Heart Like a Dog

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

You Make Me Smile – August 9, 2015

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You make me smile (or laugh), the sweet, funny, loving things dogs do on a daily basis that brings a smile to my face, or a laugh to my lips.

It’s not always my dogs that make me smile.

For the last week our youngest daughter and her dog, Beau have been living with us. (More on that and how the dogs have gotten along later in the week.)

Beau and our daughter spend an awful lot of time together and on those occasions when she must leave him home, he is NOT happy about it.

So….Beau, the way you pout when your ‘mom’ leaves you…

You make me smile.

First he sat in his bed with his back to the door.

First he sat in his bed with his back to the door.

After a couple minutes of that he laid down, still with his back to the door.

After a couple minutes of that he laid down, still with his back to the door.

Your turn, what do your pups do when you leave them? Do they just roll with it, or are they pouters like Beau?

Follow-Up Friday, August 7, 2015

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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 – August 2, 2015

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It’s my signature look.

Jan K asked, “LOL….how does she do that? It has to be running with wild abandon that causes the drool to wrap around their noses!”

I think it’s because she shakes her head. Oh, and of course, she’s always drooling on a walk. LOL

Emma said, “My sisters and I don’t normally drool, although Bailie will if forced to wait for food but it just runs out of her mouth and onto the ground like a faucet!”

Ugh, yes, sometimes Delilah’s drops, like on my feet or on my leg. It’s so gross!

Glennis said, “A real slobber chops! She must shake her head a lot to spread it around so.”

Yes! I wonder why she can’t shake her head when she’s not drooling? 🙂

Elaine said, “I think Delilah has mastered the drool slinging technique, lol! Does she ever get the foamy mouth phenomenon?

Only rarely and usually if she’s running a lot. 

Blueberry’s Human  shared, “It makes me smile (and also, gag a little) when I am sitting there eating something I plan on sharing with Blueberry and she sits there drooling and the box fan is on high and it blows her string of saliva onto my leg. Magical moments, I treasure them.

Oh my, you made me laugh. One of my magical moments is when they sneeze in my face. That is also treasurable. 🙂

That’s Just How We Roll

Golden Lab Waits for Walk

That’s just how we roll in the ‘hood.

Lauren Miller said, “You sound like me! I really love my late night walks because no one is outside and my dogs are better on the leash, too!…If you notice any more scooting, you might want to have her anal glands checked.”

Yes, the lack of distractions definitely makes for a better walk. Ah yes, anal glands. 🙂 She does have a tendency to need hers expressed, but it was a done a couple of weeks ago, in this instance I’m pretty sure it was a dingleberry. 😉

Taryn said, “Well, at least it doesn’t sound like Delilah left a big skid mark across the driveway. Those are really hard to remove with a poop bag 😉”

LOL no, definitely no skid marks!

Callie, Shadow and Ducky’s Mom said, “Ouch! Scraping her bum across the driveway?? That had to have hurt! Poor D-Dog! Hope she finally got rid of it, whatever “it” was!!”

Oh she sure did. She sat right down in the road and bit whatever it was off. LOL

Mary asked, “It’s never boring in your world, is it? LOL”

Nope. Come, sit, stay. You will be entertained. 🙂

Blueberry’s Human said, “I’ve kinda missed talking about poop like this. Thanks for satisfying my “fix”. 😉”

Oh hey, you know it’s always real here. And really, poop makes the best posts!

Caren Gittleman said, “When you live with a Sheltie, it isn’t a matter of being “old” (but we are lol), or “having our hearing aids turned off” (which thankfully, we don’t have, YET)…it’s just that Shelties bark at leaves, pebbles, imaginary creatures, (you get the idea). If I went to the window ALL of the time, I’d never get anything done! Well, he isn’t THAT bad…but……….he sees the same dogs here every day and goes ballistic each and every time one takes a poop within his range. :-)”

LOL my dogs bark at imaginary things too and I don’t check every single time, BUT if they had their faces smushed to the screen at 6:00 AM, I would definitely be checking. 😉

Jan asked, “Did you know those are called dingleberries?”

I did not. Thank you Jan, I can always count on you. 

Jan K said,”Video of that is the only thing that could be more fun than reading it!! I can picture the camera panning between the smushed-face dog barking away, Delilah, and you, all set to – the music of Deliverance?…I think Delilah is messing with you and that dog…there was nothing stuck back there….she just knew you needed some blog material! LOL”

I actually changed the ring of the timer now, it’s a little ding, ding, ding. LOL I’m glad you enjoyed the read and I bet video would have been funny.

Jen Gabbard said, “I would laugh my ass off If I saw that scene, especially as Deliverance starts to play. I’m wondering now if Laika’s poop problems are due to grass, I swear she gets more dingleberries than any dog I’ve even known. And of course when she gets them she acts like it’s such a shock and the scariest thing ever, so she scoots around like a mad woman.”

Oh don’t you LOVE when they look back there like, WTF? It cracks me up.

The Devil On My Shoulder

Jan K said, “I’d love to know what that woman was thinking as she realized that you weren’t going to turn around this time!”

Oh me too. I was tempted to say (quite loudly) “No, no, Sampson, I will feed you breakfast when you get home, you don’t need that little dog.” But thankfully the little devil didn’t win that one. 😉

Monika said, “Sometimes I want to take those retractable leashes and wrap them around the owner’s neck and then beat them with their phones! ”

Holy smack. I’m with you on that one. About a (or so) ago, we had a labrador mix on a retractable leash. They must have dropped the leash and yes, the retractable leash ‘chased’ the dog and it was missing for a few days. They finally found him deep in the woods, that retractable leash had somehow got stuck on a tree. He was dehydrated and pretty bitten up by insects, but he was found. I had all I could do not to comment on that post about the leash. LOL

Jenna, Mark “Husky-Crazed” Drady said, “I know what you mean about reactive dogs. I have them too. And yes, I “prefer” to walk them each seprately, but theres just not always time for that. So I know how you feel!”

It’s just a lot of time when you have multiple dogs. If I was only doing it once per day, per dog, then it wouldn’t be too bad, but they both expect two walks per day. And don’t even try to leave one of them home. 🙂

Well that’s it for me peeps, have a great weekend and be sure to come back next week to find out the winners of our Omegease giveaway! 

The Devil On My Shoulder – Barks and Bytes

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The Devil On My Shoulder

Sampson and Delilah get walked together, twice a day. Ideally I would love to walk them separately but most days I just don’t have the time.

During the week our first walk is before I leave for work in the morning and our second walk is on my lunch hour.

Both of my dogs can be dog reactive.

Sampson sees a dog and wants to run up and greet it. Depending on the dog he will often times jump about showing his enthusiasm and desire to greet said dog.

I'm a happy dog since I started taking Omegease.

That’s what dogs are supposed to do.

Delilah’s trigger is mostly if a dog comes up to her and sticks its nose in her nether region when she’s not expecting it. Okay, really, are you ever expecting a nose in your nether region? (If you are, please don’t comment, that’s really a rhetorical question.) She will also sometimes react when Sampson reacts and this is mostly if it’s a dog we haven’t seen before.

We’ve worked really hard at getting past the yard dogs, but we’ve had little to no success in passing dogs that are walking on the street. Let me clarify that by saying, I’m pretty certain Delilah could do it, but I really need to work on Sampson. If Sampson wasn’t reacting, I’m almost 100% certain, she wouldn’t either.

Most of the time when I see someone heading towards us with a dog(s), I turn around and go the other way, usually urging Sampson and Delilah with “Go, Go, Go.” And I’m not quiet about it. (I’m also frantically looking over my shoulder, so if you’re paying attention you probably realize I want to avoid you.) 🙂

I’ve recently discovered there are two women in my neighborhood that also walk two dogs, but they walk them separately. I assume it’s because walking two dogs is challenging and not because they only have one leash.

One of these women has two small dogs. I’m going with Yorkies, but I’m not 100%. This particular woman walks her dog on a retractable leash, and she doesn’t pay much attention. We had a run in with her during the winter, where her little dog was zig-zagging all over the road, and I had to pull my two over into someone’s driveway and ask her to take her dog across the street. Since that encounter, when I see her, I turn right around and head the other way. I know this is going to sound harsh, but really, I don’t have time to deal with her or her dog.

Okay, the stage is set.

One day last week the dogs and I headed out for our morning walk. As we headed down the hill, I saw the woman ahead of us with one of her dogs. She was walking away from us going back towards her house. Sampson saw her and naturally increased his pace, but she was way ahead of us. I drew a great sigh of relief in and continued on our walk.

Hang with me peeps, I’m getting to the mean part.

We were returning home with only one way to go, when I saw her again, walking a little dog. (It was then that it dawned on me she was walking them separately.) The woman had her phone in hand and was concentrating on the phone, the little dog walking behind her.  I stopped where we were to give the dogs some space. Her little dog stopped to stare up at my dogs and Sampson of course, issued a verbal greeting.

Up there, up there, I see a dog!

Up there, up there, I see a dog!

The woman stopped, saw us and started walking again. At that point I started walking towards her.

Her little dog stopped again, but the woman didn’t. She reached the end of her leash and felt the weight resistance, turned around and looked at her dog, then she called her dog but the dog didn’t move. Meanwhile the little devil on my shoulder urged me to keep on walking, so I did.

She looked up at me again, snatched her little dog up from the road and hurried home.

The little devil smiled.

Authentic Blogging

Have you heard about the new e-book by the brilliant Maggie Marton? Those who attended Blog Paws knows that Maggie did a presentation on Authentic Blogging. I attended the session (I sat with Jan K) and it was really good.

Many of you know that two of Maggie’s pups are currently battling cancer, so Maggie thought she’d write a book about her presentation as a way to raise some extra funds to help with the veterinary expenses.  If you’re interested in purchasing it, Maggie has it for sale at her blog. Currently it’s priced at “pay a fair price”. If you’re interested, you can purchase it by clicking on this link: Authentic Blogging” (How to Find and Use YOUR Authentic Voice)

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