This little puppy of ours is sprouting like a weed. She'll be 4 months in a less than 2 weeks, and at her last vet visit she weighed in at 33 pounds. Nala gets a kick out of visiting the vet. Heck, with all those people wanting to pet her, I wouldn't mind either if I was a dog. More booster shots and her rabies vaccine yesterday and she didn't even notice the needles. The bordetella vaccine she got intranasally made her stop and pause for a bit though.
She's definitely a lot taller now. Training her is getting to be a bit of a challenge. She seems to be getting to that age where she wants to try to rearrange the pecking order and challenge our rank above her. She's been testing us a lot more, so lately we've had to be a lot more stern when giving her commands. I'll be glad when we can get her into some obedience classes and get a little bit of professional help and advice with training.
Going for walks can be a trip now that it's getting warmer. Being a black dog, staying out in the sun can be a bit of a problem heat wise. But she's figured out that the darker shady areas are nice and cool to walk in. So when we're out for walks, she makes beelines for the nearest shady area and slows down her walking. When she's back out in the sun, her pace picks up towards the next shady spot she can see. It goes back and forth like this until the walk is done. Once we get within sight of our apartment building, the pace really picks up and if she's got the energy left, sometimes we'll break out into a run. And then back upstairs into a cool air-conditioned apartment and a big long slurpy drippy drink of water.
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