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Significantly more personal post today. Wanted to change things up.
This is an experience we had with our 1.5 year old border collie...
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100% here for all pet related content in Dev.to. Audrey rules! Keep em coming!
Will do! Not exactly "Dev" material so I was worried it wouldn't be received well.
Honestly this is what I would consider some of the best content. As an individual living with some rather serious mental health issues, I love seeing content that raises awareness of any mental health issue, and anxiety is one that I imagine a great many members here can relate to.
You approached this with the mind of an engineer. You made a hypothesis, gathered data that supported your theory, and once confirmed, integrated it. Uplifting stories can be difficult to find when anxiety or other mental health issues are involved, and your story has a happy ending, brings hope and optimism, and offers some great observations on the non-computing side of development, which is often neglected.
Great job and I look forward to reading more of your content in the future!
I'm glad it resonated with you. It's actually what I have the most to write about, so I'll make sure to write more stuff like this. Anxiety is a bitch, I think it contributes to almost every problem in the world.
I'm glad you took that away from the story. For a long time I would just get defeated by my anxiety, because that's what people around me did. Once I realized that anxiety follows rules like anything else, attempting to combat it became much easier.
Thanks for taking the time to leave such a positive and insightful comment. Expect more of this stuff moving forward.
Well, Willy approves. :)
What a stud. What breed is he?
We’re not sure. Seems like some border collie and pit bull. Some pictures of staffordshire terriers kind of look like him. He may actually be just a very small cow.
What about Audrey?
I was guessing there might be some border collie in there, but I wasn't entirely sure. Pit bulls get such a bad rap, they are such awesome dogs.
Have you tried milking him?
Allegedly a purebred border collie. She has very unique markings (for any breed), and we adopted her from a family, so it's hard to know for sure.
My family's dog had an interesting way of picking up on anxiety too. My sister and I would walk her at different times with very different results - my sister is more anxious than I am and Jessie (the dog) would pick up on it and growl at strangers if they came too close. I walk confidently and have martial arts training so she would typically just ignore people on our walks together because I was not regarding them as interesting or a threat. I could run with her off leash, my sister could not. Pretty interesting how they can read us almost better than we can read ourselves!
I forgot to share - this is Jessie!
That's a unique looking dog. What breed is she?
She's a husky german shepherd mix! So she ended up with the husky colors (and stubborn attitude), with the shepherd markings and smarts. She's such a cool dog!
Cute pup! Always said dogs are far more intelligent that we give them credit for :)
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Thank you for posting this! Highly appreciated.
As someone with anxiety issues too, I will try to start watching more for my own triggers, and how it affects other people.
Hey, thanks for taking the time to read the post. I'm so happy to hear it resonated with you. Let me know how it goes!
What a good girl! She's clearly solving relatable problems in that video.
I'm definitely not biased, so I feel confident saying she's a contender for "best girl". She's debugging the toy.
I haven't read yet. I hearted because of the title. ❤️