Time to start blogging again. Obviously, I didn’t stick to my resolution, which, as you see, resulted in absolutely nothing from me. I have been writing more. I actually have a short story in the works, which I swear will be published before the year is out. Actually, it should be published before April if I am being honest with myself. I just need to be editing it. Anyway, keep an eye out for that. I don’t have a title yet tho, so we will definitely see where it goes.
Today I don’t have too much going on. I did walk the dog for about a mile today, so that is really good. I have learned a lot since starting my dog journey, and that is a good thing. My parents started out with their dogs and it seemed like everything was easy with them. For me… not so much. Some of it is I have a trickier dog, some of it is parts of my life make my dog more dependent, and some of it are things that I did wrong (not crate training is a big example). Another is free feeding. I have never had a dog that wouldn’t eat, and as I was living on my own with no other pets to consume the uneaten food, I saw no reason not to free feed. I mean, that was the only way I could get him to eat anyway.
News flash: bad idea. I started with a food unmotivated dog, and I just wrecked his food drive. Free feeding was about the worst thing I could have done in that situation. The sad thing is, I even asked a vet. I knew I was doing something wrong, so I went to a person in charge to ask them if it was okay. They said it was fine as long as he was eating.
Nope. Don’t do it, folks. Don’t free feed. It isn’t worth it.