So Jade has acquired many nicknames by myself as well as friends and family. To name a few: JJ, JJ Bean, Beans, the beanie baby & Beaner. They seem to get sillier and sillier as time goes on but she totally loves them. When you get all excited and say them in that ridiculously high pitched female voice and talk to her like a baby she goes nuts for it! haha Crazy dog people eh?
Jade is also absolutely in love with the people she remembers now. Friends and family that spend a lot of time with her love her of course but she is really starting to love them as well. When she sees people she recognizes she gets so excited...its very cute.
My sister, or Auntie Lindsay to Jade, has also taught my little munchkin a new trick! Jade can now successfully crawl!! We have even fine tuned it so we don't need a treat to get her to do it. Smart cookie she is. It amazes me how quickly she learns.
A really good friend of mine also just adopted a rescue dog named Digby. He is soooo cute!!!!! Just a little ball of love that you want to cuddle all the time. So she started coming to the dog park after work with Digby as well and he is starting to really enjoy it. Of course just like Jade the first few times he was a bit overwhelmed but he is so much more confident just in a weeks time and is so cute as he plays a little bit more every time. Jade is really loving the park nowadays, she tries to entice the littlest dogs to play with her even with they are absolutely terrified of even their own shadows. I will have to video it some time as it is really adorable.
In training news Jade and I have been working REALLY hard on recall and she is slowly but sure improving. Stubborn like nobody's business when she wants to be but we are getting there. Jade is also getting much more comfortable staying with friends or family without me now. My sister has been taking her a few hours during the day to give me a break at the office and get Jade some exercise during the day and she is listening to her really well and not crying when I leave anymore.
I will definitely say that adopting a dog, especially in a case where you don't really know their history has its challenges, but man is it rewarding as well. Lastly I have included a cute little picture of Jade's new favorite past time. She now jumps up on the bed and watches people on the street through the window...My little guard dog! haha
