#two years!!!

[justfriendsbestthings]

Happy two years to when I met Omar for the first time. I never stood a chance 🥹💜

[fbwzoo]

Gotcha day lick mat 🥰 We've had my little gremlin girl for TWO YEARS!!!! I am constantly amazed at how far she's come. Here's the obligatory long, rambling progress post. 😂

In the past year, Emma has stopped taking her anxiety medication, started having visitors to the house again, become ever more enthusiastic about training time, gotten increasingly opinionated, and also gotten SO much cuddlier. 💜

The only time she's fear panted had been with vet visits - and only occasional shaking periods. I think those have only happened during fireworks or big storms, maybe a time or two with people over. She's been so brave with visitors & gone up to sniff new people, even taken treats from them too! Honestly, having friends over again has gone even better than I expected - I really think the nice long time to settle in with us before helped with that.

It's a huge joy to watch how interested & excited Emma gets with enrichment & training - even brand new things are less scary, bc she's learned to expect good things from us, even if it's new. She's more confident with other family members besides me now too - Jack gets snuggles nearly as much, she tried new enrichment with just him there last earlier this week, and she'll stomp on Arte when excited for dinner. 😂 While Joel is still bottom of the list for her, she's much more comfortable with him & has even cuddled him a time or two!

One other interesting development has been her resilience to not being babied so much. I can scold her, I can hold her back from lunging at a cat, I can tell her no cuddles & shoo her back if I need to, and her feelings don't really get hurt the same way Spring's do. She'll pout some, but no shaking, no major upset, etc. She's really become a bit more independent from me over the past year! Only a bit 😂 but hey, progress!

And finally before I shut up, her reactivity has really improved as well! She's much more tolerant of the cats cuddling me, even Shilo. She handled the new kitten addition pretty well, and her food guarding has improved some too. She often still needs the extra reassurance of my presence to relax & enjoy a high value chew or enrichment, but then she's fine.

I'll shut up now, but I'm SO fucking proud of my baby dog. She's so brave, so funny, and so loving. I can't wait to see where the next year takes us. 💙💜

[queerpyracy]

information that i absolutely did not retain from previous readings of frankenstein is that victor is in like a manic state destroying his health for two whole years building the creature and nobody around him at university notices a problem

[thetreeturnedoff]

oh my god my friend is getting me into danganronpa oh no

[jackieswift]

Thank you @taylorswift for being the big sister I never had. You’ve given me memories for life and I’m forever grateful for that. Two years ago today I had the best day of my entire life. I remember telling you that and you were so happy you could give me a day like that, that I had traveled all the way from India for you and thankful for my love and support. The words you said to me that day changed my life and maybe you knew that even before saying it to me since you read my blog and therefore might have understood that hearing it from you would make me listen and truly hear it. I love you buddy 💕🥰✨

[hackstronaut]

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[lorelune]

practicing driving this weekend 😎