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<\/a><\/p>\nI’ve got this.<\/p>\n
I’ve been reading a lot about how to calm anxious and skittish dogs and my hands-off let her come to me approach is generally the accepted one by dog experts.<\/p>\n
That’s all I think I’m going to say about raising my new baby. If I had a human child, I sure wouldn’t talk much of it online, not with the whole world, well meaning as it usually is, having an opinion on the matter. I have my tight circle of fellow doggie moms to rely on if I get stuck, but, most important, I have to trust myself as much as the refuge trusted me to take on this formidable task. I can’t do that if differing opinions have me second guessing myself all the time.<\/p>\n
But I will share a few things that I’ve already learned about my fur baby:<\/p>\n
-She gives better tongue baths than do cats — smooth tongue and no drool!<\/p>\n
-It doesn’t matter how well you stir her medication into her food, she will pick it out;<\/p>\n
-She’s not sure what to do with toys and soft beds;<\/p>\n
-She loves being scratched behind the ears;<\/p>\n
-She really likes dog biscuits;<\/p>\n
-She’s not so sure about peanut butter, to which she would say, “Maybe if mom doesn’t try to hide my vitamin in it next time, I’ll like it better. But ha ha ha I made it burst and it splashed ALL OVER her.”<\/p>\n
So there’s already been laughs and tender cuddles and tonight, I sat on the bench on my porch for the first time and realised that nights here can be really tranquil with the Earth smelling so fresh that it’s like being in a completely different place. “I would have never known this had I not gotten a dog,” I thought.<\/p>\n
And so, I find myself changing with her and discovering how much I’ve missed the gentle clinking of ID tags telling me I have soft kisses and cuddles coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As expected, Bonita had a rough first night so her first day felt like two steps back from last night. That’s to be expected. What I didn’t expect was for her to spend the day coming in and out of my office, as I’d hoped she eventually would. When she finally came into the room […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[895],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37859"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37866,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37859\/revisions\/37866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}