Dec '24 (edited) • "FRIDAY THOUGHTS"
FRIDAY THOUGHTS 12/6: "EVEN BRENDA..."
“EVEN BRENDA...”
Brenda was an amazing dog who spent many nights at the dog-boarding facility I once had the privilege of working afternoon/evenings at in Orlando, FL when I was a full-time teacher during the day. She was a beautiful yellow lab and served as a bomb-sniffing dog for the local hospital in Orlando. She was unfit for home living because of her intensity and her need to focus on her important job... In fact, there were usually 7-8 legitimate working dogs (German Shepherds & Labs) that were on contract to come in the afternoon/evenings and stay the nights there at the facility each week. BUT...BRENDA, specifically, was one of the sweetest dogs I had ever been around...and I loved interacting with her! She was very well-trained by a local trainer who worked the hospitals with her, and she was almost perfect in every way!!
HOWEVER...there was this one little annoying behavior she had...one that was fairly consistent each week. Often, as I was getting ready to close down the facility for the night, after cleaning, sweeping, and mopping all the main areas in the two buildings, washing all the food bowls, refilling water, picking up poop in the yards, etc...etc...etc...It was THEN...that BRENDA would PEE a ton on the floor of her kennel or on her elevated dog bed as...even though she had been out in the play yards plenty of times throughout the day and into the late night. Unfortunately, this meant that I would have to go get the mop AGAIN and do some extra cleaning before leaving for the night! This was incredibly frustrating...YET…she was still such an amazing dog!
---- Even after we have worked so hard with our dogs and they still have little quirks here and there that seem to bother us and get under our skin...it's important to try to have patience and a wider lens for how awesome your dog actually is!
Brenda was the real deal...an incredible dog…helping keep the community safe, etc.! But EVERY DOG has some sort of annoying quirk.... "...EVEN BRENDA…"
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FRIDAY THOUGHTS 12/6: "EVEN BRENDA..."
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