Doggie Breakthrough!
So for a couple months now I’ve been giving Kona an occasional bath in our bathtub. Doesn’t sound difficult, right? Well it is when your dog has an abnormal fear of the bathroom! Every time she needs a bath, it is a long process of me trying to coax her into the bathroom with treats, finally ending in me chasing her down, picking her up and putting her in the tub and sustaining a number of scratches as she freaks out and tries to escape. After a couple minutes in the tub she realizes that everything is ok and calms down, but that first 30 minutes beforehand is very, very trying.
Today we had a breakthrough! She followed me into the bathroom after only a couple minutes of prodding, and for some reason I decided to climb into the tub myself and try to then coax her into climbing into the tub on her own. Imagine my astonishment (really, seriously I was astonished) when she actually put her front paws onto the rim of the tub and jumped into the bathtub! It was amazing, and I felt like she had some breakthrough in her insane fear of the bathroom.
When you work from home and the majority of your social interaction during the day is with your dog, the smallest things make you really excited. At least I’m not a crazy cat lady, though.
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that only makes sense to me
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