Some fings take time friends, and my Muvver would say that my table manners is an ongoing project that does her a worry and a tired. I would says to her that her worry and her tired isn’t my problem, but there is a secret I will shares with you.
When I were a small lad, there was a fing called ‘lockdown’ and it meant that for a long time I didn’t meets other peoples or dogs. Bear in mind that I was already a nervous lad because bad fings had happened to me when I were tiny, that I don’t really likes to speaks about.
For a long time it were just Muvver, Farver and me in the house and even though the world was doing a big fright to peoples, I grew and learned about fings like love and cuddles and treats and it was a house of happies. Then when the bubbles grew, I meets my grandparents and I learned more about love and cuddles and treats and this time even about eggies. But I didn’t learns much about other peoples or other dogs.
When we were allowed to start going out again, the first fing Muvver did was takes me to a dog trainer and a lady taught me how to be around other dogs and because she finked I was a Doberman in the first photo she saw, soon I was doing walks with her big Rottweilers and German Shepherds.
I goes to schools now and I knows how to do a kind and a friendly with other dogs, but when it comes to humans sometimes I still does a shout.
“STAYS AWAY FROM ME HUMAN,” is all I say. I int going to use my teefs on them or anyfing like that, but it does Muvver a fright.
So to try and make me stops with the shouting, they takes me out as much as they can, which isn’t always that easy because the fing is, friends, Muvver and Farver don’t really like other humans that much. They just likes each other and family and a few humans, but for me they says “Let’s go out Ziggy Moonbeam and let you see other humans” and we goes and we does a sit in a restaurant or a pub or a cafe and they say “on your mat” and I sits under the table on my blanket and Muvver holds treats in her hand and when peoples does a walk near us she drops a treat so I eats it.
Then Farver always says “let’s get some chips”, because he has a weakness for potatoes and I watches them and they puts a few chips on the side of their plate to cool down for me, because, like Farver like son: I also has a weakness for potatoes.
Even with these visits to places, I still does shouts at peoples when they walk too close, and I sees their ankles jump with fright when they wonder what sort of large wolf is hiding under the table.
But I will tells you a secret, friends. I only does the shouts so that when I stop, Muvver and Farver gives me a treat or a chip and says “good boy, no bark”.
For that reason, it is somefing I will keeps working on.
Yours, Ziggy Moonbeam ⚡
The Musings & Misadventures of Ziggy Moonbeam 
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