Do you know that we call the other one JOLENE?

By now you know (and I assume love) Fable the Greatest Dane. But have you met her alter ego?

That's right, after nearly six years of Dane-antics, the Hubs and I have finally named Fable's various personalities. 

Meet Jolene. 

Jolene is the part of my dog's personality that believes it can fight an army of bears and win. She has the attitude of the world's grumpiest chihuahua, and walks with the swagger of a lion surveying its Savanna. 

She climbs onto the tallest rocks she can finds and shouts her feelings at the neighborhood. 

Let me tell you, she is A LOT. 

And she emerges when the moon is full...or when Fable got up on the wrong side of the couch. Maybe there was a rat in the yard overnight, or maybe her bestie had playtime with another dog. 

Or perhaps there was one crunchie in her bowl that wasn't quite as good as the others. 

We never know exactly when or why Jolene will emerge. But we always know when she's here.

She's the reason we got a special "I need space" bandana for Fable. (Not that I fault this. Honestly, I think about borrowing that bandana sometimes, because same.)

She huffs in distain if she smells a dog she doesn't like on her lawn, and she sashays down the sidewalk like a werewolf trying out a career in modeling.

*sings off key* Jolene, Joleeeeeeene, please don't take my man just because you can.

In this case, Jolene takes him by dragging him down the road because she's offended by a cat's existence and he's too stubborn to drop the leash.

Also, same. 

As fabulous and sassy as she is, Fable and Jolene sure keep us on our toes. We've been doing a lot of work to help Jolene calm down faster and give us back our Fable. Mostly it works. Sometimes... oh sometimes it is a journey! (Though I haves to tell you, sometimes she's not wrong. Like when she yelled back at a creepy dude in a van who got angry about crosswalks. Lemme tell you, he did NOT think that through.)

Did I expect to be the dog owner walking down the road repeating "Inner peace" to my dog?

Nope. But here we are. 

And wouldn't you know it? Chanting 'Inner peace' actually seems to work! As does reminding her to own the room, not wreck it. 

Speaking of wrecking rooms, Rachel is between a rock, a hard place, and a wall of bureaucracy in the next chapter of The Pandora Strain. And just like Fable, she might have to let her Jolene out...

Luv,
Dee