Juno
In the Simpsons episode about Mojo, the helper monkey, Homer’s lifestyle slowly ruins the monkey’s health.
When a colleague asked if I would take over ownership of his 8 month old golden retriever, Juno, I was worried that the same thing would happen to her. While I’ve always gotten a minimal amount of exercise on a regular basis, I’m not exactly what you’d call “the athletic type,” and I certainly don’t have 1/10th the energy of a young golden retriever!
Fortunately, rather than Juno staring at a computer screen blogging all day, it is I who find myself going on morning walks in the mountains behind my house - something Shashwati points out we didn’t do once all last year! They say pet owners live longer, healthier lives, and more frequent exercise may be one important reason. (This won’t help Taiwanese however, as they seem to walk their dogs by driving their scooters!)
In future posts I will write a bit about training Juno, as well as some of the unique challenges to raising a dog in Taiwan.
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Katherine loves Juno. Such a beautiful dog. You also introduced her to the Simpsons. Hope we can come down to Hualien to see her some day.
Juno loves kids - but she needs to learn to calm down before I’d let her near one. Right now she still likes to jump on new people and nip at their clothing … More when I write about training…
An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
She is a beauty.