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It’s A Pissing Contest – Barks and Bytes

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Since Sampson did a partial tear on his cruciate he isn’t aloud to be outside unsupervised. This development has given me the opportunity to observe a couple of things about my dogs.

The first being when walking the dog, I have a better chance of getting past another dog or a distraction with only one dog vs attempting it with two.

The second has to due with their competition with each other. I always KNEW they were in competition, all you have to do is ask my arms and they will tell you, it’s a competition to determine who will lead the walk.

What I didn’t know was just exactly HOW competitive they really were.

That is until yesterday.

Yesterday it was brought to my attention that my dogs are in a pissing contest.

Literally.

My dogs are in a pissing contest.

It started like this. Tuesday night I took the dogs out for the last potty of the night. Sampson for some unknown reason decided to pee in the snow that was left on the deck. (You remember, that white shit we got from Mother Nature’s temper tantrum Sunday into Monday.)

Done, over, we went to bed.

Yesterday morning Delilah wanted to go outside and as I watched her, she sniffed the snow where Sampson had peed and then took a few steps past it and she peed.

When Sampson went out again, he took a few steps past Delilah’s pee spot and then he peed.

Then she peed past his pee and then he peed past her pee.

The end is nigh.

The left arrow is her 2nd pee and the right arrow is his third.  And that’s the end of the deck. SMH

Last time I looked there were five pee spots on the deck.

Yup, it’s a pissing contest at my house.

Do you have dogs that compete with each other? How do you deal with it?

Pee past this biatch.

Pee past this biatch.

The Last Barks and Bytes

Thursday, January 23, 2014 was the first day of the Barks and Bytes Blog hop, hosted by 2 Brown Dawgs and yours truly.  It’s been a great two (plus) years, but all good things must come to an end and after much deliberation, Linda and I have decided it’s time to end to the hop.

I’ve met some truly wonderful people through the blog hop and gotten to read some amazing blogs that I might not have found on my own. For that I’m very grateful.

I’d like to thank you all for joining and supporting us on the blog hop and I’d like to say a special thanks to Linda for being such a great co-hostess. I certainly couldn’t have done it without her.

 

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Swamped – Barks and Bytes

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My dogs tend to be creatures of habit. When they head to the woods, they take the same tired trails. So I was surprised yesterday when instead of heading straight for the field, Delilah turned right and headed up the hill.

I admit to grumbling along behind her, because we had to walk UP the hill to the woods and then she just kept on going, so the first ten minutes or so of our walk was straight up hill.  But I knew once we hit the peak, the rest of the walk would be all down hill.

She surprised me again once we reached the top of that hill. Instead of taking the same trail she takes every day, she took me along an unmarked trail that’s one of my favorites.

The reason I love it so?

I call it, "The Swamp".

I call it, “The Swamp”.

Having never actually seen a swamp, I’m not sure if it looks like this or not. I’m pretty sure a swamp would have water, in fact, I’m sure a swamp would have water.

Maybe it’s just something about the trees with the way they twist that makes me think of a swamp.

Or maybe it’s just my writer’s imagination, thinking up a spooky plot line that would work in a book.

Whatever the reason, it was worth the ten minute walk up the hill.

Do you get ideas for blog posts or books when you walk? Where do you find your inspiration?

P.S. AND there was a bunch more to this post, but my computer glitched and I took that as a sign that I should be short and sweet today. 🙂

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WHY – Barks and Bytes

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I apologize in advance to my savvy vet tech readers. And if by some crazy chance a veterinarian actually reads this and you yourself are savvy, I apologize to you as well. As a dog owner and lover, I think there are some things I shouldn’t have to explain when I’m with my dogs at the vet.

Specifically:

Why all dogs should be on leash in common areas.

One would think this was a no-brainer, no? It’s actually happened to me.

Twice.

The first time it happened was when I took Sampson in for his surgical consult. While my poor lame dog was stressed out and waiting to be seen, two GSD’s and a Pug came charging up to him after having an exam room door opened. There was a lot of loud dog noises, which ended when I screamed, “HEY!” at the top of my lungs.

Afterwards the receptionist told me, “We’ve told him they have to be on leash, but he doesn’t listen.” I told her if it had it been Delilah it may not have turned out so well.

The second time was recently at my own vet when I went in to pick up Sampson from one of his tests.

A cute little off-leash dog came running up to me while I was waiting. The woman called the dog over, leashed her up and was then called into the exam room. I asked the ladies at the front desk about it and they kind of just shrugged.

Do people in the animal industry NOT understand that not all dogs or owners are comfortable meeting other dogs?

Delilah’s titchy. Sometimes she’s fine, other times she’s not. I prefer just to avoid the situation all together. It just makes it easier.

Sampson loves other dogs, but he gets so excited to meet them, that he bounces about and pulls me. It’s just not a pretty, nor pleasant experience. Never mind the fact that if two dogs don’t like each other, and either a dog or human gets hurt, there is a liability issue.

Look...no props, no background. You call that photography?

Hey, you don’t like every person YOU meet, why should I like EVERY DOG I meet?

Last week when I took Sampson in for Physical Therapy, there was a woman standing in the doorway of an exam room with her dog in her arms, and I had to walk Sampson past her. I said, “Can you go in the room?”

I think the Physical Therapist was taken aback because she smiled at me and said, “We have to share.”

I don’t mind sharing, but I know my dog and I know what I can and can’t do with him. Not to mention, the other dog was much higher up than my dog, and they were already encroaching into a hallway which was narrow to begin with and my dog is injured.

I’m certainly not comfortable in that situation and I’m not sure how comfortable my dog is, so to me it’s best to eliminate as many risk factors as I can.

Hey, at least I asked the woman nicely, I mean, I didn’t go all backwoods hood rat on her ass. 🙂

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