Heart Like a Dog

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

Happy Birthday America

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Happy Birthday America!

Happy Birthday America!

 

Happy Birthday to the America that I love and a special shout out to all the people who work to protect us and our freedoms.

Thank you.

Special thanks to our friends at 2 Brown Dawgs for This ‘N That Thursday, some days it’s a little of this with a pinch of that thrown in.

Winner, winner chicken dinner

We were the lucky recipients of not one, but two contests this past week!  On Monday the Kong treats we won from Life With Desmond came.

There were two little helpers anxiously awaiting the opening of the package.

There were two little helpers anxiously awaiting the opening of the package.

 

These treats came at the perfect time because we were getting a bit low. 🙂  Thanks Lauren, Desmond and Kong, the treats are a big hit!

We’re also super excited because we won a Frosty Paws backpack package from our friends at 2 Brown Dawgs blog and it came yesterday!

Insulated backpack, water bottle, portable water dish, freezable bowl and poop bags!

Insulated backpack, water bottle, portable water dish, freezable bowl a coupon for a free box of Frosty Paws and poop bags!

 

Hubby and I were both impressed at the quality of this backpack, besides the large insulated main pouch, there are a couple of other pockets with zippers to stash non-food related items, such as bug repellent. It also comes at the perfect time as we will be heading for an adventurous vacation later on this month.

But you guys, wanna see my favorite piece in this pack?  I bet some of you with sharp eyes have already found it.

I heart Storm.

I heart Storm.

 

Follow-Up Friday

For those of you joining tomorrow’s hop, my co-hostess this week is the one and only, Jodi Chick from Kol’s Notes!  Check back tomorrow for some answers to your comments and a recap.

For those in the states, have a safe and happy 4th of July!

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog

Thanks again to our friends at 2 Brown Dawgs blog.

This ‘N That Thursday – June 27, 2013

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Today we join our friends at the 2 Brown Dawgs blog for This ‘N That Thursday.  You know, This ‘N That Thursday, A little of this and a little of that and everything in between…

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog

 

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog

Many thanks to our friends at the 2 Brown Dawgs Blog.

Super Sweet Blogging Award

Last week our friends at All Things Collie presented us with the Super Sweet Blogging award.  Sampson and Delilah did a post about this very award last December, so I thought I’d say thank you very much to All Things Collie and let you read their answers here.

Weather

With the warmer weather comes the added chance of thunderstorms.  We’ve had our fair share of them of late and they always seem to be right around the time we’re taking our walk.

The flash always makes it seem darker.

The flash always makes it seem darker.

 

I love walking and truth be told I actually enjoy walking in a light to moderate rain. While it can be slightly uncomfortable walking in wet clothes, rain does help keep the bugs away.  But when the thunder rolls in like waves upon the shore, I draw the line.

And the thunder rolls.

And the thunder rolls.

 

I usually let the dogs choose our path and simply follow them wherever they go.  I have been encouraging them to use one particular path on our way out of the park.  When we hit this path I say, “Let’s go home.”

When we reach the intersection we can turn right and head back towards the field or turn left and head towards our car.  I usually try and plan our walks so we hit this path right around the 25 minute mark and it takes us about five minutes to walk it, so in my mind it’s a win-win.

Last night Delilah wanted to hit our ‘home’ path early so I thought, no biggie, we’ll turn right into the field instead of left.  Silly me.  I’m not sure it was the heat, or the fact that we’ve cut our walks short a couple of times but we hit the end of that trail and the dogs turned towards the car.

Rut row.

Don’t think I slacked off because we just finished K-9 Kamp, we didn’t get the “Walking Warriors” award because we’re wimps.  No siree Bob.  I urged them the other way and we finished our half hour walk.

Thank you to Kol's Notes and Peggy's Pet Place for hosting K-9 Kamp.

Thank you to Kol’s Notes and Peggy’s Pet Place for hosting K-9 Kamp.

Bones

My dogs love their bones.  I currently have the Jones Natural Chews center bones and I fill them every day and freeze them, they are the nightly treat in our house.

These bones are well loved.  Don’t believe me?  Have a look.

Broken Bone Care to hazard a guess as to who loved this bone to pieces?

If you guessed Delilah, you’d be wrong.  Oh Delilah loves these bones, there’s no doubt about it, but she is not the extreme chewer with them like Sampson is.

2 Bones The bone on the left is Delilah’s.

For whatever reason, Sampson chews these bones a lot harder than Delilah.  Of course, I threw this one out which means I need to replace it. 🙂

Follow-Up Friday

Join us tomorrow for Follow-Up Friday, the blog hop that let’s you wrap up your week and leads you right into the weekend.  My co-hostess for this week is JoAnn Stancer from Sand Spring Chesapeakes.

Many thanks to our friends at 2 Brown Dawgs for the This ‘N That Thursday blog hop.  See you tomorrow.

This ‘N That Thursday – June 20, 2013

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Today we join our friends at the 2 Brown Dawgs blog for This ‘N That Thursday.  You know, This ‘N That Thursday, A little of this and a little of that and everything in between…

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog

Courtesy of 2 Brown Dawgs Blog

Many thanks to our friends at the 2 Brown Dawgs Blog.

Lyme Disease

Yesterday I wrote about the day my grandchildren spent with me.  It was a warm day and my granddaughter had her shirt off.  As I sat next to her during dinner, I noticed a tiny black mark surrounded by lightly irritated skin on her side.

I said to Hubby, “I think she has a tick.”

Of course he went and got our tick key and the rubbing alcohol and removed it.  He said, “I don’t think it’s a tick, it came off too easy.”

I put some antibiotic cream on the spot and told my daughter to keep an eye on it.  Last Thursday my granddaughter went to the Dr. because the spot had grown to the size of a quarter.  The Dr. said it was a spider bite.

Bullshit I thought, spiders don’t attach themselves to your skin.  (Unless they’re vampire spiders and then I have no idea what they do.)

Saturday the mark had taken on the distinction of what is commonly known as a target. The Dr. diagnosed Lyme Disease and my granddaughter is currently on a three week course of antibiotics.

Site of tick bite.

Site of tick bite.

 

The Dr. said my granddaughter should be fine.  But it will always be something in the back of our minds when she isn’t feeling well.

According to the CDC, a tick has to be attached for 36 to 48 hours in order to transmit the Lyme Disease.  This tick was tiny, about the size of the head of a pin.

Just a warning, make sure you check yourself, your kids, and pets.

We’re very lucky we caught this early.

Sampson has a lump.   It’s under his right arm.  About two years ago I found a lump on his side, we went to the vet and had it aspirated, it turned out to be a fatty deposit, which is fairly common in Labradors.

I called to schedule an appointment.  My vet recently had elbow surgery and isn’t seeing dogs over 40 pounds until the first week in July.  The other two vets in the practice that I would normally see are on vacation next week, so I decided to wait until the first week in July.  Of course I’ll keep my eye on it and if it begins to grow I will bring him in and see whoever is there.

I’m praying (and I’d appreciate any prayers you want to throw our way too) that it is just another fatty deposit.  I will keep you posted.

Mr. Linky

A couple weeks ago I wrote about the problem I had with the Linky Tool.  What happened was someone was joining the blog hop and beat me and the co-host at getting their link hooked up.  I went to my Linky Tool dashboard and saw, manage links in hop, so I clicked on it and moved the link to third position.  The problem was that everyone who joined the hop, pushed this persons post further and further down the list, so they were always last.

I finally wrote to Mr. Linky again and asked about managing the links and he told me I couldn’t do it.

Um…..sorry Mr. Linky but clearly I did it.  You may want to look at your product again.

As of right now I’m almost positive I won’t be renewing my subscription with Mr. Linky.

Follow-up Friday

Follow-up Friday is being co-hosted this week by Kari from Hound Girl.  She will have the link up and on her blog tomorrow morning.  We will be participating in K-9 Kamp so our Follow-Up Friday post will go up on Saturday again.

If anyone is interested in co-hosting, it’s not that hard and I’d love to share the linky love. 🙂

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