{"id":1924,"date":"2013-03-25T03:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2013-03-27T21:05:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T21:05:34","slug":"tasha-takes-her-first-husky-pack-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/?p=1924","title":{"rendered":"Tasha takes her first Husky pack walk"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Pit Bull<\/a> went on\u00a0her husky pack walk<\/a>, she had no idea that she wasn’t a husky.\"photo<\/a><\/p>\n

Today Chankla and Tasha<\/a> FINALLY went on their first husky pack walk.\u00a0Like Pit Bull, it\u00a0didn’t really seem to phase Chankla that she was surrounded by huskies.\u00a0\u00a0Unlike Pit Bull,\u00a0Chankla sports a few husky traits like a curly tail, mascara eyes, the trademark Eddie Munster\u00a0forehead\u00a0 – she could be part husky in there somewhere. It made me wonder\u00a0as we were standing in the middle of doggie happy hour, did Tasha know that these were her people? Do dogs know? Do they care?<\/p>\n

\"photo\"<\/p>\n

People will pick spouses that share similar facial features, they pick people that look like themselves. There is an evolutionary biological\u00a0function in this choice. Is there any attraction for dogs when they see their own breed? So many useless questions…it’s why I don’t tweet.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_5083\"<\/a><\/p>\n

When we arrived, all the dogs just stood around until they relaxed. All the standing around made Tasha very nervous. She was curious and interested and not fearful but from the anticipation of it all. Her poor little back legs were shaking like leaves., but she eventually got the hang of it. \u00a0Once\u00a0all the dogs\u00a0got acclimated to each other, we took off on our walk.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_5084.e\"<\/p>\n

Tasha did great. The pack walk really helped habituate her to people and dogs in her personal space. Nelson walked Tasha for a while as part of his pack. She looked right at home in the pack.<\/p>\n

It makes me very emotional to think what could have happened to\u00a0Tasha without the love and support of people like Nelson<\/a> and Dr May<\/a>.\u00a0 It was less than\u00a05 months ago that she was totally feral and so wild\u00a0 that she\u00a0could not be touched or caught. I am so\u00a0 joyful\u00a0in my heart to see Tasha reach this milestone in her new life as a domesticated dog. We still have a long way to go for her to look like a normal house dog, but these pack walks are a very helpful tool to getting Tasha to her goal.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_5075e\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The pack walks are\u00a0a great way to exercise the dogs both physically and mentally. The dogs have a great time being dogs. \u00a0Nelson<\/a> does a fabulous job guiding all the participants and their dogs so that everyone learns great socialization and behavioral tips while having a big time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Pit Bull went on\u00a0her husky pack walk, she had no idea that she wasn’t a husky. Today Chankla and Tasha FINALLY went on their first husky pack walk.\u00a0Like Pit Bull, it\u00a0didn’t really seem to phase Chankla that she was surrounded by huskies.\u00a0\u00a0Unlike Pit Bull,\u00a0Chankla sports a few husky traits like a curly tail, mascara eyes, the trademark Eddie Munster\u00a0forehead\u00a0 – she could be part husky in there somewhere. It made me wonder\u00a0as we were standing in the middle of doggie happy hour, did Tasha know that these were her people? Do dogs know? Do they care? People will pick spouses that share similar facial features, they pick people that look like themselves. There is an evolutionary biological\u00a0function in this choice. Is there any attraction for dogs when they see their own breed? So many useless questions…it’s why I don’t tweet. When we arrived, all the dogs just stood around until they relaxed. All the standing around made Tasha very nervous. She was curious and interested and not fearful but from the anticipation of it all. Her poor little back legs were shaking like leaves., but she eventually got the hang of it. \u00a0Once\u00a0all the dogs\u00a0got acclimated to each other, we took off on our walk. Tasha did great. The pack walk really helped habituate her to people and dogs in her personal space. Nelson walked Tasha for a while as part of his pack. She looked right at home in the pack. It makes me very emotional to think what could have happened to\u00a0Tasha without the love and support of people like Nelson and Dr May.\u00a0 It was less than\u00a05 months ago that she was totally feral and so wild\u00a0 that she\u00a0could not be touched or caught. I am so\u00a0 joyful\u00a0in my heart to see Tasha reach this milestone in her new life as a domesticated dog. We still have a long way to go for her to look like a normal house dog, but these pack walks are a very helpful tool to getting Tasha to her goal. The pack walks are\u00a0a great way to exercise the dogs both physically and mentally. The dogs have a great time being dogs. \u00a0Nelson does a fabulous job guiding all the participants and their dogs so that everyone learns great socialization and behavioral tips while having a big time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-1","category-this-that","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_5083.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1970,"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions\/1970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}