School Is Good For The Dog

Hanging out with Mochi, a four-year-old Shiba-ken.

It's definitely beneficial for Choya to be swimming again. She loves water and can swim fine on her own. Swimming is a great exercise to strengthen her muscles and tissues. Managing her patella luxation and pre-empting all sorts of potential health issues are always on the top of my mind. I hope future COVID-19 closures don't disrupt her school again. It's always very nice for the school to send me different photos of her each week. They really take loads of effort to get photos from different angles to send to the pawrents. Awwwww. 

I pack a full lunch box for Choya to take to school weekly. She does need a mid-day meal. Even if she doesn't fully eat it, a bite or two would be fine. Although she won't starve if she refuses to eat. Except for the first week, her handlers said that she has been eating it. Whewww. I was worried about her food aggression and not wanting to eat with other dogs around. Her handlers knew and took care to watch her too. They said she seemed fine so far.

With the extra exercise, she comes home hungry in the late afternoons, and she has been asking for an early dinner each week. Hahaha. That's a good thing, considering how fussy she is about eating only when she's hungry enough. Then it's nap-time because she's exhausted. She falls asleep in seconds. She'll be out like a light sprawled on the floor. After an hour or so, the floor either gets too cold or too hard. Then she'll clamber onto her bed in the living room, and falls back asleep in seconds. She likes her little bed where she could curl up or roll around and get really comfortable. This little bed nestled between our armchairs is perfect since it's close enough to us but she still gets her own space.