Heart Like a Dog

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

Day Eighty Three – Through a Dog's Eyes

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I’m reading a book called, “Through a Dog’s Eyes” by Jennifer Arnold, who is the founder of Canine Assistants, an organization that trains dogs (humanely) for people with disabilities.  I was hoping to be able to report to you what a wonderful book it is and how much I learned about training my dogs; except I haven’t finished the book yet, so I can only attest that so far it is a good book.

What I did find is a link to a website where you can assess your dog’s personality!  I did the test for both Sampson and Delilah, but I’m not sharing that information just yet; because I want Chet to do the test with me as he and I may see the dog’s differently.  

The current chapter I am on is talking about stress factors for your dogs and I am trying to figure out if Delilah is stressed or bored.  Right now I am leaning towards bored because we are cooped up because of the weather. 🙁  Tonight when I got back from bringing Liam home, we found a chewed up measuring cup.  Oh Delilah!

Day Eighty Two – Dog People

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There are two kinds of people; people who like dogs and “dog people.”  I was always a person who liked dogs, that is until Sampson came along.

I’ve always liked dogs, in fact for almost my entire life I’ve almost always had at least one dog, with the exception of my first dog (Washy) they were dogs.  I never really got “dog people.”

My friend Kim had a yellow lab (Chloe) and I remember Kim telling me a story when Chloe was still a young dog about how Kim got dressed for work and once she was at work she looked down at her good shoes and there were little teeth marks from Chloe chewing on Kim’s shoes and I was horrified!  I couldn’t believe that the dog chewed her shoes and she wasn’t ticked off.  Clearly Kim is a dog person.

My sister is a dog person; once we went to visit her and she had an old comforter that she had thrown on the ground outside for the dogs to lay on while we sat and read.  She decided she wanted to take a nap, so she lay down on that comforter that the dogs had been on, that was covered with dog hair and God knows what else, and she took a nap. Again I was horrified!  I said to Chet, can you believe she laid down on that nasty old blanket?

But then Sampson came into my life and lo and behold, I became a “dog person.”  The dogs sleep on our bed, (Sampson’s sleep number is 35) most of the time I have either no covers, I’m on the edge of the bed or both.  But it doesn’t bother me, because this guy has changed my life.  Luckily for Delilah because if I had Delilah first, I don’t know what I would have done!

The reason I post this is because today while I was vacuuming, I picked up the duster attachment and I noticed little bite marks all over it from Delilah and I smiled.

If you look closely, you can see the little teeth marks.

Day Eighty One – When helping's a hinderance.

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The phone rang at 5:30 this morning; which is never a good thing but since today is Saturday…well you know it’s bad!  It was my daughter asking if I could come over and watch my grandson because the baby was coughing and having trouble breathing and they wanted to take her to the hospital.  As any mother/grandmother would I threw some clothes and a toothbrush in a bag,  shot off some instructions to Chet about the dogs and feeding, and was out the door (in my pajamas) in less than 5 minutes. 

Liam was up by the time I got there, so I decided to pack him up and bring him home since I have my normal Saturday chores that need to be attended to.  As we are driving home, I called Chet just to let him know I was on my way and he said he had let the dogs out and fed them breakfast and was on his way to work.  (Gotta love that overtime!)

My first sign

My first sign that something was amiss should have been when Delilah greeted me at the door with the packaging material from their raw food, which I know I placed in the trash last night, but did I catch that?  No.  Instead I came through the door, dropped my stuff off and went to tend the fire, that’s when Liam spoke up and said, “Mimi, it’s dirty.”  Then I looked.  There were coffee grounds all over the living room rug, I’m sure I don’t need to tell you but coffee is one of the items that humans can ingest; that dogs shouldn’t.  Coffee in large quantities can be deadly for your dog and I can’t imagine the grounds would be good either!

The delinquent with her prize.

and over here….is the top to the ice cream package torn apart.

The top of the ice cream box.

 

I got it cleaned up and oh look….over there it’s the bottom portion of the ice cream package.

Apparently Delilah likes the same ice cream I do!

A shredded dryer sheet over here, shredded plastic in the bedroom.  God only knows what else and where else. 

Thankfully the snow is melting so I only have to worry about her inside now.

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