Hi there! My mom and I are doing something different with
our blog. She has given me full control over it and told me to have a good
time. My name is Shannon and I'm going to be sharing some stories about our
ridiculous, funny, adorable, and loving dog named Oscar. He is 100 pounds of
pure fun, and there have been many times we have laughed at his expense.
Oscar is a 1½ year old purebred Rottweiler. We got him a
couple of months ago, and he was pretty mental. He had been given up because
his previous owners had to move into a smaller house and couldn’t take him with
them. Because of his experience, he had pretty bad separation anxiety, and it took a couple weeks to break him in so we could leave him alone. Now he is pure crazy, and
totally comfortable in our house.
This summer introduced many new things for Oscar, and us.
Our older Rottweiler, Milo, never swam, so we thought Oscar would be the same.
Boy, were we wrong. At first, he would only go to the first step and try to
herd anyone in the pool towards him because he didn’t like people in the pool.
Eventually he got to the second step and so forth, until he would swim a little
bit around (sometimes after being pushed in...). Now he is fine with the pool
and jumps in a lot. We like to take his toy and throw it back and forth around
the pool to wear him out so he calms down when we get inside. The pool isn’t
always a good thing, though. He gets kind of crazy when certain people are in
the pool (like little kids and such) because he doesn’t want them to drown, so when my little sister has friends over, he isn’t allowed outside.
Sometimes it gets really annoying, but at the same time it’s kind of nice to
think that he would protect you if it came to it.
But Oscar isn’t always crazy. When he does calm down he
turns into a perfect snuggle buddy. He rests his head on you and stares up at
you in a cute “puppy dog” look – which is gross because he is very slobbery. We
think Oscar thinks he’s a lap dog, because he enjoys sitting on you. It’s
pretty amusing, though, when you have a friend over and he just sits on her lap like it's nothing.If you are an animal lover, you are bound to enjoy his stories. We have some happy ones, sad ones and funny ones. Every day is a journey with this gentle giant, and I can't wait to share them with everyone.
