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worst part about getting angry is how much it makes you want to be mean
sorry i said something dickish. a few mildly frustrating things happened to me in succession and it turned me evil
want to see the best picture of Kep I’ve ever taken
if you own a pet and I follow you on tumblr there is a 90%+ chance that at some point in casual conversation I have brought up your pet to someone by saying, like, “oh yeah I have a friend with that breed” or “my friend with the (dog/cat breed) posted this picture” or whatever bc that’s just easier to say than ‘person on tumblr I follow and sometimes leave comments on.’ which is also to say, you all also have full permission to refer to me as your friend also, if you want to show someone a picture of my pets or tell them something. I don’t care if we’re never talked. give me a fun backstory. ride or die.
the fact that after 20+ minutes of trying to get this dog to stand square and this is literally the best frame that I got is definitely a testament to my lack of ability.
anyway here’s wonderwall Kep at 11 months old
kep report card for october. how is he already almost a year old tf.
Leash Walking: 🟡/🔴 on a martingale collar he walks ok, though does need frequent corrections to remind him not to pull. on a harness he's much more pully and bruised the shit out of my hand recently. does a lot better when i'm walking him alone but i cant really do that much due to time limits.
Manners - People: 🟢/🟡 very good, just still working on not jumping on ppl.
Manners - Dogs: 🟢 no complaints, social butterfly.
Manners - Home: 🟡 gotten better about countersurfing but having some regression on settling in the house. and, of course. the piss.
Manners - Public Spaces: 🟢/🟡 will try to mark if i'm not watching him carefully but otherwise no complaints
Grooming: 🟡 fine if there's food, incredibly squirmy if there's not. need to work on weaning off food and tolerating restraint, since at some point he'll need to go to a real groomer.
Recall: 🟢/🟡 if i call him off a distraction he often comes immediately, but when we're just like chilling at home it's 50/50.
Crating: 🟢 whines a bit sometimes but gets over it eventually.
Fear/Anxiety: 🟢 no issues lately
Volume: 🟢 he really only barks when hes very excited (e.g. playing with other dogs, visitors have come over) otherwise he's blissfully silent.
Puberty: 🟡 LITTLE PISS BOY TAKING A PISS.
overall good, really the biggest problems we're working on right now is just that he's a large, strong, energetic dog who is still too baby-brain to have a lot of self control. i also dont think it's coincidental that these problems are arising as i'm coming off basically 2 straight months of very hectic work/personal stuff and have been very tired as a result. when we really focus together he does good (see: CGC acquisition) it's just getting that to translate to "ok now do this by default" that's the speedbump, but again, teenage dog and the expectations are low.
stellina i remember really dove straight into adolesence around 5 months old and that didn't stop until she was like 20-22 months. kep it seems like didn't quite go Full Stupid until like 9-10 months so we'll see if it lasts the same amount of time, though i'm really hoping not.
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I sent my parents this picture and my mom said he looks like the Virgin Mary
cosplaying the virgin mary using a nerf halo is so in rn
I’m at my parents house this weekend and Kep is very attentively watching a nature documentary about painted dogs with us
cozlina…
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NOvember. ive had enough
the absolute audacity of this dog to spend 5 minutes licking his horrible little weiner and then come over to me all wiggly waggy like 😋😘 HIII I GIVE KISSIES? 😚 absolutely not. foul beast.
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i've discovered that when i leave kepler a kong stuffed with kibbles and peanut butter and etc he doesn't actually use it the intended way (licking the food out) but rather repeatedly picks it up and drops it or sometimes outright flings it across the room until the food inside is dislodged. which i guess still works, but when i'm sitting at my desk and trying to work from home it's rather distracting having a large rubber projectile being yeeted around behind me.
sitting at my desk trying desperately to stave off an anxiety attack to the rhythmic KA-THUNK THA THUNK. KA-THUNK THA THUNK. KA-THUNK THA THUNK behind me.
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Pickles has announced a coup
Kep caught (“caught”) another rabbit last night that I had to save. I know they’re native wildlife and part of the ecosystem and were here first etc but god they’re so annoying. they insist on digging under my fence to get into my yard (only fenced yard on the street btw) and then they get chased by dogs (as happens EVERY time they’re in my yard, if the dog pee all over the fence wasn’t also an indicator) and then sometimes they panic and forget how they came in so they just pinball off the fence until they inevitably get pinned down by Kep. and he’s nice so he mouths and slobbers on them but doesn’t try to kill, which just means they panic more, and I have to go slip lead him away until the dumb thing remembers how to leave. idk man I’m not a rabbit but it seems like they’re really going out of their way to get harassed here.