02/21/2024
Here's how I started to not hate, hate, double hate, taking my wild AF dog out in public:
🛑 Before we jump in the deep end together, I need you to know something first...
👉 Your feelings about your dog, their shenanigans, and behavior are 100% valid, and we have allllll been there.
⚡️You are still a fanf**kintastic dog mom!⚡️
*pinky promise*
Got it?
Coolio - let's get into it...
Once upon a time, I was a wee baby dog trainer in-training and knew jack s**t about the more challenging, "what in the actual f**k?!" behaviors.
Whenever my dog was freaking-the-freak out by barking, lunging, and generally being a MFn menace to society, at every.GD.dog they saw, the same thing ALWAYS happened...
🎯The heat from the depths of hell shot directly from Satan's undersac, up into my feet, WHOOSHED straight to my head, and flashed a bright neon freakin sign across my face that shrieked, "EMBARRASSED BITCH HERE!"
🎯My posture shrank faster than your clothes after your spouse or kiddo "helped" w/ laundry.
🎯I channeled my family's looooong military history, pulled an immediate about face, and slunk home in absolute defeat, with a mega helping of despair & self-pity.
This was my reality until one glorious, eye-opening, magical AF experience...
What had happened was - I saw a woman whose dog was losing their MFn medulla, and she just calmly, casually and CONFIDENTLY kept walking.
↪️ The world didn't stop spinning on its axis. Neighbors didn't come out in droves to ridicule her. Nobody caused a scene.
🤯The hair on my arms and back of my neck stood on end. It felt like this woman, a stranger, had just whispered the secret to life in my ear.
That's when ERRYTHING changed.
Instead of worrying about what people *might* think/say about me/my dog, I flipped the whooooole MFn script!
💥I gave ZERO f***s about how me/my dog were perceived by society.
See, I had pit bulls, so I already had an IDGAF attitude and thick skin on lock, I just had to apply that s**t to EVERY aspect of my life with dogs.
So - on a scale of 1-10, rate your willingness to make the same mindset shift in order to start enjoying life w/your difficult dog again.
