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Pepper doesn't really jump on people or bite them. She just gets really excited, wiggles around, turns circles and rubs against them, goes between their legs and goes belly up, and jumps up right next to them, but not actually on them. It takes 2 to 3 minutes to get it out of her system. She had stopped getting so excited she pees.

We've been working to try to sit calmly and say, "Hello" as the standard greeting humans procedure. She still gets pretty excited though.

She was real talkative this afternoon so we went thru her vocabulary. She Speaks (bark), Says; Hello, Good Morning, I love you, I want It, Another one, Drink of water, and I want out. She barks at the door when she want's out. When I go to the door she says "I want out." When I hear her bark at the door, I call her to me and have her sit and say "I want out." Wondering how long before she just comes to me and says I want out leaving the bark at the door part out. She now does it if I am asleep, but still does the bark at the door thing if I am up and around.

We have a convenient store/gas station with a drive up window. They know me well and I pay at the drive thru. They keep Beggin Strips to give her. 2 of the guys that work there give them to her. If she sees one of them she keeps say hello until they give her a treat. The other people that work there she just says it once when the come to the window. One of the guys really likes her and reaches out the window to pet her. The other is kind of funny. He's likes her but is afraid of dogs. He started just throwing treats at her. Now he kind of half hands them to her and half throws them. He jerks his hand back really fast and almost screams. Told him if he just slowly gives it to her she will be really easy with him and slowly take it, but as long as he is kind of throwing them she snaps because she is trying to catch it. He is still really proud of himself for not just throwing them at her.

Contrary to what some may think, even though some seasons have more of it than others, rain itself is NOT one of the seasons.