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Wordless Wednesday - A Dog’s Day

Wordless Wednesday

Dog Capture

I’m feeling better once again about our dog, she is after all, really quite cute and difficult to stay mad at. I have decided that I need to be prepared though for days like yesterday when she decides to put on her bad dog act and run off.

The odd thing yesterday was that no matter what I tried to entice her with, funny sticks, tennis balls, hugs and kisses, she just wouldn’t come. I finally walked home, leaving her in the neighbor’s yard to get better, tastier enticements.

After getting home, I stuck a piece of bacon in my jacket pocket and grabbed her leash. I headed back to the neighbors and found Plinko eating something fuzzy from between a couple of bushes. I was just sticking my hand in my pocket to get the bacon when the dog turned to look at me. She saw the leash and got all excited, I guess she thought we were going for a walk. She came right over to me, let me hook the leash onto her collar and we headed home, bacon still in my pocket!

I’m thinking that from now on I need to wear BDU Pants or something similar. You know the ones, they have all those extra pockets. I could keep dog treats and a spare leash on me at all times. It would cut down on the amount of time it takes me to recapture my dog!

Thankfully, Plinko doesn’t do this on a regular basis. It sure is annoying though when she does.

Bad Dog

I am posting this picture to remind myself that this dog is cute, smart and normally well behaved. Notice, I said “normally”.

Today she decided to be bad. I had a DHL guy at the front door and I was signing for the package. The dog decided to take off between our legs and run, straight out the front to the street. She then turned and ran into our neighbors back yard. This is probably the only good decision she made during this escapade as I closed the gate behind her so she couldn’t get back out to the street.

After about 30 minutes of trying to get her to come to me, I went home and got her leash. As soon as she saw the leash, she came right to me. I guess she thought we were going for a walk. Ummm, NO! I did walk her back home and told her what a bad dog she was. She has been laying behind me ever since giving me the “I’m a good girl” look. I’m not falling for it.

Family Dogs

Brody & ElsieOriginally uploaded by sewingmom1

We are such animal lovers in our family. Every family member’s house has at least one pet, a dog, sometimes two, and sometimes there are cats and birds mixed in for good measure. It occurred to me that I am always showing pictures of my dog Plinko and I decided today that I would show other animals that are in my extended family. Today, I have a picture of Elsie and Brody, both of whom are members of my sister Karen's family.

Edited to add:  The quilt, by the way, was hand crafted by my sister Karen for her daughter.  I do believe the dogs think it belongs to them!

Snowday

This dog really likes snow! This video was so funny that I wanted to share. You can mute the music if you choose, it’s Christmas music after all, but the dog in the video is having so much fun.

Talk With Your Dog

This is technology at its finest!

A Hungarian scientist has developed a computer software that, when used with a certain breed of Hungarian dog, interprets the dogs barks.  The software is designed to analyze certain distinct barks that indicate the emotional state of the Hungarian Mudi, a herding breed.

Improvements to the software continue to be worked on.  As of right now, the software is only 3% more accurate than humans at determining the meaning behind a dogs barks in 6 particular situations: when the dog is alone, when the dog sees a ball, when the dog fights or plays, when the dogs meets a stranger and when the dog goes for a walk.

While I find this fascinating, I think I’ll wait for a much later version of this software before making my purchase!

Top Dogs

The American Kennel Club has issued it’s annual list of the top 10 most popular breeds in the United States.  The labrador retriever remains in first place, a position it has held for 17 years!  And, for the firt time in 72 years, the bulldog made its way onto the list, inching out the miniature schnauzer for 10th place. 

Without further ado, here are the top 10.

1. Labrador Retriever
2. Yorkshire Terrier
3. German Shephard
4. Golden Retriever
5. Beagle
6. Boxer
7. Dachshund
8. Poodle
9. Shih Tzu
10. Bulldog

 Too bad the puggle isn’t considered a pure bred (yet) by the AKC.  They are certainly growing in popularity!

Puppy’s First Christmas

This will be an interesting Christmas.  I feel like we have a toddler in the house again!  We’re being very careful with our Christmas tree and how we’re decorating it, not placing any breakable ornaments near the bottom where the dog can get ahold of them.  She does think she’s a goat sometimes, so she eats just about anything.  We have caught her a couple of times all ready trying to chew on light bulbs that are on the tree.  She’s very smart though so I think if we work with her and keep an eye on her she will learn quickly that she’s not allowed to play with anything on the tree.   At least, that’s what I’m hoping will happen!

puggle-escape

At first, my 5 month old puppy puggle named Plinko (as most of you know from my other site) loved to go through the fence! After a while, she got better and has not gone through for 3 months. Now, at 5 months she has decided that ‘I haven’t gone through the fence in a while so I am now.’ Yesterday, my daughter saw her go through the fence by our gate and had to go pick her up and haul her back in. Today, my daughter and I went grocery shopping and when we came home, all gates were closed, the garage was closed, and my husband was not outside. So, why was Plinko in the driveway? Now, we were watching her with a pretty close eye. Even so, today again a lady stopped by and gave Plinko back to us because she spotted her in the culdisac. Now, we are like hawks watching her every move outside. That is, when she needs to go to the bathroom because that’s now her only allowed time outside. I just wonder why all the sudden she decided to go under the fence!