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This handsome guy. 🥰❤️

Bobby is seven months old now and fully in troublesome adolescent mode, but even that with him is relatively easy. I feel so lucky every day to have such a sweet companion.

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#BobbyTheDog working on his Pit sit.

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A brown pitbull with a white belly and white paws sitting on a grey couch. There is a fuzzy, purple blanket on the couch cushions and a white and green pillow in the corner. The dog is a six month old puppy, sitting back on his haunches with his back legs outstretched forward, like a human sitting on their butt.

It sucks when it's too cold for Bobby and I to take long sniff walks outside. My fingers keep freezing up right away when we go out, so I know it's gotta be too cold on his little toe beans. But without enough outside time he gets bored, and bored puppies are naughty.

#dogs #puppies #BobbyTheDog

Yesterday we were visiting the neighbor and her three border collies. Of course they have perfect recall and the one who wanted to play fetch could be instructed to "fetch it up nice" and hand the human the stick.

Meanwhile, Bobby was eating mud, wandering into their yard and ignoring my calls, and at one point ran wildly right into a log causing him to somersault over it. 🤦‍♂️

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So grateful for this sweet soul who provides me so much joy and contentment.

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A dark brindle pitbull with a white chest and paws, sitting in front of a field of tall, dried grasses. He is wearing a black colar with tags and staring beyond the camera. In the background there is a blue sky and a few fir trees.

"You can't be amped on the couch, man. The couch is a chill place."

Things I say to #BobbyTheDog that make me sound like more of a stoner than I am.

I got the Embark DNA test results back for #BobbyTheDog and it turns out my pittie mix is ...

A pittie mix.

#dogs #pitbull

#BobbyTheDog made some new friends on our neighborhood wander this morning.

#cows #dogs

Two cows, one black and one red, behind a chain link fence, sniffing at a brown dog on the other side of the fence. The dog is sniffing back at the cows, with neck outstretched. The red cow is licking its nose. The background is a foggy field with fir trees.

Two cows, one black and one red, standing in a field behind a chain link fence. They are wet with rain, and standing close to the fence, looking at the camera. The background is a forested pasture with grass and fir trees.

The inside isn't finished, but it's still super cozy in the cottage!

This picture was from a couple weeks ago and I can't believe how much Bobby has grown in that short time. 😭 [sobbing emoji]

#HockenberryCottage #BobbyTheDog

The inside corner of a tiny cottage. The walls are unfinished wood. The floor is finished wood with a large, crocheted rag rug covering it. There is a wine colored velvet chair in the corner with a medium sized puppy wearing a sweater sitting in it, and a blanket draped across the back. A guitar is hung on the wall above the chair, as well as a painting of two bear heads coming out of the water. There are windows on either side of the corner with potted plants in them, and a Buddha statue on the windowsil to the right. A white shelf is above the window to the left. To the right of the chair is a small electric fireplace topped with a salt lamp and a binocular case.

My coparent watched him for a bit for me so I could use the chainsaw, and he was not happy about being without his emotional support human. He led coparent to my cottage and put himself to bed to wait for me. 😅 [laughing emoji]

Now I'm in the puppy version of nap jail with my 40lb lap dog. 🥰 [happy emoji with hearts]

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Nic sitting on a couch with a large, brindle puppy stretched across their lap and pinning their arm. They are wearing a black shirt, black pants, and big, fuzzy, blue socks.

Poor Bobby. He doesn't have access to the big cat bed because he tore a hole in it that I need to patch, so he was forced to squeeze into the small one. Such a hard life he has.

#BobbyTheDog #pitbull #puppy #SillyDog #dogs

A brown and orange brindle dog curled tightly into a ball, laying in a small, blue cat bed. The side walls of the bed are bowed out with his size being too big. The picture is taken from above looking down, and he is peeking up at the camera without lifting his head.

My heart tracker watch used to fairly regularly notify me of "high stress", but I'm not sure that it's done that at all since getting #BobbyTheDog.

I let #BobbyTheDog eat the eggs he broke yesterday since I didn't want them to go to waste. What a mistake. He's fine, but my well insulated tiny cottage is filled with a huge cloud of noxious dog gas.

Update: #BobbyTheDog pulled down the carton and broke all five of these eggs.

Can you see what #BobbyTheDog is looking at? There are at least five of them in the picture.

#DogsOfMastodon #dogs #pnw #deer

A thick Pacific Northwest forest. A dog's head is in the foreground, seen from the back. He is looking toward a patch of trees. Deer are obscured in the trees, roughly 30 feet in front of the dog.

Omg, I found the most adorable little #cat door to put on my coparent's bedroom door to keep #BobbyTheDog out. (He desperately wants to be friends and play, but they are less enthusiastic.)

A small 9" tall door in the style of a curved top human door, designed for a cat. It is in its packaging box on the floor of a kitchen, and a pitbull puppy sits next to it.

Not gay as in happy, but #queer as in wearing matching #Carhartt with my #dog while we wander in our #forest. And also fuck the police. And also happy.

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