Just Pass Me By

It is simply amazing how gentle dad’s dog is, she always been very gentle since day one. It is clear this dog form a very young age was loved and treated with a bunch of compassion, sometimes to a determent of the dog, like potty training hasn’t been a very fun thing to do but she is still well behaved.
If she don’t like something instead of biting she will sit there and simply lick, when I brought this up to the vet, the vet said it a calming technically the dog been using. Instead of biting she try to calm, which is good means she great with kids.
I am just surprise she will let kids around her after where she lived for a short time and was mistreated. She hasn’t turned mean, or anything. This morning I had a couple kids run up to her with sticks, one had a long stick and asked to pet her. I said yes but first drop your stick. I didn’t want Shadow to get scared, because even though she never bite someone I still worry if she scared she just might. Not this dog she will take love from anyone who will give it to her, stick or no stick. It’s amazing after she got her eye shot out she would still be so nice to people and so trusting.
Now since she been living with us she get cared for very well, and not harmed, and never was as a small puppy harmed or abused. Maybe it not bad dogs, but bad owners for dogs who are naughty. I get frustrated when I hear they put down dogs because they are difficult to deal with, ask me I know training a dog out of bad habits is hard, and not easy but I believe it can be done.
Often children around here will ask me why can’t shadow open her eye, and I explain it to them. I tell them what she want through, some kids are to young to get into details because they wouldn’t understand it anyways, but some are old enough to understand. Today I spoke with a little girl who simply couldn’t understand why the dog could no longer open the eye, I finally just said that’s what happens when people shoot be-bee guns are dogs, they lose an eye.
Shadow has calmed down and been less clingy to me, which is good. I was starting to worry we might have a serious attachment issue with the dog, but now she cry not as much when I leave the house. Which is progress, she listening better on her walks and not attacking everything I don’t know about for hubby but for me it seems some of the training is working. I want to try one more thing that I saw yesterday on the dog trainnier on Aminal Planet, I been using a lot of ideas from that show on Shadow and it’s been working well for me.
Shadow was more attached to mom then dad, which is probably why she more attached me to I can’t believe it’s been 9 month since hubby’s mom passed away from cancer. I have experienced one to many deaths in the family from different forms of cancer. I think the worst was mesothelioma, because it progressed so quickly. Mom’s did too but we believe that she had signs of it when they x rayed her heart and found spot on her lung 2 years before she passed away. I asked the doctor if it was cancer he said he didn’t know, I guess they never followed up to that question. Well maybe they could not have done anything back then neither, because she wouldn’t have lasted longer and it might have shorten her life if she found out it was cancer.