Rocky's had quite the year. She lost her home and her limbs, but she's holding on to that unbreakable spirit!
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00:00You know, when she wakes up in the morning and I go to cuddle her, she sort of squeaks
00:04and makes these sort of affirming noises. She'll be like, hmm, hmm, hmm, like, that's so bizarre.
01:00And I knew, I was fairly certain that I wanted either a special needs dog or a senior dog
01:13or something like that. And I saw her story and I just melted. I was just like, I love
01:19her already. I can't explain it. I was like, she's like my baby already. So that was pretty
01:25much it. I knew straight fire that she and I belong together and that I could offer her,
01:29you know, a really supportive understanding and patient home. And she could, you know,
01:36offer me an awful lot of love and affection. And she's a very strong character. So she's
01:42certainly done that so far. Kind of pull for me to get a special needs or senior dog because I had
02:00a lot of health conditions when I was younger, I had a lot of health problems. And even now,
02:04I still struggle with my health a little bit. And I had been in a situation where, you know,
02:09I wasn't necessarily always very, I wasn't always very able. I was in a wheelchair a lot. I was in
02:18hospital a lot. And I could sort of, I don't know, I suppose I saw a bit of a relatability with other
02:24dogs who, you know, with other people who kind of struggle with that.
02:28So she walks on her two legs. And, you know, every now and then she'll kind of stop and she'll use
02:58her nose and her chin for balance. Sometimes she'll have a little rest. But for the most part,
03:03yeah, she just kind of, it's really strange to try and describe, but she sort of hunches her back
03:09and just walks and she uses her front legs. They move as well very, very quickly. So it's almost
03:14like it's for balance. So it's almost like she's treading water, you know, when you tread water,
03:18and you're sort of moving your arm, it's a little bit like that. So she's amazing. She just gets
03:24around like that. And I'll tell you what, when you're not watching her, she can be very quick
03:28as well. So she can get into a bit of mischief. Say hi. She hates cameras. Okay, don't be so
03:45grumpy. She absolutely hates cameras. But she is a funny girl. And when she gets overexcited,
03:51she kind of like gets her little arms and like wiggles them like that. She's really cute and
03:58loves to stand up on her hind legs and sniff everyone. And because she's quite long, when she
04:03stands up on her hind legs, she's got incredible balance. She's very, very tall. And I'm quite
04:08short. I'm quite a short person. So she can come right up close to me and sort of like she likes
04:14to boop. She gets her nose and nudges my nose just to say hello. So it's really sweet, really,
04:20really sweet. Very, very food driven as well, which I'm training her because for the first,
04:35I suppose, week or so and I'd sit down with a meal, she would literally try and wrestle me
04:40for the food. So now she's doing much better. I say to her, no, no, and she'll step back.
04:46So she's definitely getting better at it. But yeah, for the longest time,
04:49she'd get up on my shoulders and start just pushing me. This is my dinner. And I'd say
04:55Rocky's dinner, mummy's dinner, Rocky's dinner, mummy's dinner. So it's taking a lot of training,
05:01but she likes her food for sure.
05:16So if there's one takeaway, it's just, give a pup the benefit of the doubt because you have
05:34no idea how strong and resilient they are and how capable they are of actually just
05:38adapting like that. And they're much more resilient than we are, I think.