• Home
  • About
    • Autobiographical Notes
  • Meetings
    • Writing Practice Group
    • Meditative Self-Inquiry Group
    • Women's Insight and Practice
    • Art and Perception
  • Art in Therapy
  • Blog
    • suggested reading
  • Contact & Finances
    • Psychotherapy Clients: Insurance
    • Student Contributions
  • Tanka Practice
Spiritual Self-Inquiry
Leslie Ihde LCSW, 15 Oakcrest Rd., Ithaca, NY  607.754.1303

Little Things

5/2/2019

3 Comments

 
Bella doesn't always lie down in her corner right away after her walk.  Today she stayed sitting waiting for her treat.  Bella doesn't always curl up with her tail tightly against her.  A couple of times she sat in a Sphinx position with her two teddy bear paws forward, watching me with interest.  She  looks so huggable in that position, but I refrain.

My neighbor, also Leslie, lent Bella a stuffed dog.  (I presume she knows it may not be returned in the condition in which it arrived.)  I played with it in front of Bella and she watched with curiosity.  

The cats like it when I talk with Bella.  They come in to ignore her.  Circe drinks from her water bowl.  Imja jumps up on the dresser to look down on her.

I do pet Bella.  I think she leans against my hand when I scrunchy the thick fur under her ears.  In any case, she no longer turns away.  She sometimes even looks up at me after I stop.  She doesn't necessarily have a "why did you stop" look, but at least seems to acknowledge that something has passed between us, something that was more nice than scary.
3 Comments
Lisa
5/2/2019 01:25:37 pm

This sounds like progress. Good work!

Reply
Leslie
5/2/2019 02:43:46 pm

sister?

Reply
Lisa
5/2/2019 03:55:55 pm

Yes!

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    please note:

    This page is not professional, and has nothing to do with the rest of my website.  I'm writing as Bella's mommy,  just for fun.   Perhaps this blog will be helpful to others  working with former puppy mill dogs. 

    posts arranged
    ​newest first

    Archives

    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly