We moved to San Juan, Puerto Rico 3 weeks ago with our daughter and our large furry love-beast named Nico.
Nico is a 2 year old English Goldendoodle. His mother was a blonde English Golden Retriever and his father was a white Standard poodle. He was born in a litter of 5 pups on Christmas Day in 2015 at the breeder’s home in Ohio, US. His temperament is incredible...smart, playful, docile, and relaxed. Additionally we’ve done a lot of training with him, so he is now mainly a joy to take out anywhere.
Puerto Rico is very dog friendly. Maybe everyone loves dogs this much and we just didn’t experience it so much before the move, because we couldn’t take him everywhere like we can here? I don’t know, but here it is amazing.
We took him to the bank last week. The bank personnel at first only see my husband walk in and say formerly, “Hello Mr. King. We have your accounts all in order...EEEEEEEEE!! The dog...!!!” The entire conversation stops. The bank personnel’s voice goes up, she drops to the floor with the dog and strokes him and babbles “¡que lindo!” (So pretty!) Everything stops when people see this dog. This happens multiple times whenever we go out with him!
I adore this experience. 😍😍 Authenticity is the most endearing quality to me, so when people instantaneously drop all supposed propriety, squat on the ground smiling and petting this dog - I’m so happy. It’s like grown adults suddenly become children again! Beaming, squealing and suddenly sharing memories of the dogs they’ve had in life. Their eyes light up when they see this dog and share their own stories of love.
And Nico doesn’t mind the attention one bit. 🤗
After the bank he went to a restaurant and waiting patiently under the table while we had a snack. The restaurant is on the beach so it was very challenging for Nico to wait nicely while he could hear the ocean right there near us.
It’s was all worth the wait to him for the shear joy of running back home up the beach.
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