When you have a very smart, VERY high energy dog with jaws that can lay waste to everything you hold dear, you keep a pocket of tricks on hand for when he's having a rough time keeping it calm. Sometimes that's training and mental stimulation. Sometimes that's a really long walk.
Sometimes it's a $3 purple towel from goodwill. #SqueakyPete
My week got off to a tough start, so my wife, god love her, sent me this picture of #SqueakyPete right after we found him. Look at his goddamn face, I implore you. Now he gets to be big and stupid and everybody* loves him so much.
*everybody who is not a cat or some class of rodent
#SqueakyPete was super scared of the big storm outside, so I gave him a muscle relaxer wrapped in turkey. Half an hour later, he slowly galumphed into this bedroom, hopped up on the bed, licked my face, flopped down, farted and sighed.
It's a pretty good life, buddy.