Lana

Hello! I am Lana, a blue-eyed Australian Shepherd girl. I was born in Pahi on 01.01.2020. My 9 sisters and I were living happily ever after, when in February a bunch of strangers came in and inspected me and my three sisters one by one. I didn’t understand what was going on, because strangers were lifting me up and trying to play games with me, which didn’t seem so bad, so I amused myself. It turned out afterwards that it was a test to see if I was suitable to be a therapy dog. I had no idea at the time what that meant. At 9 weeks the owner picked me up and named me Lana and took me home to Babarc. It took us a while to get used to each other, because I was quite hysterical at the beginning, because my mum wasn’t around and because the owner didn’t pay attention to my every whimper. Weeks went by and I got used to my home, and I really liked it, because there are so many interesting things, for example in the backyard, where there are a lot of birds and sheep, but I can only watch them from the fence. I also had an old daddy dog called Fico, he was my housemate. But unfortunately only for a short time, because the poor thing passed away when I was four months old. I was sorry to see him go, as he was my second dad. When I was big enough to leave home, we started going to nursery with the owner. I loved this time, as it was all about playing with friends.
After I left kindergarten, we enrolled in school, which wasn’t so much fun anymore, because we had to do tasks that I already knew, but the others didn’t and we had to do them over and over again. As a teenager I don’t think I was difficult at all, but the  my owner was. She always resisted and wouldn’t listen. It helped us a lot during this time when we started going to Vivi at SmileDog Dog School, as we became cooperative with the owner and became a better team. When I turned two, it was then that we started to get an outline of what a therapy dog’s job was. I can tell you that it’s not a demanding job, at least for me, because you just have to meet strange children and adults and elderly people and accept petting and treats and of course follow the owner’s instructions.