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Nicole Wilde | Wed, 07/29/2009 - 12:32
One of the catch-up projects I’ve been working on this month is downloading footage from my video camera to my computer so it can be edited and preserved on DVD. This isn’t just any footage; it features my dogs, wolves, and wolfdogs who are no longer with us. As some of you know, I lost Mojo (my soul dog), Phantom (my soul wolf) and Heyoka (beloved high content wolfdog) all in the past year. So the video project has been a heartwarming yet difficult one.
Strangely, not all of the heartstring-tugging is due to seeing my fur-kids romping, playing, and being their wonderful selves. Some of it comes from watching sequences where I was training Mojo, and Soko, my German Shepherd (who passed over three years ago) was standing there watching, waiting, and wanting to be involved. Soko was always a brilliant dog. She knew sit, stay, down, and come by the age of seven weeks. She was a star training pupil, so long as she wasn’t frightened by anything in the environment. Soko had lifelong fear and anxiety issues, whereas Mojo was mellow and charismatic—a rock star of dogdom. Guess which one my husband and I favored. And there it is, the evidence caught in frame after frame—me showing off Mojo’s tricks, clicker training him, praising and treating him, and all the while Soko looking left out. In one scene I even ordered her out of the room. Okay, I’m making it sound worse than it was. It’s not like she didn’t get time with mom, and believe me, that dog had a great life filled with lots of affection and attention. Still, I feel badly that I so obviously favored Mojo over her.
We all play favorites. Dog trainers sometimes have to remind ourselves to use each dog in the class for demos rather than just the few we like best. Owners sometimes tend to give one dog a lot more attention than another, especially when bringing a new dog home. I don’t know to what extent dogs feel sad or stressed about being left out or shunned, but of course they do, just like kids who know deep down that their sibling is the real favorite. So love your fur-kids and make them feel special—all of them—while they’re here to appreciate it.
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