Very happy, very worry-free, very happy…
My parents have a Labrador, a boy, born with a super angel personality. His mother was also raised by us since she was a child, and she was also very well behaved. Later, we couldn’t keep two big dogs at home, so we gave his mother to my parents’ good friend.
Dog Za is five and a half years old this year, and he is very, very stable and mature. My family lives in an apartment building. When it is the coldest in winter and the hottest in summer, he will live upstairs for a while. At other times, he lives in a ten-square-meter bungalow downstairs. He hardly barks at ordinary times.
Let me count how angelic he is:
1. He learned to defecate at a fixed point very early. When he just opened his eyes, he was the first one in a litter to stagger out of the nest and go to the other side of the balcony to poop and pee. After two months, he could go downstairs and started to poop and pee at home. When he was anxious, he would use his mouth to push people and his claws to scratch people, while humming, and lead people to the door to open the door to pee and poop.
2. He is very good at observing people’s words and expressions. When he was more than 20 days old, he was a fluffy little meatball, playing with a bunch of puppies. When I hooked my hand or smiled at him, he would tilt his head and look at me for a second or two, then run to me happily to be touched and hugged. When I was unhappy, my face was full of anger or sorrow, and he would look at me from a distance, his eyes full of concern, wanting to get close but not daring to get close… He became even more clever when he grew up. When he did something wrong and met people, he would always hang his head and tuck his tail, waiting to be bullied. After bullying him, he would be happy and intimate for a second. Now if the whole family is here, he will be unhappy if I get angry with him, and turn around to circle around my parents for comfort… But he never remembers grudges… When the whole family goes out and can’t see me, I will still be anxious and run around
3. Don’t touch things randomly. Three months ago, he also had bad habits such as biting slippers and gloves. Later, I caught him biting gloves and gave him a good beating, and he has since broken the bad habit of biting and biting things randomly. After half a year, he would never rummage around without permission for anything on the table or bed at home, including meat, bones, and all kinds of delicious food. He would not rummage around when he was alone at home.
4. Learn to pick up objects without a teacher. After three months of vaccination, Gouzha began to follow my parents to climb mountains and take walks every morning and evening. When he was about half a year old, he picked up a mineral water bottle that was thrown away by someone by chance while climbing the mountain. My dad asked him to pick it up and handed it to my dad, and he was praised. From then on, he would pick up mineral water bottles when he went out. The mineral water bottles he picked up while climbing the mountain in a summer could be sold for dozens of yuan. Hahahahaha… Others said that he knew how to be self-reliant,
and later he developed a love for helping people carry things. In the morning, after morning exercises, my parents would go down the mountain to buy vegetables on the way. He would rush to help, hang the bag of vegetables on his biggest teeth, and open his mouth and stick out his tongue while carrying vegetables. Later, because I was afraid that it would hurt his teeth for a long time, I would not let him carry vegetables.
Now, every time he finishes eating, he will pick up his food bowl, walk to the faucet in the yard, wait for someone to wash his food bowl, and then take it back to his hut… Super self-conscious…
5. Intimacy with people but within limits. Labradors are extroverted, similar to golden retrievers, and are super affectionate. My dog is the same. When he is led on the road and someone greets him, he will definitely go forward to greet them in return – he will use his mouth to nudge their hand, or let others touch him all over.
But the amazing thing about him is that, although he is affectionate to anyone else except my parents and me, no one else can take him away…so there is no chance of him being abducted…he will not leave even if you give him food.
When he was a child, he went hiking with my parents once. My parents and I did not exercise in the same place at the top of the mountain. When we were going down the mountain, my dad asked the dog to look for my mom, but my mom took another way down the mountain. When we got home, we found that the dog was gone, so we hurried back to the mountain to look for him. We searched everywhere and were so anxious that my mom got a call from a fellow hiker, asking where the two of you were and why you abandoned your dog on the mountain… Your dog was so anxious, and I wanted to help you bring him back, but he wouldn’t let anyone touch him… Later, of course, we successfully brought the dog home…it was a false alarm…
6. He can understand a lot of people’s words. At two months old, he already knew commands like “sit, lie down, shake hands, roll over”. My mom spent the past two years at home chatting with the dog all day long to teach him to recognize things, and successfully trained the dog to be a smart person. For example, when my parents go to work, the dog wants to follow them when they go out. My parents will say, Beibei, we are going to work, you wait at home, be obedient. The dog will go back to sleep obediently. My mom: Beibei, go to the kitchen and get an apple! The dog: happily took an apple and put it in… My mom: Beibei, that’s someone else’s thing, you are not allowed to touch it. The dog: obediently put your head back and stay by my mom’s side. Me: Beibei, cross the road, quickly. The dog: bumped through the crosswalk by himself. There are too many similar examples.
7. Super obedience. Now when I walk him with a leash, as long as he doesn’t poop or pee, he always walks close to people, and adjusts his speed according to how fast we walk. It’s really like a guide dog. The situation of the dog walking people has not happened since he was one year old. When we were going downstairs, there was a neighbor who was afraid of dogs, so when we went out, we would tell him, Beibei, follow behind me, and he would follow us downstairs obediently, never rushing to the front.
I remembered a very touching thing. More than two years ago, when the dog was about three years old, I had a quarrel with my then boyfriend and now husband and was on the verge of breaking up. I went back to my hometown to accompany my parents on the weekend. On the way back on Sunday, my mother brought the dog downstairs to see me off. At that time, I don’t know why my mother had a brain twitch, and said to the dog, “Beibei, you go with ** (my name).” Neither of us took it seriously and I drove away. As a result, after walking out of the house and waiting for the traffic light, I found that my dog was running towards me in the rearview mirror, and my mother was left behind. I quickly pulled over, picked up the dog and walked back. I met my mother who was panting and said that the dog really thought that my mother asked him to go with me. As soon as my car left the yard, he was like crazy and couldn’t be held at all, and ran out to chase me. I was so moved that I almost cried. I thought to myself, what a stupid man! I might as well get a dog. Kakaka.
He is my family, and we all love him very much.
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