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Ten weeks on and Chicco has finally begun acting like a happy young dog
Ten weeks on and Chicco has finally begun acting like a happy young
dog. Sunday the whole family (11 of us) gathered at a cousin's house for a bayram (holiday) dinner and because I still can't leave Chicco alone for extended periods of time he accompanied me. He was very well behaved, remaining in mostly a sit-stay position by my side the whole time and not begging anything from the table. Very good performance overall. We returned home towards midnight and as soon as we were inside the house it was like a dam broke or something: he began racing wildly and joyfully back and forth between the living room and the bedroom: up onto the couch or armchair, down onto the floor, into the bedroom, up onto the bed, back to the living room, repeat. He kept this up for about ten minutes and then he did something he's never done in the ten weeks he's been with me: he went to a little basket that we keep his chewed bones in and picked out a toy-a kind of soft spiky rubber ball that used to belong to Bal?m and I held onto for a nephew and niece's dog that I sometimes take care of when they're away-and began tossing it around and pouncing on it. He'd never showed this kind of behavior before, never showed any sort of interest in play or indeed in any object that wasn't edible. This gave me an idea so I got out an old sock of mine whose toe was close to developing a hole, tied it in a knot and initiated the pull-toy game. He took to it immediately. After making sure he understood the game, I tossed the sock and he raced after it, picked it up, and began shaking it vigorously like a terrier killing a rat. After a few tries he learned to bring the sock back to me so I could toss it again. Repeat. We kept this up for close to half an hour. We both slept very soundly that night. I'm not sure why this happened. Perhaps he's finally got over the trauma of being abandoned. -- Bob St Francis would have done better to preach to the cats |
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