Salma

Today I want to talk about my dog. Her name is Salma and she’s seven years old. I adopted her when she was seven weeks. When her mother gave birth, I started to read some books of by Cesar Millan because I wanted to be prepared. When she got home, everything went smoothly.

She was obedient, good, loving and playful like now. But when she was one year old, she stopped playing with other dogs. She only wanted to play with me and the ball. At first I felt a little frustrated because I expected that she would be more playful with other dogs. The dogs were playing between them with each other and she just looked at them or she was waiting that until I threw the ball. ("she was waiting for me to throw the ball" is another option).

Over time, I learned a lesson. Her personality lets her transmit other emotions, like calmness and serenity and that her behavior to be being different is what gets makes her unique and special.

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Hello Héctor. I have written in green the words that will be correct or that will sound more natural. The words in red are the original words that should be replaced by the words written in green.

We have a dog that is similar to yours, except that she is actually afraid of other dogs (she did not get to meet other dogs during the first 18 months of her life, so she is very nervous around them). The dog trainer (entrenador canino) told me to keep taking her to the dog park and to give her very special food treats while there -- then she should start to associate being around other dogs with feeling happy. So I tried doing that many times, but as soon as we got out of the car and she saw the dog park, she felt so nervous that she would not even eat the delicious pieces of chicken I offered to her. (And we were not even inside the dog park, we were just near the fenced-in area where the dogs run and play together!). So I decided that I shouldn´t cause her stress by forcing her to be with other dogs. At first I felt sad that she would never have any doggy friends or get to run and play with the kind of excitement that the other dogs have when they play together. But then I decided that she seems pretty happy to have a loving family of humans, so her life is still good and she is content. ;-)