The dog with no trust

Tanaya, taken from a pretty far distance, with a very nice camera.
She really wanted the food.

I want to introduce you all to Tanaya. She's a beautiful little cream doxie with just stunning color. Tanaya is not my dog, but I decided to do a blog about her for a few reasons. Tanaya doesn't trust, although she is not mine I have lived with her for about 4 or 5 months, and she still barely looks at me. I know the situation (or at least from what I could tell) that Tanaya came from was a wonderful home, but I believe the problem was she only had to deal with one person, and being in a new place after flying simply terrified her. I've been trying now, the entire time I've lived with her, to win over her trust. I've tried bribing her with food & toys, keeping her in my bedroom and spending time with her, anything you can imagine. She has got to the point that if she is in an enclosed area (with no way of escaping) she will CONSIDER coming and sitting by me so I may pet her, of course on the terms that I don't look at her. Same goes for food, if the reward is good enough and I don't look at her (or even in her direction) she'll consider taking it from me, though she prefers not to take it out of my hand, she will if the reward is good enough. She seems to be curious, but too fearful to actually let her curiosity get the better of her. She's extremely intelligent and it shows, if there is any possible way to escape a situation where she caught me glance at her even, she WILL figure it out. Keep in mind I have never done anything to harm or scare this dog. But, the key is to keep trying, although it is extremely frustrating, living with a dog that you can't even look at, you can't give up.

How bad do you want it?

Once again things have been going crazy, I've ended up placing both Audi and Cowboy. Both are doing extremely well and the families love the dogs. Of course, anyone who has placed a dog in a new home understands how heartbreaking it is. But that's not what this blog is about today, this blog is about passion, about all the things that you'll never be able to figure out using logic. Some people don't understand why I do the things I do, why I focus my life around my dogs, why I do anything and everything to make them happy. Vixy had a seizure early Sunday morning, I almost lost my best friend. I was terrified, but now I see everything in a new light. I realize that no matter what life throws at us we can triumph anything, me and my dogs. In this life people constantly seem to tell me only the strong survive, it's evolution right? But life isn't all about the strong, us underdogs, the ones that have come from behind, realize that all life takes is passion. Sometimes we lose ourselves, trying to solve every little problem, trying to make sense of everything, trying to make sense of life, but in life, things don't always add up. We have to learn that we can't question everything that sometimes we just have to accept something as it is. We have to welcome it into our lives. Not everything is about logic. I've always been the person to ask "What if?" I asked myself on Sunday morning "What if I had just lost her? What if she had died?" and then I looked at her and I realized, the 'what if's' aren't important. They aren't reality, it's not what happened, so now I find myself in situations (even within these past few days) where I'll be about to question something and I just say to myself "No what if's this time, just accept it, just do it, you're strong enough". When I look at life, when I think passion, when I think about anything I love, there's always that one question that anybody should ask themselves "How bad do I really want it?" That's how I look at the things I love, how can you ever get better if you have no kind of passion for it, if you have no desire to become better, without that desire, that passion, you'll never become better, you'll never be all that you can be. When I think about my dreams, my goals, everything I want for myself in the future, I know that if I want it bad enough, if I have enough passion, I can have and do anything I want. When you see someone who has failed to achieve their goals, their dreams, just remember that they could have it, just like you can, they just didn't want it bad enough. So don't waste time complaining, whining that you can't do it, because you can do it, you can do anything you want to do, of course in life there will always be consequences but all you need to ask yourself is how bad you want it.