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thought you’d want to see how he’s doing

[ and eren sends a video attached:

and in this video is eren huffing erratically with a grin so wide, his face streaked
and wearing a germany flag-cape over his platinum jersey, holding his phone up with one hand and with the other, crouched onto the apartment floor and hugging not one, but two dogs: titan and a creamy colored young old pitbull boxer mix with bright blue eyes that, quickly, is noticeable enough to be a lot more hyperactive. they’re both wearing germany bandanas with doggy grins. ]

You guys know Titan, [ BREATHE ] but this is Kaiser. [ BREATHE AGAIN, only to put something on tv, but too late, he takes an even deeper breath and starts speed talking. the dogs already begin to whine from the minute he starts onward, like dogs that have something to say but can’t say it. ]

Germany’s last chance at a saving win, Kroos stands over the ball free-kick on the left of the Sweden area, Kroos rolls the ball to Reus, he kills the pass, Kroos goes for the shot and— Toni Kroos!! The games last minute!! TOR GOAL.

[ there’s a pause short enough only for the dogs to lift their heads as this scene replays on the tv behind them with the speakers silent— until they howl. then the speakers blare gOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL and so does eren, yelling with them and shaking the camera and there’s a lot of bouncing until the dogs pile on him for making such a worrying racket. ]

[ good thing koga is not dumb when it comes to some sports stuff because being a secretary means you can't be culturally dead. he's got the most skeptical look at the first few seconds of this video though, because holy heck eren he thought people like you were a myth, lost to the abyss thanks to retrospec/recolle/hackers??? trying to cut off its population from the outside world and non-users.

then he sees the dogs. skeptical face changes to an amused one, because wow they really do look happy with him, especially kaiser. again, dogs probably can't appreciate sports as much as their owner does, but it's charming.

finally, the goal howl. that... is a thing, which warrants a response. ]

Fucking incredible.

[ Attached to this message is a selfie of Koga, haven fallen off of the couch and half-sprawled on the floor with an unexpected grin. Morrigan the cat is caught in the shot with a paw on koga's shoulder, wondering why dog boy has fallen but not gotten back up. ]

[ perfection. he’s satisfied. while it’s going to take some to ease off the gas (and get the dogs to ease off, too), eren sprawls on his floor by the couch with his new dog pile— titan has liked serving as a pillow since he was a kid, while kaiser gets some time on his belly to pant off the exhaustion. they did so much. but he swears the mut doesn’t know how big he is! ]

morrigan can’t do that.

Cats don't follow rules, you know.

I think he was checking for signs of life but now I got him trapped in my arms so close enough? If only you could teach cats about sports.

I respect them for that.

and, well. you can always trick them into it.

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I don't think we could top what you did though. They're fast learners, Titan and Kaiser. Oh, is Kaiser doing alright with his regular training?

he’s got his own set of rules, or none of those. stay took well over 30 tries.

but he’s getting the idea, we just need to keep at it. it would’ve taken longer if i didn’t have titan.

I'm sure he wants to be good dog for you, to pay you back. At least he has Titan to learn it from another dog.

I guess being a good, loud sports fan is what he thinks fits that bill for you. They get along, I hope?

A lot. Titan isn’t the jealous type. I think he actually likes the company, he’s alone for most of the day now.

They play around at night and think I can’t hear them.

Stealthy dogs they are not. I mean, you just sent them a video of them cheering for Germany.

Do you scold them for that? Sleep's kind of important.

Like dogs like owner.

If I’m still awake. It’s hard for me to hear anything if I’m sleeping.

If it works out that they get the playfulness out of their system so they can work hard during the day for training...

Then holy shit. Your dogs are fucking geniuses.

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LATE but back from vacation so here I go

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