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I try to post once a day but yesterday’s interview at a doggie day care and meetup with puppies totally wiped me up. Playing catch up here since I am a little late :P
When Mr P and I met Donna for the first time, she looked like any other mongrel in the shelter. They were mostly brown, black or black and tan like Donna.
The look of a local mongrel. Donna is small for one.
She shook paws and took treats.
When we came out, Mr P’s comment was something to the effect of, “She’s not a looker, but guess she’s smart and trainable.”
Sit, Wait, Run, Fetch, Tug
Is tough choice to fetch or tug
Donna wants do BOTH!
I made the mistake of holding my phone vertically while shooting this video —
You can see her visibly panting (tired and needing to drink) at the end of the video and getting enough of play.
I seldom set up anything for the photos on this blog. Alot of it was: it is happening, quick get the camera/phone. So a lot of the photos were really candid, although some became an exercise in stay, stay, stay… because I am too slow and need her to hold on doing whatever she was doing. :P
Sometimes it works, most times it doesn’t because looking at the human to see if she will get a treat for staying became more important, or she looks away and stops doing whatever cute thing she did.
But I did have to jump some hoops for this shot. And so did Donna.
So we go for a walk. A walk is when you put one foot in front of the other continuously and that movement carries you away to some place else.
Lately, she has decided that a walk also requires you to stay in place for a long time. A loooonnng time. Donna decidedly enjoys just standing in one spot, sniffing the air, listening and observing passerbys.
Rooted in the same spot, observing the world go by.
This is the cute, happy face you see if you are walking towards us.
Note: Thundershirt kindly arranged with their local partner, Hound Habitat, to send to me a sample of the Thundershirt for trial after I wrote to them about Donna’s thunderstorm phobia.
Donna’s thunderstorm phobia seemed to have decreased in the last update.
But it wasn’t going to last.
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This was during the haze period, where the air quality was bad so I had Donna in the study with me with the air-conditioning switched on. She no longer spends everyday here as the study is too cluttered.
