Hello friends,
I hope you are well and that you are slowly entering the magic of the holidays🎅🏻🤶🏻 ( I love this period full of stars in the eyes of the little wolves 🤩). The list is made for us, the decorations are done, and we’re already well into the advent calendar🎄.
This summer, we made a life-changing decision for the next 10/15 years: we got a dog again, a husky! 🐕. Indeed it was a no-brainer when I saw the look on my daughter’s face when she was with the husky babies from the TANWEN pack 🥰🥰🥰🥰( link to their website).
To explain the situation:
-My son has been allergic to dogs for several years, so we were unable to get another one after the death of our labrador over seven years ago. But it’s been several months that we see that he wants to have one anyway.
-My big Aspergirl has for restricted interest the huskies. She dreams for months to have one and imagines herself with this dog when she is an adult.🥰🐶
This summer, she went with my husband to do a “dog symbiosis” day at the pack: walk and dog care! And they surprised her by showing her the 2/3 week-old litter of puppies! It was love at first sight 😍😍… But we had to think about it because they are special dogs that require a lot of physical activity and behave close to the cat (for example: need to be alone, can’t learn the “bed-not-move,” don’t bring back the toys,…). And especially that our son passes the allergy test🤧🤔. So, he went to the pack after taking his medication (a minimum of safety 😏): he petted, hugged the dogs and even got licked and… NO CARE!!! 🥳🥳
So it was off to the “huskiesque” adventure.🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕
Until we got Lou back, our little husky dog, the kids were asking questions every day: how will we take care of her, who will take her out….??? And our Aspergirl was both excited and anxious: it was not yet concrete, it was going to change our routine and hers, but at the same time, her dream was coming true. Our little guy was just excited!
The morning we went to pick her up, the excitement was at its peak…Once we left with her: we were all happy, but we had a hard time realizing, and we realized that she was going to change our routine: a source of anguish😰 for all of us!
The first days were intense because she had to get used to us, we had to get used to her and most of all we had to change our routine: we couldn’t leave her alone so in the evening at first we stayed with her!
But as the weeks went by, she got used to it, we did too, and now, at four and a half months old, she stays a bit alone at night when she wants to go to bed…but we have to be in the house!😉.
In the beginning, some days, the kids had a hard time telling themselves that “it was true, that she is here with us”… Even we felt the same way sometimes!
Our son immediately became addicted to Lou: they play together, cuddle, she licks him🐶🐶 but she plays with him as she would with one of her brothers, or a dog buddy…so we are trying, still, to teach our son to manage her because otherwise she dominates him and gets on him ( huskies are very receptive to hierarchy…they live in packs even if the group is made of humans 😜).
As she is bigger, our daughter has fewer worries on that side, but she is a bit “gauche” with Lou and is quickly drunk with her young puppy excitement!🤯🙄😜. But she loves it, always asks us about it when she’s at college (even a picture some days 🤪). We think she’s a little confused sometimes about her primal wolf-dog reactions! (It’s occasionally confusing 😏). But the older they get, the more manageable and fluid the relationship will be!
As for us parents, she has changed our daily routine (a walk with me in the morning and one in the evening with my husband, and my husband manages the weekend walks). Of course, some days are crazier than others ( she got intoxicated with cannabis, so go to emergency vet one night 🥺but no worries, just a bad trip😶🌫️!). Still, we are glad to have her in our family! We air out because of her and forget about the complexity of our present life thanks to her!😔🤩🤩.
She really, and still today, brought us a lot: we feel that she is doing good to the children and us too!
-💖My big one is getting more and more confident: managing an animal is a big responsibility ( keep it for a few long minutes, give food…). But, as my daughter is capable, it strengthens her self-esteem.
💙My son has a new best friend: his dog! He has a great time with her. You can tell that her presence makes him feel good! He can’t wait to have her back every night! Even if she eats his toys a little 🤪. Plus, she helps him with his allergies.
-💙💖We parents, she got us back in shape, forces us to move, oxygenate us! It feels so good. And while we spend time taking care of her, we think of something else than 🦠🦠🦠🦠. And then she is so lovely, makes a lot of cuddles… So we take full advantage of it, and it is good for the morale!
You changed our life, and we thank him for it! 🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶 🐶
And do you have a pet? Does it help your atypical child or children or yourself?
You can tell me your experience, your feeling in a comment or even in private message!🥰
1…2…3…Let’s share!!!!😊😊😊😊
