That the white one didn't blink an eye when I put the prescribed wrap on him.
So my wrapping technique leaves something to be desired. Trying to get out all the folds and wrinkles left us both a little irked and impatient so we left them in. He is trying to pretend that he doesn't look like like a pregnant woman with a belly band on!That he snuffled around the muzzle I left on the floor and was totally unmoved despite his initial reaction.
That despite our initial (ok MY initial) panicked beginnings, TWO and Hudson get along great and never get snarky or argue over bones, bully sticks or toys.
That when we were out walking on our supposedly deserted trail this morning, he merely gave the evil eye to a bike that passed us unsuspectingly close on our left.
That there are actually manners in this house now and we know things like "Get in your bed" and the dogs actually do it.
That we are all a lot more relaxed and go with the flow than we used to be. Except when TWO shrieks at passing pedestrians. Then I have been known to lose my cool and yell :)
That I can intuitively figure out most of the answers to most of my training questions using the basic precepts of positive reinforcement.
That TWO's feet are losing their weird purple hue with the advent of his raw diet.
That I have less waste to pick up with the raw diet and it almost looks like a pug lives in my back yard and not a Maremma Sheepdog!
That TWO loves the car and we never went through an adjustment or fake honeymoon phase on that one issue.
That Hudson is an old man and I only have one teenager to deal with!
Things I am grateful for when it comes to me:
That I have great friends and family who have watched in disbelief (when I added to the small menagerie); awe (that a dog can be so fabulous and difficult at the same time) and with complete support for my harebrained ideas. Oh yeah. And all the money my parents have given me to help me out with what started out as a dog project and became my emotional, expensive "Just a Dog", love of my life pet.
That I have work to distract me and remind me that things can always get crazier!
That I have a healthy body...finally...and I can actually out run and outlast my dogs.
That I can go to yoga to be calm...even if there are 15 year old kids with no body fat doing yoga with me on a Friday (aren't they supposed to be in school????) who are all legs and flexibility, I can still do the whole class without lying down in exhaustion next to them. That's not to imply that they won't recover in 2 hours and it will take me 2 days...
That I have a beautiful house and yard that I love and is a lot of work but well worth it. Kind of like TWO.
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About the purple paws - YES! You will absolutely see that fade on raw. It's quite amazing. I'm not entirely sure about the trigger but I suspect it's a grain - either wheat or corn.
The wrap looks pretty much how mine did, except I used diaper pins so didn't have knots. The nice thing about using diaper pins is that if your 'end' ends up in some weird spot you don't have to re-wrap and they don't have the knot interfering with lying down or pressing in some weird spot. You can still find diaper pins in small baby specialty boutiques because there still are crazy folks like me who use flat cloth diapers LOL.
I'm really liking TWO as a name.
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