#pixel pup

[mbrainspaz]

caught a doggy daycare employee giving my puppy a hug 🥰

now it's my turn

[degazzdraws]

Jayce - The Pupper of Tomorrow. Made some art of Sir Rivington’s pup! Now if only we could teach him to wield a hammer..

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[mbrainspaz]

I bring my 6 month old puppy Pixel to work and yesterday a coworker brought her 6 or 7 year old son. Normally I would not let a barely-trained 25lb mix of every rough-and-tumble dog breed in existence play with a small kid, but she said he'd be fine because they had two border collies at home, and he wanted to play with her. I'm no party pooper.

They ran up and down the hall for a bit with her bouncing up to bite at his ears while he squealed in delight. Mothers have threatened to sue me for less, so I admit I was on edge even though I knew she's been trained not to play too rough. Then she flopped on the ground and let him rub her belly for a while. He tried to push her back up to play some more but she would not.

Queue the hysterical scene of this boy alternately dragging and pushing a limp dog half his size through my office door. He closed the gate and left and she still didn't get up.

I could tell she was dumbfounded by the whole experience. Later when he came back to play again she mostly just sat there looking at him and looking at me as if to say "is this legal?"

When he left for the day she screamed like she was losing her best friend, which I've never seen her do before. He came back to give her one more pat and she got over it.

I'm really lucky she got to have such a good first experience with a little kid who knew how to behave around dogs, and I'm glad she seems to have a good temperament for it. My big old pyrenees/shepherd/cattle dog mix has to wear a muzzle around kids because he sees them as rowdy misbehaving livestock. Which, same, but you can't pinch them with your teeth regardless.

[mbrainspaz]

Pixel pup got loose today because the landlord and his goons were being dumb with the gate. She ran halfway down the sidewalk and stopped, looking guilty. I asked her to come back and I could see her urge to be good was at war with her independent streak. Her warring conscience froze her in place. She could tell she was being bad, but had no idea if she wanted to keep being bad or not. I had to pick her up and carry all 45 lbs of her back to the house.

[mbrainspaz]

Clutching my fierce bully-dog's face in both hands because she was looking dejected for 2 seconds and covering her with kisses while I mutter "don't be deprebst, you're so pretty."

[mbrainspaz]

the apparent final form of my now 41 lb puppy is so confusing. She's every type of bulldog (plus the weirdest variety of hunting dogs for some reason, and Chow Chow). She's 41 lbs but when you see her next to my 25 lb dogs, they all look roughly the same size. My 55lb dog was 3x their size. She's just built so freaking sturdy. But also when she lies in a chair she fills it up like a big dog. I try to pick her up and every time I'm surprised by the dwarf-star mass in her bones.

[mbrainspaz]

could I interest you in a big yawn?

[mbrainspaz]

let's make matcha lattes with mama