10/02/2026
🐾 **Olive Update** 🐾
Olive has a new…acquaintance. She did not approve of or choose this for herself, and is quite miffed no one asked her opinion of the matter.
🐶 Meet Snoop, my parents’ new puppy and, according to Snoop, Olive’s new best friend. According to Olive, the nature of their relationship remains under review.
❤️ Since Olive spends so much time at my parents’ house, we have been helping her adjust to having some very enthusiastic puppy energy in her previously peaceful domain. Snoop LOVES Olive. He gets excited every time he sees her, follows her around, watches everything she does, and seems convinced that this large, fluffy, slightly irritated creature is exactly who he wants as his very good best bud.
Olive does not share his enthusiasm.
🙌 But we are making progress. She has moved from general annoyance toward something resembling tolerance, and every once in a while, she even tries to play with him. 🥹 Unfortunately, Olive is a very large dog who apparently has no concept of how terrifying her attempts at play look to a puppy. She initiates, Snoop gets thoroughly startled, and the budding friendship briefly requires a reset.
None of this has discouraged Snoop.
🐾 He continues following Olive around, studying her, attempting to win her affection, and learning how to be a dog from his reluctant new mentor. Olive continues pretending she wants nothing to do with him while occasionally betraying herself by engaging.
I think we are witnessing the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
😂 Olive would like it noted that she strongly disagrees.
