how is this ridiculous thing ±9️⃣ years old & i've had her for 5️⃣ years already?! 🎊
& so proud of her for now getting her sea legs as a senior dog! 🚤 ⚓
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for context of her progress, some "before" photos: prior to adopting her (2020), right after bringing her home (just over to my house on the same farm property she'd lived on most of her life, 2021), & also prior to becoming an only dog (2022)...the difference is VERY apparent! (i was overseas for 2023, & y'all have seen photos of her on posts here since)
she's now consistently been a healthy weight for her size, breed mix, & age, she's spoiled absolutely rotten with love & attention & enrichment & training & care, her confidence keeps increasing, she's such a well-behaved "guard dog" now, & generally just so much happier. that i can see her true personality, intelligence, agility, & perceptiveness/intuition/empathy (with me, other people & animals, & especially with kids!)...she's transformed into a completely different dog, for the better. & it's so lovely that other people notice the positive change, too!
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this is the put-on-purpose little baby puppy face of the most pitifully bored dog, who is so chuffed with herself since she just got her way:
it's been raining, so she's resigned herself to staying inside, & i've been working in my easy chair or standing at various counters. which means...i cannot continuously cuddle with her...*gasp* HOW DARE I?!
so after her being up in my face the entire day (including pouty looks, snoot nudges, her just barely audible thus incredibly annoying "whine/cry breathing," fake coughs, & ONE singular defiant bark, despite getting plenty of attention, treats, & playing otherwise), i finally gave in & am now working from bed, with her happily laying against & head cheekily resting on me, of course.
hello yes do you know how awkward it is to have a giant dog that loves any & all children so much, that when i take her to the beach she starts crying when they are still like 100m away & does her darndest to look as friendly as possible while trying to hide her desperate excitement, & then there is an embarrassingly weird role reversal where i have to ask the parents “can my dog come say hi to your kids?”
nothing like a 10-hour, overnight, late summer-style thunderstorm in early spring to remind you just how heavy a 90lb/40kg dog is...(as she was laying with her entire weight on me while trembling in fear the whole night)
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guess who successfully tracked a genet, with no prior training or instruction? my darling doofus did!! (i myself have been professionally trained in wildlife tracking, though.)
cannot express how proud i am of this dog & how far she's come in showing her intelligence & abilities over the last year.
(not a photo of where she tracked, but just look how chuffed she is with herself on this hike!)
last night, she absolutely lost her mind over something in the garden, but i had to call her in, since i didn't want her bolting into the forest or down the gorge in the dark to chase whatever it was (she's very good at dropping her prey drive/interest when asked), & heaven forbid it was a nefarious character that was armed (we've been having such issues in the area lately, unfortunately).
she did it again when i let her out this morning, i checked the area she was particularly & repeatedly interested in...& ta-da, there was genet spoor! (did i accidentally step on the only identifiable tracks before i could take a photo? yes, i did.)
she's also done really well when my friend with actual trained, actively working conservation detection dogs comes to visit.
but all of this really hammers home just how held back she was by my former partner's menace of a jack russell (look, i loved that little shit like my own baby, but he was still a terror, that i spent years training & managing/improving/maintaining his behaviour/personality).
she really seemed so dof (dumb) & empty-headed before; she would completely biff catching treats/toys, wouldn't hardly play, was generally desperate, etc., all because that little dog with napoleon syndrome would bulldoze his way to get at anything first, even if he initially wasn't interested, & not stop until he "won" & she gave up.
to think, that i could have trained her years ago, had another avenue of conservation involvement, & further enriched this dog's life...
