{"id":758,"date":"2014-04-24T05:17:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T09:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yourdesignerdogblog.com\/?p=758"},"modified":"2014-05-02T04:28:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T08:28:51","slug":"u-umbrella-atozchallenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yourdesignerdogblog.com\/2014\/04\/24\/u-umbrella-atozchallenge\/","title":{"rendered":"U is for Umbrella &#8211; #atozchallenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\nThanks for liking us! Sadie and I really appreciate the love!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourdesignerdogblog.com\/?attachment_id=916\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-916\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-916\" style=\"width: 379px; height: 488px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yourdesignerdogblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sadieumbrella2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"dogs, designer dogs, yorkipoo, yorkie poo, pets, blog, photography, umbrella\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yourdesignerdogblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sadieumbrella2-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.yourdesignerdogblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sadieumbrella2-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.yourdesignerdogblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sadieumbrella2-620x826.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I took this picture on the day that Sadie first discovered umbrellas. I don&#8217;t typically\u00a0use an umbrella, preferring to just dash in and out of the car or house.\u00a0Plus it&#8217;s just too much to juggle with my purse and Sadie on\u00a0her leash. <!--more--><br \/>\nBut on this particular day I needed to run to the store in the pouring rain, and since I\u00a0was leaving Sadie home during my errand,\u00a0I decided to bring my umbrella. When I\u00a0got\u00a0home I left the\u00a0umbrella open\u00a0in the hallway to dry like I usually do.\u00a0A few minutes later the hallway erupts with\u00a0barks and growls and I run in to find Sadie confronting the unfamiliar object that&#8217;s invading her territory. So naturally I grab my camera and sit down to watch what\u00a0she&#8217;s going to do next. At first it was lots of barking and kicking back her legs, trying to claim her territory. Once she saw that the umbrella wasn&#8217;t responding to her\u00a0intimidation tactics, she felt confident enough to inch closer and begin sniffing it. And that&#8217;s when someone shut the door to another\u00a0room, creating a draft that sent the umbrella rocking and scared the heck out of\u00a0my dog.\u00a0Of course I felt bad that she got scared, so I grabbed the umbrella and held it steady for her, showing her that it was safe to resume her sniffing. Soon Sadie&#8217;s confidence came back and she even stepped inside the overturned umbrella and sat down, allowing me to take the above picture. Then Sadie realized the umbrella could make a fun toy if you hit it and\u00a0make it start rolling around on the floor. It was absolutely adorable to watch for a while, until the playing got rougher and my umbrella was in mortal danger and had to be taken away. I love seeing her overcome her fears like she did that day. I just wish her confidence didn&#8217;t come at the cost of a dead umbrella.<\/p>\n<p>This post is part of the Blogging From A to\u00a0Z April <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourdesignerdogblog.com\/category\/a-to-z-challenge\/\" target='_blank' >Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/slimdoggy.com\/\" target='_blank' >Slimdoggy<\/a>&#8216;s blog hop below for other great pet blogs taking the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourdesignerdogblog.com\/category\/a-to-z-challenge\/\" target='_blank' >challenge<\/a> with me!<\/p>\n<p>This post is part of the Thursday Barks and Bytes blog hop brought to you by <a href=\"http:\/\/2browndawgs.com\/\" target='_blank' >2 Brown Dawgs<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heartlikeadog.com\/\" target='_blank' >Heart Like A Dog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-AZNUItqljSc\/UuZ51CWxPpI\/AAAAAAAAL80\/ejId21eb75Y\/s1600\/U.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-AZNUItqljSc\/UuZ51CWxPpI\/AAAAAAAAL80\/ejId21eb75Y\/s1600\/U.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><!-- start LinkyTools script --><script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkytools.com\/thumbnail_linky_include.aspx?id=231679\"><\/script><!-- end LinkyTools script --> \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20446\" src=\"http:\/\/2browndawgs.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/bb3b_fotor1.png?w=667\" alt=\"B&amp;B3b_Fotor\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><!-- start LinkyTools script --><script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkytools.com\/thumbnail_linky_include.aspx?id=232375\"><\/script><!-- end LinkyTools script --><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\nThanks for liking us! Sadie and I really appreciate the love!<br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is part of the Blogging From A to\u00a0Z April <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourdesignerdogblog.com\/category\/a-to-z-challenge\/\" target='_blank' >Challenge<\/a>. Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/slimdoggy.com\/\" target='_blank' >Slimdoggy<\/a>&#8216;s blog hop below for other great pet blogs taking the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourdesignerdogblog.com\/category\/a-to-z-challenge\/\" target='_blank' >challenge<\/a> with me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[154,182,16,22,28,29,34,49,53,62,63,67],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-to-z-challenge","tag-atozchallenge","tag-alphabet-blogging","tag-blog","tag-car","tag-cute","tag-designer-dogs","tag-dogs","tag-heart","tag-love","tag-pets","tag-photography","tag-sadie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourdesignerdogblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourdesignerdogblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourdesignerdogblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourdesignerdogblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourdesignerdogblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourdesignerdogblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourdesignerdogblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourdesignerdogblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yourdesignerdogblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourdesignerdogblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yourdesignerdogblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}