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I’m Not Mad at You, I’m Mad at Me.

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I lost her, I said as soon as Hubby answered the phone.

Where are you? He asked.

We talked and came up with a strategy, he would come to the park from the other direction, hoping she would hear his jeep and go to him.

She’s been on leash for the last two weeks, and returning promptly with every recall.  The beauty of the spring day tugged at my heart and I wanted her to have a few minutes of running.

I made sure we were far away from the field where she had run off the last time and I unclipped her leash.

I called her, she returned.  I repeated the process, so did she.

And then she took off.

I called with no results, then Sampson and I turned and ran the other way with me shouting Run Sampson run.

Nothing.

We started following her and then we got to a point where she could have gone down the cliff, back towards the neighborhood or on.

That’s when I made the call to Hubby.

We were in the woods behind some houses and I thought, I’m going to turn around, maybe she headed towards the houses.  If not, I was determined to knock on doors and spread the word.

Sampson was leading the way when he abruptly stopped and stood still listening.

Suddenly there she was running towards us.  I clipped the leash on.

Never again.  It was the worst eight minutes of my life.

A short time later she sat at the edge of the kitchen waiting as Hubby and I did the dishes, every now and again her eyes closing.

I’m not mad at you, I’m mad at me, I said to Delilah looking her square in the eyes.

Sleeping Delilah She wouldn’t let me get a photo, I had to use one from the files.

My year of HEART has officially ended where Delilah is concerned.  She’s proven time and again that she can’t be trusted.

Co-Hosted Follow-Up Friday – April 12, 2012

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Welcome to Co-Hosted Follow-Up Friday, the blog hop that let’s you wrap up your week and leads you right into the weekend.

My co-hostess this week apparently likes punishment.  Not only is her female, Storm expecting puppies in less than two weeks, she also recently started the This ‘N That Thursday blog hop and today she’s back to help me out.

Please give a warm Heart Like a Dog welcome to our friends at the 2 Brown Dawgs blog.  (Sorry, I’ve always wanted to type that.)

The thing I love about Follow-up Friday is the flexibility, so since I’m struggling to respond to comments, I’m going to try answering some of them here, along with my follow-up.

Savvy?

 Emergency Recalls…WHAT?

It always makes me feel better to find that other people are doing similar things that I am (talking to your dogs like they KNOW what you’re saying.)

Thanks to Tales and Tails who said “Jen over at Never Say Never Greyhounds did a great post a while back about teaching recalls, and she does have an emergency, can never be ignored recall. She teaches it with grilled steak, if I remember right, and by golly, I’d recall for her every time, too! I think it’s definitely worth your time and effort to teach it and work on it.”

I plan on bookmarking this and checking it out when I have a few minutes.

I also started watching Patricia McConnell’s “Lassie Come!” video, which is also on my list to finish.

 Acd6pack asked, “Do you dehydrate the turkey hearts yourself?”

No, I’m lazy when it comes to making treats for the dogs, although Hubby and I have been talking about purchasing a dehydrator and once I have one, I intend on working on dehydrating certain things and hearts will probably be one of them.

My question for you is, how do you recall a deaf dog that is off-leash?

Happy Easter

Al asked, “How many takes?”

Actually I took 11 photos and only one of them was a real ‘blooper’ which I ended up using anyway.

AnimalCouriers asked, “are we seeing a little sun there?”

Yes, yes you were.  We’ve actually had a couple of spring like days.  It gives hope to the soul.

Delilah the Retriever and Oz the Terrier

Jan said, “Not many rhyme with Poodle or Chihuahua though.”

Oh yeah? ;-0

The lady named Jan had chihuahuas
They made her laugh like he he and hah, hah, hah’s
She also had poodles
who liked to eat noodles
then needed their thirst quenched with some wa wa’s.

Wordless Wednesday

Last week Caren said, “Liked your quote but was hoping you would post some of the quotes that you received…darn!  Next Time.”

So here is mine:

100_1045_2 WTF?  I didn’t know he was so delicate!

As always I loved all your comments.  Some of my favorites were:

Caren – “I can’t believe I ate the WHOLE thing!”

JoAnn – “Look mom no body!”

Houndstooth – “The thing just EXPLODED! I’m as shocked as you are!”

Georgia Little Pea – WHAT are my legs doing there?!

This ‘N That Thursday

Julie said, “that sweet face at the beginning of the video melts my heart.”

It melts mine too my friend. 🙂

Emma said, “Mom understands that poor woman all too well. She is always telling me about how my sister Katie would take off on her and not let herself get caught. One time she even ran out into a kids soccer game and was after the ball, they had to stop the whole game and mom still couldn’t catch Katie…now she is older and a bit more sensible but mom knows that it just happens and there is nothing you can do. Katie just wanted to play as well, so there was no physical harm ever done.”

I imagine that made mom very anxious Emma, I’m glad you’re such a good girl and stay close to your mom.

That’s a wrap for this edition of Follow-Up Friday, hosted by 2 Brown Dawgs and Heart Like a Dog.  Please check out our fellow hoppers.  This is the co-hosted Follow-Up Friday Blog Hop



This ‘N That Thursday – April 4, 2013

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Today we’re joining our friends at 2 Brown Dawgs for This ‘N That Thursday.

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog Many thanks to 2 Brown Dawgs.

As 2 Brown Dawgs says, “This ‘N That Thursday is for those times when you want to post about unrelated topics or each topic isn’t quite long enough to make up a whole post.  It can be anything you want, so feel free to grab the button and join us!”

LaCrosse

When I started to see the signs to join LaCrosse, I knew the time was coming when we’d once again be sharing our field.  When at all possible I go home at lunch and walk the dogs, just to avoid the hassle.  But there are some days when I just can’t.

Monday was such a day so Hubby said he’d go with me.  Much easier with one dog per handler.

Normally I avoid the field during LaCrosse like it was the plague, but since Hubby was with me, we took a hard trail which would take us through the field on our way out of the park.

Just as we approached the field I saw a dark flash fly across the rocks, I thought to myself is that a dog?

Sure enough about a minute later a black dog that looked like a Labradoodle came tearing down the trail, followed by her owner.

As soon as I saw the dog charging at us, I dropped Delilah’s leash.  Sophie tore past Delilah and me and charged at Hubby and Sampson.

“I’m so sorry” panted her owner, trying desperately to grab her dog, “she was just running with the boys.”  The good news is she was friendly and just full of energy wanting to burn it off, the bad news was that she kept avoiding her owner’s grasp.

She was running back and forth between us, then would zip out and run around us in a circle, always coming back to Delilah.

Guess what happened?

Delilah and Sophie started playing!

Woot woot!!

Perseverance pays off….Just be the dog.

Nosework

Our nosework classes have become progressively harder.  Tuesday night for our last run, Ariane made it super hard.  It took Delilah some time but she’s methodical and eventually she found her treat.

This is This ‘N That Thursday Blog hop hosted by our friends at 2 Brown Dawgs blog, go ahead.  Hop along.

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