Sounds a lot like Lola. She's 5 on Wednesday but still acts like a puppy a lot of the time but she's still the best dog.
She's been stuck in because of the heat sowhen she finally got out last night I took her to her favourite spot and she just ran around made chasing then being chased by me. It was so nice.
does she let you use her as a pillow yet ? a dog pillow is one of the best things ever ...snuggle time with the doggo !Now that Kiira is home longer, she's starting to let her inner husky out more and more. It can be adorable, but also a major pain in the ass. The greeting random strangers with a full blown AAWWWOOOWOOOO is quite cute (even though some people find it very intimidating ). The sitting down randomly because she wants to go in a different direction and refusing to move can be quite annoying.
Here's her parking in the middle of a bridge because the side we weren't going to had dogs barking at each other...
But she makes up for it by being a good girl plenty of times and just generally being the cutest being on earth quite often
does she let you use her as a pillow yet ? a dog pillow is one of the best things ever ...snuggle time with the doggo !
If they're not already in your bag of tricks, various "enrichment feeding" things are a good thing to try out to keep a smart dog mentally stimulated (snuffle mats, scatter feeding, various toys that slowly trickle out kibble while the dog interacts with it like the kong wobbler, etc). Dart doesn't get any of his food in a normal food bowl these days and it helps a lot.Yeah with Kiira the hard part is to also give her enough mental stimulation. She's simply fucking smart, so she needs/wants a lot of training and things to do that are interesting to keep her satisfied. If we slack on that for two days she just becomes a bit of a dick the moment we leave the house.
If they're not already in your bag of tricks, various "enrichment feeding" things are a good thing to try out to keep a smart dog mentally stimulated (snuffle mats, scatter feeding, various toys that slowly trickle out kibble while the dog interacts with it like the kong wobbler, etc). Dart doesn't get any of his food in a normal food bowl these days and it helps a lot.
If they're not already in your bag of tricks, various "enrichment feeding" things are a good thing to try out to keep a smart dog mentally stimulated (snuffle mats, scatter feeding, various toys that slowly trickle out kibble while the dog interacts with it like the kong wobbler, etc). Dart doesn't get any of his food in a normal food bowl these days and it helps a lot.
I've been buying those and similar types since I got my first dog and some dogs take to them and others don't . My first dog I just gave it as a toy (long before the internet so even though it probably said it was a treat toy i just treated <<<<,see what i did it as a ball toy and he never really engaged it that much. With Callie I started a thing where whenever I left the house I would stick a treat inside so it was like me saying "hey I'll be going but you know the routine" and she would always have it empty when i came back. Sonny is the same ....he is a master at them and I can even had a beef treet in there and he'll still manage to get it out. I did notice his method for dry treats like a milkbone is he will basically just chomp down and break the biscuit so it falls out but I 've seen him also stick his tongue in there and somehow get it out.We got one of those Kong ball thingys you put treats in. First couple of days we had, the dog was totally engaged. Not sure if the treats I put in it were too big or something but she had a hard time getting them out. She then started rolling it directly under a couch and then coming back to me with a different toy.
We smear some peanut butter on the inside, then throw in a few bits of her food, then a tiny bit more peanut butter, throw the whole thing in the freezer for an hour or two. That way the treats are "stuck" without being super hard to get out, and the licking the frozen stuff seems to really satisfy her. It's worth a shot, but it also just might not be for your dog.We got one of those Kong ball thingys you put treats in. First couple of days we had, the dog was totally engaged. Not sure if the treats I put in it were too big or something but she had a hard time getting them out. She then started rolling it directly under a couch and then coming back to me with a different toy.
Every dog we've ever had could clean one of those out in under 2 minutes with furious lickatude. They would then stare at us like "More peanut butter please"Also, for clarification, the thing we have is this one: