Aside from people telling us time and again what a great looking dog Nande is, we consider ourselves all the luckier for who she is as well as how she looks.
As the last five or six months with her have progressed we've been treated to her puppy antics that literally make us fall over laughing. She's a sweet, naive and playful little dog that has no sense of self preservation at all and thinks that all dogs want to be her best friend.
She hasn't quite grasped the fact that some people raise their dogs to be mean and aggressive. The look of confusion on her face is pretty priceless when she sees a dog that's obviously more interested in fighting than playing. But most of the dogs she meets are more or less like her, curious about the new dog and generally open to a little sniffing of the butts and some playtime. Nande is usually a little too rambunctious (now there's a word that needs to get used more often!) for the other pup and they eventually go and hide behind their owner. In retrospect, perhaps it wasn't the best idea to get her used to playing with the two big boy dogs at such a young age.
But one of the most fun and funny aspects of Nande is her love of all things water. If it involves water then she is automatically good to go. If I'm taking a shower and the door is cracked, she'll try to push it open so she can jump in and join me. She also likes to lick our legs when we get out of the shower to get some water and because she's just a stone cold freak! She follows me around the house when I water the plants because she is pretty sure we're going outside to water out there as well.
And when the hose comes out, she goes crazy. As in, she'll sprint around the yard chasing the water until she can't stand anymore. Spray her in the face and she chomps her jaws while her tail wags. She leaps across the stream, barks at me when I don't give her the juice enough and generally just has a blast playing in the water. Its hilarious to watch her chase the jet stream of water coming out of the end and I might just shoot a little video of it sometime to share.
Contrast Nande with Modoc who is the polar opposite of Nande in terms of enjoyment of water. Modoc used to refuse to go outside when it was raining and, once or twice, wouldn't go out when it HAD been raining and the ground was wet. He cowers and runs away if you even pick up a hose when he's around. He'll play in the surf but only up to about two or three inches. To go swimming he has to be picked up and carried out past the breaking waves. And its apparent from how his little stumpy tail points straight down that he's not enjoying it much. But he does like to play in the surf if Nande and/or Brady and Cinder are around. He's fine if he's distracted by the other dogs. Brady's better but still doesn't care for the after-beach hose off session that Nande relishes with such obvious glee.
Heck, Nande has even come to love the after hose time rub down with the towel to dry her off some! But she's still a puppy, that much is easily apparent by watching her entertain herself with a black pot that had been emptied, she'll chase it around the yard only to bite it and then fling it away again. Or her mad charges around the living some nights when she's just got to get her ya-yas out! Sometimes its a little much, especially with the baby boy but most of the time, she makes us laugh and has a wonderful time too.
I'll try to get some new Nande pics posted as there have been some really nice ones lately. And I'm working on a Graydon gallery so that aunts and uncles and other friends can have an easy place to see all the pics of the beautiful little boy.
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