A Week of Gratitude, Day Two - MIss Jackson Pi

Tuesday, December 2, 2014
I'm a good, GOOD dog. As long as you don't look too closely.
I have to admit - getting Miss Jackson Pi was more than a little impulsive on my part. Because she was a rescue, we didn't know a lot about her past, or how easy or hard it would be to train her (hint: it was the latter). We knew that she had been cared for from a medical perspective, but not how she'd been treated or trained.

So the first few months were...challenging.

She's better now, for the most part. Her house manners are excellent (better than Boogie's in some ways, truth be told), and her reactivity has decreased steadily. She's still a head-case when it comes to leash aggression, but we're not sure she'll ever get over that, since we don't know what happened to instigate it.

Mostly, she's just funny. A complete goober, with no sense of dignity or appropriateness. She prefers to be near me whenever possible (that whole "work from home full time" thing), and she keeps me good company. She also gets me out of the house, even on days when I'd really rather not, even though I know it's good for me.

In the last year, I've been grateful for having another dog in my life, even if she does occasionally shed explosively.

2 comments:

Phiala said...

Miss Jackson is a cutie. I'm glad she mostly makes you happy. Trygvi is just the same about the appropriateness. Such a change from the wolfie.

Janiece said...

Just so, Phiala. Boogs was such stately older gentleman in his later years, we'd forgotten how much ENERGY a strong, healthy youngster has.