Heart Like a Dog

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

Follow-Up Friday

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For those new to the blog, my follow-up Friday provides me with an opportunity to update or revise a post from the previous week.

You know sometimes you post about something and you need an update but it doesn’t warrant a whole blog.  Or sometimes someone made a comment that really resonated with you.  Yup, Follow-Up Friday baby!

Why My Vet Shouldn’t Give Me Her Cell Phone Number – Author’s Note

This was a really fun post to write, even funnier because well…..I could actually see it happening.  Like I said, I like to have direct access to people who are important to me, but sometimes I can be a little obsessive.

I know you’re shocked.  It’s ok.  Sometimes it takes me by surprise too.

What’s Right For Your Dog? – Author’s Note

I firmly believe that all dogs, like all children and husbands, (Ok Big Al!) and all wives are different.  Dogs have unique and individual personalities just like people do.

Not everyone likes step-aerobics, right? So why should all dogs like agility?

Don’t feel guilty about how much exercise your dog is getting.  Just enjoy your dog and enjoy doing things with him/her.

WTF Wednesday – Author’s note

I signed the petition and shared it here and on my facebook page.  I wrote to every e-mail on that list as well as to the two Senators from Indiana.

The last time I checked they were 443 votes away from meeting their goal of 20,000 signatures.  I googled the event to try to find out if any action had been taken to stop the event.

I found more than one site that was dedicated to eradicating this horrific event.  Apparently opposition was very close to stopping this event last year.

Won’t you please do your part by sharing and signing?

As for Kingston, well I have no answers there.  You can talk until you are blue in the face to some people and you just can’t get through.  I feel sad for this dog because they are not doing him any favors and are really putting him at risk for injury or worse.

Thwarted Again – Update

I thank you all for hanging in here and helping me through this process.  When it comes to writing I can be somewhat creative, but coming up with witty names just isn’t my forte.  Notice the ingenuity regarding the name of this blog.

I have to confess, I really got a case of the giggles when I came up with “Doindoggiestyle.com”  and I still think it would be funny, but it’s just not a great name for googling, you know what I mean? 😉

I did have two FABULOUS ideas from two different commenters.

Al said, Jodi, how about barksandbytes.com

Then Peggy said,  I’ve seen it done like writerjodistone or jodistonewrites.

I like both of these ideas and they are both available.

Since I wanted to include my name in the title I am currently leaning towards jodistonewrites.com.

I’m still considering calling the woman who owns, ‘Be the Dog’ and perhaps collaborating with her on a tee-shirt.

Anyone interested in a tee-shirt?

Thwarted Again

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Well there’s good news and bad news.

Whenever anyone says to me, there’s good news and there’s bad news, what do you want first?  I always choose the bad news.

I figure, let’s get this over with.

Today I’ve got good news and bad news.  What do you want first?

Too late, I’m making the decision for you.  You’re getting the bad news.

I heard back from my attorney friend today.  His legal opinion is that adding “Just” to an already trademarked “Be The Dog” could be considered trademark infringement.

Poop, thwarted again.

The way I see it I have two options.  I can contact someone at the Be The Dog website and see about working on a collaboration or I can do my own thing.

I’m a do my own thing kind of girl….BUT….I really like Just Be The Dog. (Decisions, decisions.)

I’ve gotten some great advice from many of you.  Not the least being choosing a blog name should be well thought out.

I have put  a lot of thought into this and I feel strongly that the blog should somehow be associated with my name.

I sort of feel like an egomaniac saying that, but if I use my name, then I can write about whatever I want.   I’m not pinned down to writing strictly about my life with Sampson and Delilah.

And then I discovered there’s another Jodi Stone who’s also a writer.  No, no, it’s not the lady bug Jodi Stone, it’s a another one!  Yes by golly, there’s three of us….all writers.  This Jodi Stone has a facebook page and writes stories about princesses.

That all kind of sounds like bad news, but I wanted to give you that information so I could share some good news.

Here are two Jodi Stone names I’ve been considering:

thisisjodistone.com

youvereachedjodistone.com

I also thought I could stick with:

lifewithsampsonanddelilah.com

And then I kind of got a bit creative and thought of these two:

doinitdoggiestyle.com

whatsthebark.com

It’s a pretty major decision and I want to make sure it’s the right one for me.

When I started this blog I had no idea what I was doing, they said I needed a name and so I used mine.  I didn’t use my imagination because I wasn’t sure what I wanted to blog about.

As it turns out, using my own name with the Life with Sampson and Delilah tagline, worked out pretty well.  Because what I’ve come to realize is I’m selling myself as a writer, a speaker and I hope someday….a leader.

I’ve always said I’m technologically challenged, but if I’m reading all of your comments correctly, my blog will stay the same, it will just move over to the new website.  When you go to this blog site, it will just be hosted somewhere else.

So what do you think?  Did you like any of the names?  Should I have a name the website contest?

Oh and speaking of contests, have you seen the Something Wagging Match Game?  It’s pretty darn cool and yours truly is participating.  If you haven’t checked it out, well what are you doing now?  Head on over, Pamela’s giving away some awfully good swag. 🙂

 

WTF Wednesday

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There is nothing remotely funny in today’s WTF post.

I can’t even believe I’m actually typing this WTF post.  When I say I have a feeling of horror that is threatening to overwhelm me, I’m dead serious.  I want to cry.

There is an event that takes place at a campground in Indiana in September.  It involves live turtles and a cruel and brutal murdering.  I refuse to name the event because I don’t want my name or my blog associated with such a thing.  I am including the link to the petition here.  If you read the petition you will understand.

I beg you, please take a minute out of your day and sign this petition.  Please share it on your facebook page and any other social media you can think of.

All I can say is REALLY?  WTF KIND OF A-HOLE DOES THIS?  And brings their children there to watch it.  It’s supposed to be a family campground, WTF are you teaching your kids?

Bunch of f*cking hillbillies is right!

The petition has a number of e-mail and phone addresses to contact people who could stop this, I plan on writing to every one.  I would urge you to do the same.

I am however afraid of what my e-mail will say.

WTF In My Neck Of The Woods

Ok, I have to switch gears, if I don’t the blog will just be a post filled with cuss words.

I had a WTF moment this morning during our walk.  Do you remember the woman with the yellow lab (Norbert) and the Springer (Kingston?)  I wrote about them in the post about Delilah getting her leash caught in someone’s air conditioner.

Sampson, Delilah and I ran into them again this morning.   Apparently our walking buddy was heading in for a walk and they all went in together.

My friend said join them and so we all headed down to the field together.

And Kingston took off.

His mom pulled out a whistle and blew it and said, It usually works, he’ll come back eventually.

Yes he will.  Until the day he doesn’t.

I continued walking the dogs around the field because, well…..I’m there to walk, not stand in the field and wait for someone’s dog.  After a good three or four minutes the dog came running back out of the woods, at which point I was near a trail and said, I’m going to head in this way.

Off we went and we were joined a short time later by Kingston.

We headed up towards my friends house where we found them waiting AGAIN for Kingston.  I said, I would have text you and told you I had him if you weren’t here when we got here.

I didn’t stop my progress at all, I just kept the dogs moving as it was close to an hour and it was already quite warm.

Meanwhile, Kingston took off again.  I could hear them calling and whistling for him as we made our way back to the car.  It went on for a good five minutes.

I really wanted to say WTF is wrong with you?  Have you know care for your dog’s safety or well-being?

Besides the fact that your dog could ruin it for others by not being respectful, what if your dog got stuck, or hurt?  What if he fell off a rock or someone shot at him?  Do you think this stuff doesn’t happen?

News flash, it does.

All. The. Time.

Wake up and smell the coffee before you put your dog in such a predicament  that you can’t get him out or worse yet the authorities take him from you.

I can’t handle anymore WTF for today, the turtle murdering just did me in.

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