For a long time, although Enzo would be happy to see me arrive home, wiggling and wagging his tail a safe distance away, he was too cautious to approach, or if he did so, it was very carefully and briefly, no petting allowed. Look at him now!
We’ve been gone for a while on a road trip. Our two resident dogs went with us, while the fosters stayed home. Now that we’re back, they are often all in my office with me: foster Domingo (sleeping), Bisou (performing personal maintenance), Luca (also sleeping), and foster Enzo (who has lived with us long enough…
Though Enzo likes to be near us, he isn’t a snuggly dog. But sometimes in the morning he will make an exception. Very early this morning, he jumped up on the bed when invited for his morning greeting with scratches and rubs, then settled down to stay for a while, snuggled up against me through…
Since Enzo was originally a street dog, I expected he would want to spend a lot of time outside. As it’s turned out, however, he prefers to be indoors. Pretty much goes out, does his business, and is ready to come back in. Perhaps he is thinking, “Did that living-outside thing. It wasn’t that great….
I’ve written before about how it’s the dogs’ jobs to clean up plates and bowls. Enzo has long since learned to lick plates placed on the floor, and now anticipates them eagerly. That’s fine after dinner, but at breakfast or lunch there is often only one item to lick. So what I do is offer…
Enzo now eagerly jumps on the bed, under certain conditions: I am the only person on it, and he thinks he can get to his favorite spot up near the pillows without upsetting one of the other dogs; or when I am getting up, say from reading, and he’s excited because he thinks something might…
It turns out that Enzo is mostly Chow, with a dash of Australian Cattle Dog and 13 more breeds. Or in other words, half Chow and half Heinz 57 mutt. That he had some Chow in him was obvious, but I didn’t expect it to be that much!
Not a good photo but the milestone is too good to pass up. Enzo has made the sofa his daytime spot for several months now. But he less often lies there if other people are in the room, and never if someone else is on the sofa. A couple of days ago, to Edith’s surprise,…