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The wheels began to roll \u2014 and Chloe answered with a quick, excited burst.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere you go, there you go,\u201d Brown said, as Chloe let out a high-pitched bark, almost a chirp, while she rides.<\/p>\n
Then, as Chloe found her rhythm, Brown cheers her on again: \u201cGet on it, yay! Good job!\u201d \u2014 Chloe yipping back as if she understood every word.<\/p>\n
Those cheers from Brown sound like they\u2019re meant for a kid learning a new hobby \u2014 not a dog finding her footing on four wheels.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe’s going ‘Mom look at me, look at me’ and she’s really proud of herself,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Brown said the idea started at home. She grew up skateboarding, and later watched her son pick it up too.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was cool to see him do that and that’s what got me the idea of teaching one of my dogs.\u201d<\/p>\n
When she brought the board out, Chloe didn\u2019t need convincing.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe actually got on it without me telling her and she just sat like that. Would not get off of it,\u201d Brown said, laughing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
From there, things just clicked.<\/p>\n
Now Chloe can hop on, steer with her body and even push herself forward \u2014 cruising along with confidence. But Brown said the biggest shift didn\u2019t happen on the board, it happened in Chloe. She said she has four other dogs, but Chloe has always been the shyest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMy dogs are really good at barking when somebody comes by the house. Chloe would just stay in her crate,\u201d Brown said. \u201cShe doesn’t like to do much and so when I found out that she liked to skateboard, I was really happy because it has given her a lot of confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Once the quiet one in a house full of dogs, Chloe now barks, plays and keeps up with the pack.<\/p>\n
And she\u2019s not just turning heads at home.<\/p>\n
Brown started sharing Chloe\u2019s rides online \u2014 where plenty of people are stopping to watch.<\/p>\n
“This one has 501,000 views on it,\u201d Brown said, playing a video from the social media page she made for Chloe.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt makes me feel really good because I know she brings a lot of joy when they see her. It’s something so positive for a change.\u2019<\/p>\n
For viewers, it\u2019s fun to see a dog on a skateboard.<\/p>\n
But for Brown, it\u2019s something more.<\/p>\n
A shy pup, a simple idea and a set of wheels \u2014 all coming together to help Chloe find her balance, her confidence and a whole new way to roll through life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chloe, a King Charles Spaniel, now rides, barks and plays after discovering a hobby that helped her come…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-380226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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