things that Lola has done (eaten)
Lola has never had a formal blog introduction, but she’s now 6 months old and I’m sharing some of the mischief she’s gotten into instead. It’s much more fitting this way.
We knew that we eventually wanted to get another dog. When Maisey started to act more grandma than puppy – sleeping on the couch and just seemed bored during the day – we figured it would be soon...
The narrative relies heavily on emotional framing—joy, excitement, and the cute nature of the destructive acts—to introduce the topic of dog behavior and breed characteristics. The pattern involves establishing a baseline of innocence or innocence-adjacent behavior (Lola is a tornado of joy, she is sweet) before juxtaposing it with extreme, often hyperbolic, instances of destructive eating, which serves to elicit sympathy and prompts the reader to seek validation or solutions. This setup leverag...
