Heart Like a Dog

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

Hide and Seek…Day One Hundred, Sixty Nine

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Since I really want to keep this blog specifically about dogs; I will not be sharing my  Boston trip here, if you would like to read about my trip to Boston, you can find it on my personal blog.

Because I was planning on going to  Boston late afternoon, I took a half day and came home at noon to be sure I had time to get everything done before we left.

Naturally one of the items on my “to do” list included walking the dogs.  I had mentioned back a way about a game you can play with your dog that would also help with off leash walking.  I finally had the opportunity yesterday to implement my plan….Bwa hah hah! (That was an evil laugh for those not “in the know” or ITK for text speak.)

I had planned a good 45 minute walk because I wanted the dogs to be really good for Chet while I was gone.  The dogs ran far enough ahead so they could not see me and I saw my opportunity.  I hid behind a tree.  I heard them running back towards me, but I remained very still and then carefully peeked out from behind the tree.

Sampson saw me first, but Delilah did not.  She stood in the fork of the path and I saw her looking right and left, trying to figure out where I had gone to.  I could tell she was concerned but she wasn’t panicking and before she went into full-blown panic mode, I stepped out from behind the tree and alerted her to my presence.

We continued on with our walk, but it must be noted that Delilah didn’t go further than about 20 feet away for the remainder of the walk.

Mission accomplished!

Dog Days….Day One Hundred, Sixty Seven

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There is nothing I like better than walking into an establishment and being greeted by a dog.  Of course I expect this at some of my local pet stores, and  at the groomers/daycare facility, but not when I walked into the spice store this afternoon.  The dog in question was sleeping on the floor in front of the cash register; he lifted his head and looked up when I entered, then lay back down.  Apparently, I wasn’t interesting enough to warrant a second glance!

I must confess, I long for a job where my dogs can be with me all the time.  Luckily enough I have been able to bring my dogs to work a couple of times, this requires a lot of work on my part, because Delilah will go through all the waste baskets looking for any food scraps.  Once she found a long abandoned ant trap and tried to chew it; thankfully I was right there to take it away from her!  I realize if they were at work with me all the time it would become routine and not quite as much work for me.

The upside to bringing the dogs to work is there is a walking trail that runs parallel to the parking lot with easy access from the lot to the trail, so I can easily take the dogs out for a bit of exercise.  Which would free me up a lot more time in the evenings that I could use for blogging!

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