Moshi and Callie
Moshi trying so hard to get Callie to play. Callie being unimpressed. 😂
With most of the snow gone, there's so much to sniff!
Theo was very busy
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Teaching Check ins with Kyo
Working on check-ins with Kyo!
Check ins help immensely if you want to give your dog some off leash time, as they'll check in while off leash as well! This helps with recall and helps keep your dog from wandering off too far.
Notice the exchange while the girls play.
Sometimes Moshi self handicaps, and sometimes Jane does. This is what good play should always look like.
They should be taking turns.
This is the difference between consensual play and non consensual play. Non consensual play one is usually always trying to get away from the other. They're not taking turns. The one who doesn't want to play will often have a more rigid body posture, head bowed, stiff tail, ears pulled back and will vocalize with growls.
What play behaviours are you seeing in this video?
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Memories of Boss
Boss's favourite season was winter. He loved playing in the snow. He loved when I kicked the snow, he'd jump trying to catch it. He loved when I found clumps of snow, because he loved destroying them. He loved digging in the snow. Every snow fall meant going outside to play.
It snowed all day yesterday. A lot. Every time I looked out the window and saw snowflakes, I thought, "this is such good weather for Boss to play in".
But he's not here.
A lot of snow also means broken branches.
So I'd take Boss to the park to see if there were branches that had fallen. He liked to use them for fetch, for tug, loved to destroy them.
When I see broken branches, I think "Boss would have liked that one" or "that's a good stick for Boss".
There's so much missing with him gone.
Like the void keeps getting bigger every time something happens that Boss would do, or something I would do with him when... All the "firsts" without him.
they just emphasize his absence.
Miss my grumpy old man.
Dog Party
Party time for Jane and Moshi.
Jane + Boss Play
Boss growls when he plays. Jane basically pulling the "but I'm not touching you" card lol
Hyper hour for Callie and Boss.
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In case you were wondering why I nicknamed Jane, Hurricane Jane. 🤣
She's coming back to stay with us this week!
It's 11pm and 16 year old Boss is hyper.
At 16, he spends most of the day sleeping. We went for an hour long walk at 1pm today. Once we got home, he fell asleep around 3pm, woke up at 10, and now wants to play!
I cherish his "witching hour" because it's the time of day when he's like a puppy again. He doesn't play like this much or often, so I won't stop him when he has this burst of energy.
I know our days our numbered. He may live another couple years, or he may not wake up tomorrow morning, so I want to take advantage of every moment I can with him.
Even when he wakes up with the zoomies at 2am, or wants to play at 11pm, whatever. I follow his lead. I'm not gonna force him to play when he's not well, or in pain from the arthritis.
Boss and I's favourite game is "wrestling". He looks and sounds so mean and tough but he's being so gentle and goofy.
Does your dog have a witching hour?
Israel's genocide isn't only a humanitarian issue, it's also an environmental one and one of animal welfare.
Israeli soldiers beheaded animals and hung their heads on posts.
Zoo animals were left stranded in the zoo, starving to death and for those living with others within their enclosure, they ate each other.
Donkeys and horses have lost limbs in bombings.
Family pets were left behind, many let their pets loose thinking their dog or cat had a better chance of survival this way.
While humans get buried under the rubble, being killed on impact, or painfully and slowly suffocate or starve to death after not being found or unable to be rescued, animals share that same fate.
While we all know Trump wouldn't do anything to stop this, don't be fooled into thinking Kamala would. She hasn't said she would. What she HAS said is that she supports Israel and that she wouldn't have done differently than Biden.
In Canada, while Jagmeet has called for a ceasefire once or twice, it seems to be more for show than anything else. We have zero politicians who will or even want to do anything about the genocide.
Ceasefire now. End the occupation.
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