Heart Like a Dog

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

You Make Me Laugh

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One of the big reasons I started this blog was for all the crazy, funny things my dogs do that bring a smile to my face or a laugh to my lips.

Sometimes it’s not easy to write a full blog post about it and sometimes I forget to share.

Some posts will be You Make Me Laugh and others will be You Make Me Smile, but they will all be the silly, sweet, funny things Sampson and Delilah do that help make crazy days just a little bit easier.

Feel free to share what your pets do that make you smile or laugh in the comments.

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Your turn.  What have your pets done to make you laugh this week?

Follow-Up Friday – May 17, 2013

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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.

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My co-hostess this week has co-hosted with me many times. Most of you follow the training exploits of Thunder, Storm and Freighter and if you don’t what are you waiting for?

I’ve come to depend on her for many things, not the least of which is to help me see the other side of certain issues.  I can count on her for just about anything and I’ve never even met her. 🙂

Please help me welcome my friend Linda, from the 2 Brown Dawgs blog.

Thanks for everything you’ve done for me with this blog hop Linda, I really appreciate it.

Black and White Sunday

This picture was taken shortly after Delilah joined our home, it is one of my favorite photos of the dogs, even though you can’t really see either dog’s face.

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Animal Couriers said, “What glorious ripples of light along Delilah’s back!”  It’s funny I had posted the photo when I noticed them myself, she almost looks like a Ridgeback. 🙂

Coralee said, “Four-legged Twister, without the mat!” I like that!

Cupcake said, “I kind of see one and a quarter dogs….? Playing rolypoly?”  You know Hubby and I could sit and watch our dogs wrestle for hours, they are really entertaining.

WordPress Family

Like me, many of you have forgotten about awards also, that made me feel a tad bit better.

Emma had a great suggestion, “When I get one I copy the link to the blog post that gave it to me onto a word doc and save it on my desktop.”  Good idea Emma, thanks for sharing that!

Jackie stated she puts the link into a draft post immediately.

Flea asked, “Was Sampson sitting in the middle of the street?”

No, sadly that cracked and car filled bit of asphalt is our driveway.

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JoAnn asked, “Sampson was a good boy and didn’t even get up to chase the goldens?”

Initially he was lying down, but you can tell when something peaks his interest.  He sat up and I said to Hubby who was about 15 feet behind him that there were dogs, so Hubby reminded him that he needed to stay.

He really is a good boy.  He loves to lie out in the driveway and watch the world go by.  Delilah can never be out front unless her leash is looped around the tree.  She would NEVER be content to just lie in the yard.

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The biggest question here was “Why does Hubby not want a Beagle?”

That would be because shortly after Hubby and I started going out we got a Beagle mix, her name was Roxanne.  Hubby always says she was a dumb dog.  But I say we were the dumb ones.  We did absolutely nothing with her, no training, no socialization, nothing.

Honestly I don’t know what we were thinking getting a puppy with three kids under the age of 8.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA The last photo of my sweet little Beagle, Roxanne.

Anyway, remember when I said I’d tell you what Hubby always said to the kids about want?  Here it is, “Want in one hand and shit in the other and see which one gets full faster.”

That’s my attitude, if I want a Beagle, I’ll get a Beagle, quite frankly I’m quite enamored with Beagles and while I know I’ll never have a do-over for Roxanne, I would love to give a sweet Beagle a loving home.

Wordless Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Here were some of my favorite comments:

Elyse and Riley asked, “I suck at captions, but is that slobber hanging from Delilah’s mouth?”  Yes, yes indeed it is.

Jackie Bouchard said, “I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today. Or a hotdog. Or a cookie. Or some packing peanuts. I’m not fussy….”

H and Flo said, “I said I wanted the cats-eye contacts.”

JoAnn’s made me laugh out loud, “sorry mom…i didn’t mean to poo on the carpet.”

Long Life Cats and Dogs said, “Sorry I haven’t been around for a while but great to come back to this gorgeous pic. PS – what’s hanging between the collar and the mouth?”  Um Miss Susan, that would be drool.  She’s practicing for the dog version of Big Daddy.  I hear they intend to call it Big Doggy.

Thank you all very much, your comments always amuse me.  Many of you were right on with the BlogPaws theme.  Here’s my caption.

WW 5-15-13- WM You did say they have food at BlogPaws, didn’t you? So explain to me again exactly why I can’t go?

This is the Follow-Up Friday Blog Hop hosted by 2 Brown Dawgs and Heart Like a Dog, please join us.



My Dog Likes Wood

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Friday on Talking Dogs Blog, Sue was updating us on puppy Rosie.  Sue said, “She is, by far, the easiest puppy we’ve ever had.  Zero destruction.  All joy.”

Which of course made me think back to my own little punkin, also a very easy puppy.

Sampson and Me Me and my Punkin, the first time I held him, he was three weeks old.

Which isn’t to say, he wasn’t a tiny bit destructive.

Dogs are as unique and individual as people.  Delilah enjoys agility while Sampson does not. I think this holds true in other things as well.

Delilah loves shredding paper.  Paper towels, napkins, tissues.  Sampson wouldn’t touch them if they were coated with cheese.

For chewing purposes we will leave Delilah out of that equation, as she will chew just about anything.

Our little Beagle, Roxanne loved to chew plastic, while Sampson has always favored wood.
(Siriusly, what did you think this post was about anyway?  It is a DOG blog, get your dirty little mind out of the gutter!)

Case in point, he chewed the feet of my wooden coat rack.  We tried to prevent his chewing, we gave him alternative toys, we sprayed bitter apple on it, eventually what worked was removing it from his area until he fully understood what he was allowed to chew and what he wasn’t.

Once the coat rack was removed and he still had the urge to chew wood, he had to look to other items in the kitchen to satisfy his needs.

One day I came home to discover he had chewed the footrest to the breakfast bar!  The breakfast bar that Hubby had carefully built and assembled, it was the center piece of our recently completed renovations in our very large and beautiful kitchen.

My first thought was Hubby is going to kill him.  I was worried.  I had been the one hellbent on getting a puppy and while I knew Hubby loved Sampson, I wasn’t sure that a huge fight wasn’t going to take place, with battle lines drawn, me defending Sampson and Hubby calling for stricter sanctions.

I took Sampson outside for potty and came in to await the storm about to break.

How was your day?  I cheerfully asked standing in front of the breakfast bar blocking the chewed footrest from his view.

Frivolities over it was time to face the music.

Um…I have something to show you, please don’t be mad.

WHAT?

When the words eventually finished stumbling out of my mouth, imagine my surprise when Hubby laughed and said, I didn’t like that footrest anyway!

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Who could ever stay mad at that little punkin face?

Have you ever had to go to bat for your pet?  Did it turn out the way you expected?

This is Monday Mischief.  Many thanks to our friends Alfie’s Blog, Snoopy’s Dog Blog and My Brown Newfies.

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