{"id":1603,"date":"2021-03-12T17:32:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T01:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/needlepictures.com\/tbd\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2021-03-12T17:41:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T01:41:55","slug":"prince-angelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/needlepictures.com\/tbd\/2021\/03\/12\/prince-angelo\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Blogger Nikki Diekemper – Prince Angelo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nikki Diekemper<\/a> is my very first guest blogger! This is her tale of a pupper named Angelo, and her adventures with him at a local animal shelter.<\/p>\n

This article was originally posted on nikkidiekemper.com and can be found here!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Nikki Diekemper and Angelo. Yes, that
\nis a graduation cap he is wearing!<\/em><\/p>\n

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For the past few months, I\u2019ve been working at an animal shelter and already I\u2019ve seen a lot of dogs come and go. It\u2019s always a happy day when a dog gets adopted. However, there is one dog in particular that had been at the shelter since before I started. His name is Angelo. He\u2019s a white pitbull and he became our longest resident. He was there for over 250 days (and that\u2019s a long time for one of our dogs).<\/p>\n

Being our longest termed dog, Angelo quickly became our most known dog. Everyone would try to promote him so he could get adopted. Volunteers would take him out on walks and field trips. People would donate things just for Angelo (he had a whole tub of personal belongings to go home with him when he got adopted). He definitely had a way of buttering everyone up (I mean, he\u2019s kinda cute, he loves being petted, and he loves being around people and meeting new people. So, of course, everyone is going to love him). Angelo was turning into our shelter\u2019s little prince. He deserves it. As our longest termed dog, he deserves all the spoils. Yet, I have to admit, I was never a big fan of him. Yeah, he deserved all the special treatment and he deserved to be the prince of our shelter, but what grinded my gears the most about him was that he KNEW it. He knew he got special treatment. He expected the special treatment! He had a way of sitting down, wagging his tail and looking at you like: \u201cNow is when you give me the treat.\u201d Every time he entered a room, he acted like he owned it (even peed on many things inside of it). Plus, he is way too smart for his own good.<\/p>\n

In my early days at the shelter, I avoided Angelo. I let my co-workers or the volunteers walk him when he needed to get out. He was considered one of our trouble children and would pull on walks or get a little jumpy or demanding for treats. He had a bad habit of not listening to me whenever I took him out and since everyone else loved him so much, I left him to them. My interactions with Angelo was simmered down to feeding him some mornings (he would bark at me when I took too long), and passing out enrichment. To me, Angelo was just a royal butthead.<\/p>\n

Couple months later, I was told that I would be required to take a training course at our shelter. A simple: \u201chow to train a dog\u201d course. All new hirers were required to take it. I was looking forward to it. I mean, I always thought I knew how to train a dog, but taking the training course really brought some commands into a new perspective. I was ready to test my skills and see if I could get a dog to learn all sorts of commands in 6 weeks (that\u2019s how long the course was). Everyone was given a dog at random and I was excited to see who mine would be. I had quite a few I was hoping for!<\/p>\n

I got Angelo.<\/p>\n

Frustration was the first thing I felt with my silent groan. Reasons? Well: 1. I didn\u2019t like him, 2. He\u2019s a royal butt, but mostly: 3. He already knew everything! As our longest termed dog, he got a lot of training from my co-workers, volunteers, and other departments. He knew how to sit, look, wait, lay down, touch, place, and loose-leash walk\u2013all the main requirements for graduating the course! What could I possibly teach him?!<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t complain, though. Everyone wanted Angelo to go through the course so he could get that certificate of graduation because it looks better for him when it comes to potential adopters. Plus, going through the course would give him something to do and it would get him out of the kennel (which dogs can get very stressed in the kennel). I mentioned Angelo\u2019s too smart for his own good. Well, when he gets bored, he starts making bad decisions (he had to be in a jump kennel because he liked to escape). Putting him in training helps avoid those bad decisions, but it also meant that I was stuck with him for 6 weeks. <\/p>\n

Angelo has to wear a harness because of his pulling and\u2013sometimes\u2013he could be nice about letting me get it on him. Other times, he was rather impatient and wouldn\u2019t sit still long enough for me to harness him. The routine for class was that I take him outside so he could potty and then we head to the classroom. I\u2019d let him sniff long enough outside so he can determine where he wants to pee (in multiple locations I might add), and when he was done, I tried to encourage him to follow along so we\u2019re not late and we were late quite a few times because he didn\u2019t like to budge from a place he was sniffing. He would even ignore me when I tried to encourage him along with treats. <\/p>\n

During class, everyone gets a rug for their dog to learn \u201cplace.\u201d Angelo already knew \u201cplace,\u201d so he took to that rug right off the bat. I could get him to focus for a good amount of time by just going through all the commands he already knew while everyone else was trying to teach their dogs these commands. Yet, probably thirty minutes into class, Angelo started getting bored. He kept getting distracted by the other dogs. I kept having to up the value of my treats to get him to pay attention and whenever I asked him to lay down on the rug, he wouldn\u2019t get back up again to do anything else. I felt like I had to do a whole song and dance at times just to get him to get up and touch my hand so he could get another treat and keep training. A couple minutes later, he was bored enough that my treats didn\u2019t matter anymore. He was done. He\u2019d lay on the rug and just look around or he\u2019d stare at me like I was going to give him a treat for just laying there. All the while, his whip-like tail is just \u201cthump, thump, thumping,\u201d away on the floor. I tried to get him to get up, but he was comfortable where he was at, and he\u2019d rub it in by stretching out his back legs. I honestly think he was having too much fun making me look like I couldn\u2019t train a dog. <\/p>\n

It got to the point where I had to get clever to get Angelo to do what I needed him to do. When we\u2019d leave, I always headed toward a door that in the direction of another dog. Angelo would hope we\u2019d say hi to the other pooch, but I\u2019d divert him out the door. Thankfully, he always got distracted by something else that he didn\u2019t feel bitter about not meeting the other dog. Taking him back to his kennel, I always headed outside so he could potty again if he needed too (if he hadn\u2019t already marked his territory inside the classroom\u2026). I\u2019d be nice and let him sniff around a bit, but I couldn\u2019t let him sniff around too long or else he\u2019d decide that he didn\u2019t want to go the direction I needed him to go. We took this class together in January. It was cold. I hate the cold. When I wanted to go back to the kennel right away, Angelo decided that he didn\u2019t. He\u2019d stop and just stand in place, other times he just laid right down on the cold ground and he wouldn\u2019t budge. I couldn\u2019t even convince him to move for hotdogs! He\u2019d just stare at me like: \u201cWe\u2019re not going that way.\u201d Or \u201cI\u2019m not going to follow you, you follow me.\u201d And because I wasn\u2019t about to give into this princely butt, I didn\u2019t budge either. So, we\u2019d both stood there\u2013in the cold\u2013waiting for the other to give in. Thankfully, Angelo would eventually get bored, so he\u2019d always end up following me, but the time it took for him to do that varied.<\/p>\n

A couple classes in, I learned that our dogs needed to learn a party trick before they could graduate. It could be \u201cshake,\u201d \u201cspeak,\u201d jump through a hoop, etc. And it turns out, Angelo didn\u2019t know a party trick. No one taught him any party tricks, they just taught him the basic requirements. So, imagine my excitement at the thought of teaching my butthead a new trick. I contemplated a few different ones. I could probably get him to learn \u201cspeak\u201d pretty easily, but he was already pretty demanding even without barking, I didn\u2019t want to add barking to the mix. Then, I thought he could learn \u201cspin.\u201d Just a simple twirl\u2013a pretty easy thing to teach and it was everyone\u2019s go-to for the party trick. I didn\u2019t want something easy, though. Angelo is an incredibly smart dog! He could learn more than just \u201cspin\u201d. So, I decided on \u201croll over.\u201d I mean, Angelo already lays down A LOT during our training sessions and he often rolls on his back and rubs against the floor when he\u2019s feeling relaxed, so I thought \u201croll over\u201d should be easy for him!<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

The next couple of classes, Angelo and I would warm up with the basic commands and then I get him to lay on the rug and I\u2019d try to guide him into rolling over by bringing the treat up around his shoulder. Safe to say: he didn\u2019t like it. He\u2019d lay down on his side and reach for the treat, sometimes he would get on his back, but he mostly just flopped back the other way in discomfort. I tried to treat him every time he made further progress, but after a couple tries, he would start to get frustrated. I\u2019d switch to a command that he knew to get him back on track, then go back to \u201croll over,\u201d but he wasn\u2019t having it. He\u2019d gnaw at my hand or start lunging at me. One session, he got so worked up that he jumped up at me and caused bruises up and down my arm because he\u2019d hold my arm in his mouth (no pressure, no aggression, just frustration on his part). We ended up having to leave class early that day. I wasn\u2019t helping him any either since I was getting as frustrated as he was (that day, he was being even more of a butthead than usual). It wasn\u2019t a proud day for either of us.<\/p>\n

We started running out of classes. I was training Angelo outside of class, but he wasn\u2019t making progress towards \u201croll over.\u201d I wanted him to graduate. Everyone wanted him to graduate. So, I decided to focus on teaching him \u201cspin\u201d instead. Honestly, I don\u2019t think I\u2019m the one who taught Angelo to spin. One class, he\u2019s not quite getting it, we\u2019re both getting frustrated, and I had to put him up before he figured it out. Throughout the week, I wasn\u2019t able to work with him. So, next class, I\u2019m expecting him to struggle, when he suddenly spins with no issues. I think someone else worked with him on it. I was thankful, now Angelo can graduate, but\u2026I didn\u2019t teach him anything. I just made him do tricks he knew over and over and over again. I tried working on \u201croll over\u201d with him, but by now, I\u2019ve determined that he just doesn\u2019t like to do it. He got all the way over once and I gave him a bunch of treats for doing it, but I don\u2019t think it clicked in his mind that he got all those treats for rolling over. We tried again and he was getting bored and frustrated and he started demanding treats rather than working for them. I had to put him up before he got himself in trouble.<\/p>\n

The day of graduation arrives. Angelo and the other dogs have three tries to prove they can do all the required commands and their party tricks. Everyone goes one at a time and I wanted Angelo to be one of the first ones to test since he starts getting bored after a while and if he gets too bored, he won\u2019t do the tricks. If he doesn\u2019t do the tricks, he won\u2019t graduate. Well\u2026we ended up going last.<\/p>\n

One by one, the other dogs go into a separate room to perform for graduation. In the meantime, I\u2019m trying to keep Angelo occupied and interested while trying to keep enough high value treats to use during the test. We go over all the different commands again and again and again. As long as he focused, he could graduate, but I was very concerned that he would bored by the time our turn came around. As I\u2019m working Angelo and the other dogs are slowly moving out of the room, Angelo starts to lose interest in training. I\u2019d let him take breaks and go sniff around our little corner (and not pee in it like he tried too), but there was only so much he could sniff without getting too close to one of the other dogs. Eventually, we\u2019re the last ones in the room and I\u2019m able to give Angelo free reign. We work on loose-leash walking, and I let him move and sniff and I\u2019d stop him when he tried to mark his scent on everything. I was confident that getting his mind off of training for a few minutes would help him refocus once we got into the room for the test.<\/p>\n

Our turn finally comes around. I learned that all the other dogs graduated and most of those other dogs started the class only knowing \u201csit.\u201d Angelo started the class already knowing most of the commands. If he failed now\u2026well\u2026shame on both of us. We begin. The instructor asks for the commands one at a time and Angelo is doing fantastic! He places when I point, he sits, he lays down, he actually GETS UP when I needed him too. The only issue was when I was loose-leash walking him around the room. He\u2019s supposed to stay at my side when we walk, but he kept getting distracted by the different things around the room (and he wanted to say \u201chi\u201d to everyone in the room). He even peed on a chair before I could stop him. Thankfully, the instructor knows him and knows his antics, so she let it slide, she knows he can loose-leash walk. When the instructor asked for his party trick, Angelo spins (it wasn\u2019t the most graceful, but he did it and that\u2019s all that matters). She then asked about \u201croll over.\u201d She knew I was trying to teach it to him and she wanted to see how it was coming along. I thought: \u201cWhy not? Let\u2019s try it.\u201d I get him down and attempt to get him to roll over. Angelo starts mouthing my hand, he gets partly there, then he flops back to the side. I sigh, he gets up, and the instructor says it\u2019s okay, he\u2019s still graduated. We put a cute little cap on Angelo and take a happy picture together with our certificate. I get one to take home and he gets one added to his file for future adopters to marvel at.<\/p>\n

After that, I start taking him back to his kennel. The course was over. We passed. It was almost bittersweet that I wouldn\u2019t be working with him again\u2026ALMOST. On the way back to the kennel, Angelo starts being a royal pain-in-the-butt again. We have another stand-off on which direction to go. When we finally get moving, he wants more treats, jumps at my treat pouch, and when I deny it to him, he moves ahead and starts pulling. By the time I got him back to his kennel, I was thankful the class was over!<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t see him for a long while after that. Our Behavior Team wanted him in their building so they could play him with other dogs and help the other dogs relieve built-up stress. Angelo could be a rough, but tolerant player and that\u2019s what they needed up there. He even loved it up there. He had an indoor\/outdoor kennel, so on nice days he\u2019d pull all his blankets and toys outside and just chill in the beautiful weather. I never got to see him, but I wasn\u2019t bothered by it. I was busy and he was still a butt in my eyes. The times he did visit our area, I would say hi, but I always found myself shaking my head at the shelter\u2019s little prince.<\/p>\n

Last week, we got some pretty exciting news. Angelo went on a slumber party with a potential adopter and last Friday, the adopter finalized everything. After spending close to a year at our shelter, Angelo was finally getting a forever home! I\u2019ll admit, some of us were skeptical about it. We feared that Angelo would show behaviors later down the road that would get him returned to our shelter, but as of that Friday, he was getting adopted, and the whole shelter was excited.<\/p>\n

People from every department showed up to say goodbye to Angelo. The adopters were nice enough to bring him in when they finalized, so all of us could see him one last time. The adopters were a little overwhelmed by all the people, but they shouldn\u2019t be surprised since they know how much Angelo means to the shelter. When Angelo arrived, he went around to greet everyone: his favorite volunteers, the adoption staff, the reception desk (he peed on the toy donation bin), and eventually he worked his way back to me and the three other Canine Care Techs that were working that day. He recognized all four of us and when we crouched down to spoil him with pets, Angelo came straight to me. I\u2019ll admit, it made me feel pretty good that his royal buttness came to me out of the four of us. My co-workers teased about our love\/hate relationship. That Angelo has all the love for me and I have all the hate for him (which isn\u2019t true. I don\u2019t hate him. He\u2019s just a butt. They just think I hate him because I complained to them about him A LOT during our class). I just let them tease. It had been a while since I\u2019d seen Angelo and now he was going to be going away forever (hopefully). I just wanted to be there with him without having to train him. He and I get so frustrated with each other during training, that I just wanted to be around him without that. There was a lot of people in the adoption area to say goodbye to Angelo, but we hogged him for a while\u2013I mean, we had every right, we took care of him before the Behavior Team took him. We spoiled him with butt-rubs, kisses, everything he enjoyed. We told him to have a happy life, stay out trouble, we\u2019ll miss you, but don\u2019t come back. It\u2019s bittersweet to see our favorite dogs go to their forever homes, but it hurts even more when they come back for any reason. I hope Angelo doesn\u2019t come back.<\/p>\n

Eventually, we did have to stop hogging Angelo. We had to get back to walking the dogs we still had at the shelter. As we\u2019re all getting up to leave, one of my co-workers urges me to show off Angelo\u2019s trick. What was the trick he learned in class? Let\u2019s let everyone see it! I had my treat pouch on me, so I figured, why not? I explained that I tried to teach him \u201croll over,\u201d but he wasn\u2019t getting it so he learned \u201cspin\u201d instead. Well, I\u2019m thinking there\u2019s no way I\u2019m going to get him to roll over in all the excitement of all these people around him, so let\u2019s try a nice and easy spin. I pull out a treat to get his attention, start with an \u201cAngelo, spin!\u201d I do the motion for the trick\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026and he lays down.<\/p>\n

All the frustration I was trying to avoid just starts creeping up on me. In front of all these people, all the different departments, my co-workers, the adopters, Angelo just lays down on the floor when I gave him a command. I couldn\u2019t stop myself from saying: \u201cSo, you\u2019re going to be a butt to me one last time, huh?\u201d He just looks at me with a smile on his face and his tail \u201cthump, thumping\u201d away on the floor. That\u2019s when I noticed the way he was laying. He was laying on his right shoulder, the shoulder I always tried to get him to lay on when teaching \u201croll over.\u201d I figure, why not? Let\u2019s try it. I crouched down, showed him the treat, said: \u201cAngelo, roll over,\u201d and I moved the treat back and over his shoulder.<\/p>\n

He rolled over.<\/p>\n

He rolled right over! First try. One treat. Right shoulder. Back. Left shoulder. Belly. He did it! I couldn\u2019t believe it! I tossed him a ton of treats and then I lost it. The waterworks wouldn\u2019t be denied any longer. I had to leave the room, Angelo brought me to tears and even now as I reflect on it, it\u2019s still making me cry. Yeah, I know. The Behavior Team probably taught him \u201croll over\u201d while they had him, but I didn\u2019t consider that then. I just knew that I tried to teach him \u201croll over,\u201d I didn\u2019t feel successful at teaching him anything, and right then and there, like it\u2019s his parting gift, he rolls over. It took quite a bit for me to pull myself back together. Angelo got under my skin time and time again. I was pretty sure he didn\u2019t like me after all the times we had stand-offs in the cold. Yet, he came right to me that day and he rolled over for me.<\/p>\n

After I pulled myself together, I went back to Angelo. I hate goodbyes so I made it quick. I thanked him for everything. I told him to be good and I warned him that I would be ticked if he did something that got him returned. Then, I gave him a kiss, told him I loved him, and said goodbye. As I walked away, I prayed he would have a happy life in his new home.<\/p>\n

A lot of dogs come and go through the shelter, but Prince Angelo is not one I\u2019m going to forget.<\/p>\n

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