You make me smile (or laugh) the funny, sweet, loving things my dogs do that bring a smile to my face or a laugh to my lips.
Delilah, the way you stop and insist on inspecting something new you discover on our walks….
You make me smile.
Your turn, what do your babies do when they encounter something new?
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 Laugh – September 28, 2014
Cupcake said, “GAH! Balsamic Spider! How yummy! Once I ate a butterfly. It wanted to be eaten. It flew right into my mouth. ”
Oh Cupcake, is there anything you won’t eat? LOL
Emma had this to say “Bailie was really bad when we first got her. Being from a litter of 14, she fought for food since day one, so she would hoover up everything and anything she found. One morning right after we got her, it rained and those disgusting worms were all over the ground. She tried to eat those and I thought Mom might puke…yuck!”
Oh that would gross me out too. My dogs like to rub themselves on a dried worm every now and then. Of course, they get washed when they get home.
2 Brown Dawgs said, ” So did you know that a flock of turkeys is also called a “rafter of turkeys””
I did not know that! I did hear that a group of Baboons is called a Congress though….LOL Although some websites dispute this.
This was a huge rafter of turkeys, I’d say there had to be close to 20 of them.
Jessica said, “I think I’m a bigger coward than you are. My “go to” command for situations on walks is “Let’s Go!” Followed by turning around and going the opposite direction.”
I don’t think that is cowardly at all, in fact I think it’s very wise to know your pets limitations and to choose your battles wisely. In this case taking the wait and see approach worked for me. We were at a safe enough distance where I felt comfortable waiting.
My Dog Ate What? – WTF Wednesday
Molly the Wally asked, “LOL now that takes the biscuit. What next we ask?????”
I’ve found asking myself that question can have far reaching repercussions Molly. Usually as soon as I ask that, I’m given the next challenge!
I can’t even tell you what Retro Rover said, it’s too gross. LOL
Dawn said, “I’m wondering, though, why charcoal would be harmful. Isn’t that what they give dogs when they eat something poisonous because the charcoal absorbs it?”
DZ Dogs said, “But charcoal? No it’s not dangerous unless its been treated with tons of chemicals. ”
You guys are sharp! I looked this up when Sampson ate the packet and I knew one of them had the potential to be toxic, it was iron not charcoal as DZ Dogs pointed out. I have gone back and corrected the post.
Lauranne said, “And perhaps you need to make yourself big and scary to cheer off the cat bear fox thing (I can’t remember what it’s called!) I don’t know if it’ll work but the idea of you walking around stomping your feet and flapping your arms amuses the hell out of me!”
I’m glad I can amuse you. 😀 You do remember my melt down in the street, no?
Monika said, “Sam does that sometimes. We’ll be walking along and all of a sudden, the leash pulls tight and I know “ugh, he’s taking a dump.” Could be in the middle of the street, middle of a sidewalk (especially going up toward front doors–awk!), wherever the notion strikes, this doofas will squat. Some days I want to wear a bag over my head and then I realize how sweet he is and just chalk it up to yet another idiosyncrasy. ”
I’d like to think that if you’ve owned a dog you expect the unexpected and you remember that when you see other dog owners. That being said, I totally get what you are saying!
Pamela said, “I wonder if you should think of carrying citronella on the walks. It wouldn’t hurt the fisher and if you accidentally sprayed Sampson or Delilah, they wouldn’t like the smell but it wouldn’t hurt them either.”
That might not be a bad idea Pamela, I currently carry pepper spray but do worry about spraying myself or the dogs. I’ve also been told an air horn would be effective as well.
That’s it for me folks, I hope you have a wonderful weekend!!
My dog shits in the road too.
The other day on the way home I noticed cars slowing to a stop. When I looked ahead, I saw a woman bent over in the street and she appeared to be picking something up. Then I looked to the side of the road and noticed her two dogs, standing patiently waiting. As she stood up I saw the baggie in her hand. She looked sheepishly at the cars stopped on both sides of the road as she moved back to her dogs.
A huge smile broke out on my face.
It was a beautiful fall day and I had my window down, I had to resist the urge to scream out the window, “My dog shits in the middle of the road too” with a cheerful accompanying wave.
It’s NOT a CAT!!
In my effort to cut down on dog encounters I’ve taken to heading home at lunch time to walk Sampson and Delilah. Knock wood, so far this is working out fairly well.
Monday afternoon we ran into one of our neighbors who lives across the street about three houses down. She wanted to let me know the man next to her had a fisher ‘cat’ in his yard the other morning.
(Photo courtesy of Chris Clarke and used under his Creative Commons Policy)
This news scared the bejesus out of me. I mean, for one our first walk of the day starts around 6:00 am and it’s still dark out and staying darker every single day. I know I walk two big dogs, but these idiots would definitely want to investigate this critter.
He may look cute, like a little bear but this sucker is mean. He has sharp teeth and claws and yes he climbs trees! His official name is Fisher, but for some reason most folks call him a Fisher cat. Maybe it’s because he climbs trees. But the neighbor told me he comes for the cats. 🙁 Either way, I sure as hell don’t want to run into him, with or without dogs.
Tuesday morning I started carrying a full-size flashlight. (I have a little light on the visor of my ball cap, but it doesn’t give a lot of light.) First morning out I’m on high alert and as we pass a house, I think I see something in the yard. I shine the flashlight and two eyes stare back at me. I’m convinced it’s either a fisher or a GRIM. I shine the light again, the eyes are still there. But the light is not bright enough to show me what the eyes are attached to. So I skedaddled.
Fingers crossed a bright light shining in something’s eyes would be a good deterrent.
This new flashlight makes the dawn dance a little more complicated, for instance yesterday morning I bent down to pick up somebody’s pooping business and accidentally shone the flashlight into the upstairs of someone’s house, which set their dog to barking. I don’t know about you, but ’round my parts the only people who shine flashlights in windows are cops or crooks. I had to skedaddle again before they called the cops on me.
Jones Natural Chews
I ran out of the lamb lung puffs that Miss Flea sent me to help her celebrate her blogging anniversary this past July. If you haven’t tried them yet, I’d like to remind you, these things are like Doggie CRACK!
None of my local pet stores carry the lamb lung, so I went to the Jones website and ordered two bags. These are my “Look” and “Here” treats so I guard them very carefully.
The box came on Monday and I couldn’t get up the stairs without Delilah having her nose all up in the box. I put it down on the floor so I could snap some photos.
What the heck do they seal these boxes with?
Where can I get me some opposable thumbs?
Sorry for the blurred photos, as you can see, she was quite determined to get that crack!
Finally I took pity on her and opened it.
Finally some Jones Lamb Lung puffs!
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