Heart Like a Dog

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

Winter Wonderland

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Last week Sampson, Delilah and I were lucky enough to take a walk during a snowfall.  I love walking with my dogs in the woods when it’s snowing.  There is something so peaceful and beautiful about falling snow.

Winter Walk 1 The trees are blanketed in winter white and the outside world is muffled to our ears.

Winter Walk 2

I love watching the dogs enjoy the snow.  Because all of the good smells aren’t right on the surface, they have a tendency to bury their noses, which makes for some really cute photos.

Like this one.

Winter Walk 3 Sampson with a ‘soul patch.’

Or this one.

Winter Walk 4 Delilah with a frosted nose.

The only thing about freshly fallen snow I don’t like, is that it fades too fast.  Within a day the snow is all marked up with foot prints and dirt.

Snow is best enjoyed fresh.  Have you ever had the wonderful experience of walking in freshly fallen snow?  Those of you who get snow, do your dogs like it or not?  For those of you who don’t what types of walks do your dogs prefer?

You Make Me Smile – December 29, 2013

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Sampson and Delilah, the way you stop and look ahead on the trail, alert for dogs or people…

Sam and Dee you make me smile.

Lately I’ve been loving photos of people and dogs looking off in the distance.  When I can get these two actually looking at the same thing,  well it’s a bonus.

Do you struggle trying to get your dogs to look at the same thing at the same time?

Which Way Do We Go?

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Lately Sampson hasn’t been responding to me when we encounter people or other dogs on our walks.  This means his off-leash privileges have been revoked.  There are still some times and some days when I let him off leash a bit, but for the most part he’s on the long leash the same as Delilah.

I hear too many stories of dogs being lost or stolen and I’d rather not take the chance.  The kicker was the day he ran off, ignoring me completely and followed a couple of fellow hikers.

Sorry Sampson, that doesn’t fly with the Mama.

As those of you who walk more than one dog know, multiple dogs can prove to be challenging.  I’ve been searching for a leash coupler, but the places around me are out of stock on the 24″.  I have found it on-line, but the shipping options suck.  I think it’s ridiculous to pay $10 to ship a $5 leash, especially when I just shipped 95 calendars all for around $5 each.  One of my local stores is ordering a coupler for me but in the meantime, I walk two dogs and deal with the challenges.

What? You've never heard the tale of the two stubborn labs?

What? You’ve never heard the tale of the two stubborn labs?

 

At times (depending on my mood) this can be frustrating for me.  But not this day.  This day I chose to find the humor in it.  I took the photo and then I waited.  I waited to see who would move first.  And I thought, I can work with this.

Here’s where you come in.  Remember those Dogs of Blogville Calendars?

 

In order to get the cheapest price, I ordered a few extra.  So I thought, let’s do something fun and give one of those away.

Are you up for the challenge?

In the top photo, we have Sampson to the left side of the tree and Delilah to the right.  In the comments tell me who turned back to me first and which path we ended up taking.  Don’t worry, everyone who comments will go in the drawing for the calendar, you don’t need to have guessed correctly to win.

Random.org will choose the winner, which I’ll announce in next week’s Thanksgiving edition of This ‘N That Thursday. I’ll cut off entries Tuesday night at midnight EST.

Ready. Set. Which Way Do We Go?

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