EEEEEEEK!

Amber at 5-1/2 months

Amber is over 52 pounds now, almost 6 months old, but she is not showing any signs of being a brave dog yet.

Yesterday was particularly traumatic.

First she met this –

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Picture – if you are able – a large dog almost putting her nose on the baby frog my husband was showing her – and then large dog leaping backwards. She sneaked up on the frog again, almost putting her nose on it, then leaped up and backwards again, with a bark. Then came dancing around, whining. My husband started to show it to her again, and she was leaping backwards again. Mean, scary frog!

Then she met this on one of our walks –

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A turtle similar to this one was on the sidewalk in the yard in the front of the house. Amber went right over to it, but leaped back in fear when the turtle had the audacity to move. Amber leaped backward, coming over to me. “Save me, Mom!”  She wouldn’t go near it again.

To cap off her day, she faced this –

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Amber wanted to be with my husband, but he was going up and down the stairs to our basement. We tried to entice her to come down the stairs, offering a treat, but she would barely stick her head around the corner, much less even CONSIDER coming down to us.

She finished off her day with a small bite of the burgers we were grilling, some ice cubes from my husband’s drink, a ‘mad dog’ run in the yard, and then bed.

Whew! Such a challenging day for our ‘baby’ dog!