Holly's Holiday ... Day 11

When I first met Felix I was pretty sure that we could never be friends. Has that ever happened to you? You meet someone and you think... This is definitely not my kind of dog.
After all he wasn't very friendly and he seemed to have  a lot of issues... One day he even stole my treat. Wendy had us all lined up practicing the "wait for the cookie trick" and when she said go, Felix grabbed both his cookie and mine and took off out of the room. Plus whenever I was sitting on someone's lap, he would try to squeeze past me to claim the lap.  I am thinking this must happen in people packs too...  People wanting the pack leader to like them the best and give them the most treats... 

Well ...a funny thing happened....  the more I have gotten to know Felix the more I like him! You see I realized that underneath his issues, he is a lot like me. He just wants to be loved. Once I started to understand this, I began to move closer towards him, instead of away from him and strangely many of his issues disappeared.  I think I should tell Duane and Tamara about this... I bet this would work in their people pack too. I  am calling my strategy "do unto other dogs, as you would have them do unto you" ... I think I might have heard something like that somewhere... another one I though of is "puppy love drives out issues"... Boy I bet Duane and Tammara are going to be proud of me learning all this cool stuff.... Have a great day... And try and love someone with issues! Holly