Heart Like a Dog

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

If You Can’t Join Em!

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Tuesday, my friend Mindy came to stay with us for a bit.

A little back story. Mindy is the reason we have Sampson. Mindy and I worked together, and I had mentioned we were looking for a puppy. Mindy’s niece had a dog that was having puppies and the rest is history.

When Sampson was six weeks old, we went to visit him, and we took him through he woods to Mindy’s house where we hung out and played. Sampson is quite fond of Mindy, and was so glad to see her.

You know how when the grandchildren come over, he sleeps right where they are sleeping and won’t let them out of his sight?

Well, Mindy is staying in a room that has no carpet on the floor, so Sampson cannot go in there, for fear that he will slip and do more damage to his legs.

Since Sampson can’t sleep in the room with Mindy, he did the next best thing.

I actually had to coax him away and into the bedroom the first night. Thankfully, he’s settled down since then, and now only waits outside her door in the morning.

He is such a loyal guy and he loves with his whole heart.

Which of course, makes me smile.

You make me smile (or laugh,) the sweet, funny, loving things my dogs do that bring a smile to my face, or a laugh to my lips.

What did your pet do that made you laugh or smile this week?

The Bestest Dog

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A few months back, I found out about a Fairy/Gnome walk about two hours from my house. I told my seven-year-old granddaughter about it and we made plans to go.

The walk is a two-day event, and we had planned to go yesterday. Since it was a two hour drive, I wanted to get an early start, so my granddaughter slept over on Friday night.

Sampson turns into such a watch dog when either of the grandkids sleeps over. He insists on sleeping in the room with them, and since J was sleeping in my bed with me, he immediately climbed up on the bed, where he stayed all night long.

We’ve finally had a turn of spring like weather and it got quite warm in the bed, with three of us there. I woke up about 3:00 am, to Sampson panting, and even with all that, he spent the entire night on the bed, walking J up with a healthy tail wag, and some morning kisses.

Sometimes when both kids are here, it can get a little loud (and crazy), and it often times stresses Sampson out a little bit, but when just one child sleeps over, the way he protects them, just fills my heart.

And I can’t look at this picture, and not smile. He tucked himself right at her feet and stayed there all night long. When I told her that in the morning, and showed her the photo, she said, “He’s the bestest dog ever.”

You make me smile (or laugh,) the sweet, funny, loving things my dogs do, that brings a smile to my face, or a laugh to my lips.

What did your pet do that made you laugh or smile this week?

 

**The Fairy/Gnome Discovery walk is still happening today (April 29th), if you happen to be in the Salisbury, MA area, you can check it out at Pettingill Farm.  Link HERE.

Make Like a Tree

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Any of you a Winnie the Pooh fan? When my niece was little she absolutely adored Winnie the Pooh. She’d watch it every morning, and since I was her babysitter, naturally I watched it with her. One of my favorite Pooh stories, was the one where Pooh got stuck in Rabbit’s door after he ate too much honey.

I was reminded of that story one day last week.

We’ve been having some fairly mild weather this past week. I think the little animals are finally coming out of hibernation, at least if my dog’s noses are any indication.

Sampson in particular has been using his nose an awful lot.

I’ve noticed there are a couple of bushes/trees where he pays a lot of attention.

I don’t know what kind of tree/shrub this is, I know it’s some kind of evergreen, but I’m not sure what. It reminds me of a Bonsai tree, because of the way the limbs are bare on the bottom.

Anyway, Sampson was sniffing away at it.

But apparently he couldn’t get quite a good enough sniff to satisfy his nose. So he stepped further into the tree.

By this time, I was starting to get concerned, because it was a really tight squeeze, and with his bad back legs, I was worried he wouldn’t be able to get out of there.

I was thinking about Pooh and picturing myself as Christopher Robin, trying to pull him out of the tree, or having to call the fire department, but it took him only a couple of seconds and he figured it out, and slid his back legs over the lower branch.

Notice the branch towards the end of his back. It was quite a tight fit.

And just like that, he was out, none the worse for wear.

I breathed a sigh of relief because I wouldn’t have to call the fire department and tell them my DOG got stuck in a tree, and also because he’s just so darn cute.

You make me smile, or laugh. The sweet, funny, loving things my dogs do, that bring a smile to my face, or a laugh to my lips.

What did your pet do that made you smile this week?

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