All the L³'s

He used to get bullied for his food so I started sitting with him at meal time to prevent the other dogs from stealing his puck (litters were fed raw up until the last litter).

At around week five and week six is when puppies tend to display their "true personalities", or the traits they're most likely to have as adults. Once the puppies hit that 7 week mark they turn into little terror beasts and many of those traits start to get hidden under all the fun development exercises they go through and the flood of new hormones and such. That super focused and affectionate puppy could very well be an adolescent dysregulated nightmare that can't sit still long enough to cuddle for example.

Once they've start nearing a year old their new owners finally get to start seeing little flashes of the dog that I saw the possibility of when they were babies. I regret to inform you all that those flashes are going to disappear again in a few months once the puberty hormones really kick in but I promise once your puppy is fully mature, usually around2 years old (especially once they're spayed/neutered), all the promise those flashes gave you will be fulfilled!

Apologies for the dogs barking in the background (Parker is jealous).

The liquid is vinegaroon! It's made by mixing white vinegar with metal, usually steel wool because it corroded faster but this batch I made with some old rusty drill bits. Let the metal sit in the vinegar for awhile (a few days is usually good, longer than that and you start getting iron filings dropping out of the solution).

Vinegaroon only interacts with tannins! That's why there isn't much of a reaction with the paper but the leather turns black. It does the same thing with any wood high in tannins too!

This is what I've been using with the dog collars I've been making to turn the edges black and any black work I need in the tooled areas.