After seen this ridiculously cute photo of ”Johanna” we decided to go and see her at the shelter. There and then she won my heart within a split second.

On the 2nd of January 2015 ”Johanna” was brought to me here in Berlin by the people who work at the shelter and they asked me if I was going to keep her name. I had been thinking about this quite a bit since I felt that ”Johanna” didn’t suit this little creature at all.

The people who I had been showing Shenzi’s photo to kept saying ”She looks like a Hyena!” and I very much agreed so then I started thinking ”Hmm.. what would a hyena be called?” and THEN I started thinking about the hyenas in Disney’s The Lion King and after a little Google session I found out that the leader of the hyena pack in that movie is called Shenzi Marie Predatora Veldetta Jacquelina Hyena, so ”Shenzi” it was. She did listen very well to it from the first time I called it.. it also suits her way better in my opinion.

She did get into a fight with another dog a few months after I got her and broke her leg badly and had to have a surgery. That was followed by 3,5 months of pain, going in and out of the vet every second day and a lot of medication and since then she has been a bit more ”on guard” when it comes to other dogs but you know what? I don’t blame her.

Except from food her big passions are long walks, belly rubs and naps. She does spend alot of her time at home just chilling and sleeping, sometimes she might play for a minute or two but she gets very easily bored. She’s not the biggest cuddler either so most of our cuddles are forced by me and she’s basically just being nice when she is letting me do that once or twice, sometimes three times, a day. I think that’s why I kinda like when there is a thunder and she gets scared. Don’t get me wrong, I really don’t enjoy seeing Shenzi scared but when she is she either crawls into my closet (where her bed is now, for that reason) or she wants to be close to me so I can protect her, and that is quite nice I have to admit.