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Labrador Retriever (medium coat) : : Female (spayed) : : Adult Learn more about the Labrador Retriever.
12/16/24 Hi Everyone, Dancer here with an update. I'm so fitting in to this house thing! I am no longer scared of doorway and wood floors. I go outside all by myself and no longer need my foster mom for support. AND I have found this wonderful thing called a COUCH! I watched my foster brothers sleep there day after day and after about 6 weeks I finally thought I'd give it a shot and .....wow, they are comfortable!! My mom finds me relaxing there fairly often now! Although I still dont sit next to my humans when they are there. I like to keep them nearby, but I don't quite snuggle yet. I'm getting into the daily routine with my 2 foster brothers. We eat twice a day, I sleep through the night in a crate, I do all my business outside and I hang out with my brothers free around the house all day! I have also found this awesome place my mom calls the dog park!!! I get to go almost every day with my two foster brothers. There are many other dogs there and I never have any issues with them. I still really don't understand what my foster mom calls 'playing' but I am interested in watching. I also really love to chase after birds and sniff for rabbits and such. My mom says she loves to see my tail up and wagging whenever we go there. I run far up ahead with my foster brothers (I'm waaay faster than both of them!) but then I look around for my foster mom and run back to her. I still get kinda nervous the farther away I am from her. I know the other people who talk to my foster mom there are nice, and they tell me how sweet and pretty I am, but I'm still pretty timid. I sometimes sniff their hand but I'm still a little too afraid for a pet on the head. I do have a broken tooth that isn't causing me any issues now, but my foster mom says it will be better if the nice people I visited before let me take a nap while they take it out.
My foster mom says that I will find a special forever family who will be patient with me getting to know them as well as I know her right now. Loud noises, fast movement and new people get me really scared and I'll head to either my foster mom or my crate until I feel safe again. I think I'd really like other doggos to help me keep learning how to be a house dog, even though I don't really know how to play with them yet. I promise to keep working on it! My foster mom says my birthday is coming up on what a lot of other people call Christmas Day. But we will be celebrating me turning 4! How cool is that. I hope everyone has a really good my birthday too. 11/3/24 Hello everyone! I am Dancer. My sister Cupid and I were born on Christmas Day 2020! Thus, our festive names! I’m a little on the timid side. Loud noises and fast movement still scare me a little. It took me a few tries to get through doorways because thresholds were really scary!! But I’m obviously a brave little trooper at heart, because every once in a while, I start to act like a dog and follow my foster pack brothers and run after the bunnies, squirrels and birds in the back yard and the thresholds don’t bother me any more (unless it is a new doorway). I also do not mind that funny loud thing that sucks up all the dog fur from the hardwood floors. I don’t like it, but I don’t run from it either. My mom tells me I seem to be “potty trained” as I have had no accidents inside the house. However, I still don’t “ask” to go outside. I just follow my foster brothers and go out and do my business when they do. I also feel A LOT better if there is a human outside with me, even if it’s raining or really cold, otherwise I sometimes want to come inside before I do anything. I crate at night and sleep through the night. I like to go in my open crate and just hang out throughout the day. I was a little vocal when crated when no humans were home, but since I do my business outside and have never chewed anything, now I just hang out with my foster brothers contained to the family room when the humans are away. I was a really really brave girl this last week and visited some really friendly people who seemed to LOVE me and all the other animals around (vet). They gave me some sleepy drugs and I woke up later with a little scar and some soreness (spayed) but they all cooed about how much of a good girl I was the entire time I was there! I get to wear an incredibly cute onesie (My foster mom made me say it’s cute. I wear it but I’m not super happy about it) My foster mom says we are going to start going on walks as soon as I heal up a little more. I seem to really like my foster brothers as they are kind of showing me the ropes of this ‘house’ thing. I still have not tried the soft things that my brothers always are sleeping on (couches and beds). I will occasionally cuddle into the dog beds on the ground, but I am not yet a snuggler. I will beg for attention, but I have not yet settled down right next to my humans. I still prefer to get attention and then go back to the crate or a sunny spot in front of a window. Anyway, I’m going to keep learning about this cushy position called ‘house dog’ while the L.E.A.R.N. people and my foster mom look for my forever family.
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