Heart Like a Dog

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

Do You See What I See?

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On a typical quiet day at Stone Manor, Sampson and Delilah are sacked out on the couch.  Unless a dog walks up or down the street.

Sampson is usually the first one to discover whatever it is that is moving on his street.  He will look out the window, then run either to the sliding door in the den or to the back door to go outside.  If he goes outside he will run to one of the gates and stand there barking greeting his new friend.

Yesterday there was such a ruckus in the house, with the two fools barking their heads off, I thought for sure a pack of wild dogs were running down the street.  Naturally we all got up to investigate.

Do you see what I see?

The neighbor across the street apparently got a remote control car.  I’m not exactly what they thought it was, but it held their interest for a couple of minutes. 🙂

Are your dogs nosy like mine?  Does a dog walking on your street have the same effect on your dog?  And can one of you tell me if I used effect correctly, or should it have been affect?  🙂

 

Yahoo!

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I’ve written many times that Delilah has a 30 foot leash for our hikes in the woods.    Normally the dogs are pretty close to me, but if they make a turn and I can’t see them or they get out of my range of vision, I sort of panic.  That is why I work on her recall every single time we are out there.

I’ve noticed that different people have different words for calling their dogs.  Some people use front while others simply say, come.  Most of the time when we are in the training center I say here and put my hand on my chest.

When we are off leash walking, I have a variety of words/phrases that I use.  Sometimes I say, this way, other times I say, did you forget where the mama is? or where are you going, silly?  Sometimes I simply use a traditional here or come.

Then there are times like today when I just say,

What words do you use to recall your dog?  Do you find that one works better than another?

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! :-)

Let Me Rip It, Let Me Tear It – Author’s Note

I wasn’t in the least angry with Delilah for pulling out the fluff, we allow them to do that with their toys and I don’t expect her to know that she can’t unfluff the bed.

I did not give the bed a proper funeral, instead I turned it over so she couldn’t pull anymore out.  Besides the hole in the bed it is perfectly useful.  I decided I will either use the stuffing to fluff up other beds, or I will wash the shell, patch the hole and re-stuff.   No sense in wasting perfectly good bedding.

Racing The Sun – Author’s Note

Spring slapped me in the face on Wednesday and winter slapped us in the ass this morning.  We woke up to a small amount of what I like to call ‘sugaring’ snow (soft and wet.)  Just enough to make the trip to daycare and work a bit slippery, but it is expected to be back in the 50’s and 60’s this weekend.

Right now it’s pouring out. 🙁

Book update: My book has 13,123 words.

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