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Bedtime part 2!

When we did go to bed, Lola would constantly keep me up with her licking sounds. It was nonstop and LOUD. Apparently that was her only time to bathe herself or something! It would keep me from sleeping, but I didn’t mind it. She also took over 3/4ths of the bed, but I didn’t mind that either. She was close and snug to me, and I loved her for it. Even if I missed having my own spot to lay

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The Couch

She wasn't always on the couch. It started off when we had to cut her tail because she had the diagnosis of Happy Tail and it just wasn't getting any better and was harming her.

She had a singular piece of the couch. One box. Then she had another, because we realized she was a bit big. We kept a blanket/towel under her at the time (Because she was still recovering from the surgery and she had a "diaper" on). We joked she'd be taking over the entire couch!

Well, as time went on, she took even more sections of the couch, before she finally was just permanently on the couch and had free reign- without the buffer of blanket or towel.

My dad wasn't the happiest camper, but by everything was Lola cute!

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Her weight!!!

She was HUGE. 103-110lbs normally! And she was convinced she was a lap dog. She occasionally put her chest on my chest and got in my face, putting ALL of that weight on me. She leaned a lot too on everyone on the couch. That's how she inched her way on the couch.

I never had the heart to tell her she wasn't a lap dog.

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First Days

When we first got her, we fostered her for around ~3 days. Then we adopted her.

In the time we fostered her, she never touched the food on the tables, never chased the cats, none of it. She was disinterested.

Then, I swear right after we adopted her, she began doing all those things! It was her way of saying "Haha! You're stuck with me now, suckers!"

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All the things our dog was that wasn't a dog!

A Cow (She mooed a lot + her dog coat)

A Cat (Laid down like a cat and was scared of everything, including machine cranes hundreds of feet away)]

A Horse (Have you seen her? ~103lbs and could easily sit on me)

A Bunny (She hopped a lot, that's where we got the inspiration for her name from too!)

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Cleaning the yard

Whenever I grabbed gloves and a bag, no matter what she was doing, she begrudgingly (or excitedly) follow me into the backyard when I went to clean. She always accompanied me, no matter what I did. She didn't even do anything necessarily, just made she I was there with her.

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Games

We had numerous games we played together.

A lot of the time we'd take to the middle of the living room and push each other around. She'd growl and so I'd imitate her (to this day I still growl, it's now a subconscious thing). I'd push her head around and push her away and she'd bound right back to me and do the same to me. I'd get on her level often too, which she absolutely loved. She'd get a toy sometimes, but I was always worried about injuring myself. She was a reckless puppy!

Another game we'd play would be when I finished cleaning up the backyard and head back to the gate to go inside. She'd sit waiting for me, ears perked up and waiting. She then stand up, and bend herself into a "downward dog" position and stare at me with her wide eyes. I'd stop and get down her to her level in a jolt, which made her go down even more. Then, I'd make a jolt to her and she get up and growl playfully, running in circles.

She'd hall ass more into the backyard, running circles around the pool. I'd enter the backyard finally and she'd bound to the backdoor, waiting ever patiently for me.

These photos are Live Photos on my phone or on iCloud. They have her growl sounds too.

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Nesting behavior

Whenever she went to lay down, she always needed to nest. It was akin to a cat, where she would go around and around multiple times to lay down. She'd pick at the blanket with her teeth, pad at it with her paws, until it was just perfect for her to lay down.

Lest to say, we went through our fair share of blankets.

We'd only get her a dog bed at the end of her life near the end of 2022 and beginning of 2023. It came in great use, but we had to destroy it after she was gone (too many memories). We got it for her because of our new couch, but she still came to chill out on it anyways.

She was a Great Dane, what were we supposed to do? Lol

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Bedtime

Whenever it hit a certain time, say ~8-9pm, Lola wanted really bad to go to bed. She'd stand at the end of the hallway, ears perked, and barked occasionally. She'd wait down the hall until I opened the door, and then waited even longer to make sure I went to bed too with her.

Whenever my mom and I had a horror night, she'd get frustrated. I'd have to "tuck" her in multiple times (AKA sit in the bed and let her lay down for a bit) before she'd often ultimately give up and come sit on the couch with us.

When we got the new couch, we'd lay the blanket out and she'd come sit there between my mom and I.

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Snout

She constantly put her head under the blankets. It began with her snout before just her whole top half of her body lol. It started after JCLC in 2020-2021 (Sophomore year). I was gone for a week, and when I returned she was doing that.

We hypothesize that it was a comfort thing, and it just stuck ever since.

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Singing

I was practicing vocal exercise because I was obsessed with Ghost and I hate my voice- I still do, but anyways- while I was doing that, I was vibrating my lips. She was so curious and decided to slap my face with her snout whenever I tried.

I had to stop doing it because one, she kept stopping me, and two, I was laughing too hard.

She licked my face, as if asking "Are you good?" lmao