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Your most memorable moment with your animal partner...❤️
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K9liberty
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When I got my first, my step son had been screaming about wanting a dog, and my best friend's dog had just had puppies. Dad was German Shepherd, Husky, wolf mix. Mom was German Shepherd.
I finally relented and grabbed the biggest of the litter. My friend had named the puppies with names that basically described them physically. This one's name basically had to do with his dietary habits of eating so much that he would look like a bowling ball on legs.
The name stuck, and of course before we relented to the kid getting a puppy, we had the usual speech about how he was to be the one taking care of him.
Of course that didn't last long and it fell on me.
But he had this ear thing when he was a puppy. One ear up, and the other flopped forward. Cute as hell!
I remember one day when I was outside, and up until this point, he had lived outside, and I was just out there probably drinking a beer and clearing my head and he ran up to me, and I reached down and petted him and such, and for no reason just started talking to him. I so clearly remember the way he looked at me. Looked me right in the eyes and didn't gaze off elsewhere.
Turning his head from side to side like he was really trying to process what I was saying.
But just the look in his eyes...... It was like you could SEE his mind working... I remember saying "The lights are really on in you".
At some point later, when my wife was around, I told her to look in his eyes. I didn't give her any indication of what to look for. For all she knew, she was looking for an eye infection.
She stared into his eyes and he held that same eye contact with her that he did with me.
My wife kinda looked at me confused, wondering what I was talking about, and I told her again, to look into his and tell me what you feel. Confused, she went and locked eyes with him again and I think at that point she started picking up on what I was getting at buy maybe afraid to say it. I asked her if looking into his eyes was anything like anything she had ever experienced before, and she was like "No.. I've never seen anything like that or even close".
After that, he came to live inside. Potty training consisted of telling him to potty outside.
He listened better than the kids. Never really had to scold him. I did at one point, and the look on his face about brought me to tears. From then on, I just spoke to him like I'm typing now.
I never once trained him, but at one point I just asked him if he knew what "sit down" meant. He sat. "Shake?", and held my hand out, he put his paw in my hand. "Where did you learn this? How?"
I could really go on and on for days about the things he did that still amaze me to this day.
But it was him that taught me. He was the one that taught me to listen to him. By listen, I really mean pay attention to the way they communicate. Body language, facial expressions.
At some point I really found myself literally falling in love with him. That one was difficult to explain to the wife. Up until him, I had never really considered the zoo in myself. It just happened. I can't explain it to this day. I just found myself in love with him, and sex just crept into my mind in a very natural way. The way it would with a woman. It confused me. Fucked me up in the head. But at some point I just acknowledged how I felt as being the real deal, and something to do with nature or God, but in any case, not a fault within me, but something that was put there on purpose, whether genetic evolution or whatever.
Off topic again, but yea. Memories of those ears and that first time he looked me in the eyes, like he was trying to stare into my soul while at the same time showing me his..
Damn, I miss him.....
I finally relented and grabbed the biggest of the litter. My friend had named the puppies with names that basically described them physically. This one's name basically had to do with his dietary habits of eating so much that he would look like a bowling ball on legs.
The name stuck, and of course before we relented to the kid getting a puppy, we had the usual speech about how he was to be the one taking care of him.
Of course that didn't last long and it fell on me.
But he had this ear thing when he was a puppy. One ear up, and the other flopped forward. Cute as hell!
I remember one day when I was outside, and up until this point, he had lived outside, and I was just out there probably drinking a beer and clearing my head and he ran up to me, and I reached down and petted him and such, and for no reason just started talking to him. I so clearly remember the way he looked at me. Looked me right in the eyes and didn't gaze off elsewhere.
Turning his head from side to side like he was really trying to process what I was saying.
But just the look in his eyes...... It was like you could SEE his mind working... I remember saying "The lights are really on in you".
At some point later, when my wife was around, I told her to look in his eyes. I didn't give her any indication of what to look for. For all she knew, she was looking for an eye infection.
She stared into his eyes and he held that same eye contact with her that he did with me.
My wife kinda looked at me confused, wondering what I was talking about, and I told her again, to look into his and tell me what you feel. Confused, she went and locked eyes with him again and I think at that point she started picking up on what I was getting at buy maybe afraid to say it. I asked her if looking into his eyes was anything like anything she had ever experienced before, and she was like "No.. I've never seen anything like that or even close".
After that, he came to live inside. Potty training consisted of telling him to potty outside.
He listened better than the kids. Never really had to scold him. I did at one point, and the look on his face about brought me to tears. From then on, I just spoke to him like I'm typing now.
I never once trained him, but at one point I just asked him if he knew what "sit down" meant. He sat. "Shake?", and held my hand out, he put his paw in my hand. "Where did you learn this? How?"
I could really go on and on for days about the things he did that still amaze me to this day.
But it was him that taught me. He was the one that taught me to listen to him. By listen, I really mean pay attention to the way they communicate. Body language, facial expressions.
At some point I really found myself literally falling in love with him. That one was difficult to explain to the wife. Up until him, I had never really considered the zoo in myself. It just happened. I can't explain it to this day. I just found myself in love with him, and sex just crept into my mind in a very natural way. The way it would with a woman. It confused me. Fucked me up in the head. But at some point I just acknowledged how I felt as being the real deal, and something to do with nature or God, but in any case, not a fault within me, but something that was put there on purpose, whether genetic evolution or whatever.
Off topic again, but yea. Memories of those ears and that first time he looked me in the eyes, like he was trying to stare into my soul while at the same time showing me his..
Damn, I miss him.....