You make me laugh (or smile), the sweet, funny, loving things my dogs do on a daily basis that brings a smile to my face or a laugh to my lips.
Sampson, the way you use a toy to get Delilah all riled up, then just kick back with the toy while she does zoomies around the house…
You make me laugh.
Do your dogs rile each other up? Or do you have one who is more of a tease then the other? Sound off in the comments.
I know a lot of folks have already written about indoor games to play with your pups when the weather is bad. So if you want to skip this post, go right ahead. Except you’ll probably miss some pretty funny shit, well at least you might giggle. I’m not sure about shooting coffee out your nose funny, but you should definitely giggle.
Definitely.
We are currently in the midst of record cold. I’d venture to include snow in there, but I know we’ve had winters where we’ve had more accumulation than this year, the difference being the frequency with which we’ve been getting snow. Up until this week, it seemed we got at least 6 to 8 inches every few days. (Honestly I do know some women who would be happy to get 6 to 8 inches on a regular basis, but this is a post about snow and bored dogs so let’s move along.)
But it does remind me of the story where the female news anchor, disappointed with the non-existent snow promised by the weather man, asked on the air, “So Dave, where is the eight inches you promised me last night?”
Bah dump dum! I hear the newsroom dissolved in laughter and the female anchor turned fifty shades of red. 😉
Where was I before I distracted myself?
Oh yeah.
There have been a couple of sub-zero days when either the dogs or myself are unwilling to go outside to walk. I’m good with that, but I still want to give them a bit of mind stimulation at the very least. If not I could come home to a terrible mess because of a bored dog. (Not saying who.)
Oh you’re NOT saying WHO, but my picture goes up! Thanks Mama, thanks a lot.
I have a few boxes set aside to play scent work with when the weather is cold, so this week I broke out the boxes and we played some scent games in the house.
I use a small bowl to place the treat in, and then place the bowl inside the box. This keeps 1) someone (see above) from eating the box and 2) also helps to keep the scent from attaching to the box and giving off a false positive.
I have sneaky little shits for dogs, and I had to keep being inventive of box placement because they kept peeking! So the boxes moved from one place to another and another. Eventually we wound up in the hallway.
At first I was using regular treats, but when we moved into the hallway I added (cover your eyes Emma) rabbit!
Coincidentally, there are four doors in the hallway and I had four receptacles for scent work. I started out placing a box in each doorway and adding the treat to one of the boxes at the furthest end of the hall.
One of my dogs will sit patiently when you tell him to wait, the other one (not saying who) has to be held back.
Again? So this is where the saying, ” rolled under a bus” comes from? What the woof Mama?
So there we are in the hall using the treats and I think to myself, hmmm I wonder what would happen if I set a piece of this rabbit jerky on the floor in the first doorway and another treat in the box at the end of the hall?
Two different dogs, two different results.
So what do you think happened? Let me know in the comments, I’ll share the rest of this tomorrow.
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When I first started this blog it was to generate interest in a children’s book I wrote about Sampson.
I quickly discovered dogs like Sampson don’t give you a whole lot to write about.
Yes it’s true he does have his moments. Like the day he dragged me across the street to meet another dog.
Epic trainer fail right there.
And yes, I did have to grab him by his harness to keep him from dragging me over to the chatty neighbors, but for the most part, he is the sweetest, most loving, easiest dog ever. He wins people over wherever he goes.
Friday morning he had a vet appointment to check his glucose level. Last year when he had the blood work for his ACL surgery the surgeon let me know that Sampson’s blood sugar level was a bit on the low side, not enough to cause complications during surgery, but he requested I follow up with my vet at a later date.
Eleven months is definitely later. With the struggle Sampson had after the surgery, then Delilah’s tooth and elevated liver levels, I totally forgot about checking his levels.
So Friday morning found us waiting at the vet’s office. Sampson as usual, strolled in and announced himself. After being fawned over by the girls in the front, he settled down to wait until we were called.
Where is everyone?
Mom, can you check and make sure they know we’re here?
It’s the boots isn’t it? They think it’s weird for a dog to wear boots…tell them I don’t like them either.
Dr. Soutter checked Sampson’s ears to see if she could find a vein to get a drop of blood, but she couldn’t. She had to use a needle and take a tiny bit of blood out of his back leg. Delilah would need a vet tech to come in and hold her, but not Sampson. Dr. Soutter said, “He’s such a good boy, if you can just hold his head, we’ll be fine.”
And we were.
She asked if he had eaten, and he had. She said if the results were very low, or very high we would need to do another test, but with him fasting.
Luckily for us, the glucose showed Sampson’s levels at 82. Dr. Soutter said it was on the low side of normal, but as long as it was over 70, she had no issues.
No further testing required.
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