has her nose to the ground…like this.
Nose to the grindstone.
I really have to try and keep my eyes sharp, because somebody around my neighborhood feeds the birds with bread. Not just bread crumbs, but large hunks of bread. Apparently they never got the memo that most bread is bad for birds!
Most times in our travels Delilah finds something she deems edible. And I’m stupid, because I will shove my hand down her throat to keep her from eating it. I can’t even begin to tell you some of the shit I’ve pulled out of this dog’s mouth/throat. (Hmmm, maybe that’s a blog post….LOL)
Then there are other times in the process of her scavenging when she finds things that make her jump. I know it’s mean to laugh, but I can’t help it. (I consider it payback for all the shit I’ve pulled out of her mouth). A LOT of times when she jumps, it’s like a cat, all four feet off the ground. 🙂 (Those are the times I laugh the hardest, because siriusly, that’s funny shit right there, a 70 pound dog jumping like a cat.)
And then there are other times when she finds things and we both jump. And I laugh again. First at her and then at myself.
Saturday was one of those days.
We were almost home, in fact we were right at my next door neighbor’s yard. Delilah had her nose to the ground and was hugging the curb.
SUDDENLY, Delilah popped up off the ground like a cat and at almost exactly the same time, something else popped up out of the road. I (being so well versed in the various types of wild life living in a rural area brings) jumped and squealed like a little girl.
A wee little mousey.
It was a small field mouse. I could tell by the way it stayed there, pressed against the curb that something wasn’t quite right with it, but there wasn’t much I could do about that.
What I could do was call Delilah off it, because once she got over her initial fright, she wanted back at that mouse. It was one of those times when the rustling treat bag, Sampson’s treat crunching, my Good Boys and coaxing of her wasn’t going to cut it. I had to literally take her by her harness and gently lead her away, after which I liberally rewarded her.
Of course, she headed back for the mouse, because, well she heard they taste like chipmunk. 😉
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