John Strassburger is an award-winning journalist from Santa Rosa, Calif. He writes with the help of his Doberman Pinschers Boreas and Rhaegal, and a Livestock Guardian Dog named Isis.
I recently fostered a dog who first greeted me at the shelter that I sprung her from by jumping up on me. I spent the first two days with her almost exclusively working on preventing her from jumping. When I introduced her to a friend, my friend immediately held her arms out and greeted the dog’s enthusiastic jump up with a big hug, petting, and cooing