I have lots to cover in my Follow-Up Friday feature:
Favor Please – Author’s Note:
Saturday morning I took Sampson and Delilah on a walk with a couple of our hiking buds. In the field the dogs started to play and I took a video. Delilah was the chocolate lab with the purple collar; initially it was just Delilah and Brady (the chocolate with the orange collar) but they were soon joined by Kodak (the golden) and Tea’ (the shepherd.) Besides the mounting, I thought the dogs were playing appropriately.
Delilah is an Alpha Female and I expect other dogs will try to exert their dominance. Delilah is very capable of letting them know when she has had enough.
When I got home and was showing the video to hubby, he said, “I hate when they antagonize her.” Wow, I was totally caught off guard with that comment and since I didn’t perceive it the same way, I thought I should throw it out to blogland.
It was generally understood that the “humping” was a dominance issue instead of sexual; and the video was more playful in nature.
Shows how far apart hubby and I are when it comes to the dogs. 🙁
Look Before You Leap – Author’s Note:
One of my readers’ wrote in to say that her dog, caught and ate the chipmunk and promptly vomited it up! EWWWW thanks for that visual Donna. I have now added “Please don’t let Delilah catch a chipmunk” to my prayer list. 🙂
Dogs and Cats – Update:
Wednesday night Bob was so snug between the two dogs on the bed, that he was actually touching Delilah’s foot.
Last night he got up on the bed and Delilah growled at him. 🙁 I let it play out and he got down with no blood shed. 😉
Junk In The Trunk – Author’s Note:
Some of you caught this in the comments and have already commented on it; I forgot to mention (because I was in a hurry to post) that Sara agreed to let me teach a clicker class! I appreciate all of your support and will definitely keep you posted on this new venture.
Way behind, but congrats on the Clicker class. Can’t wait to hear about your clicker training!
I am reading a book about it and am checking into a class. I think I’ll write a post about it. 🙂
I am glad you posted a follow up to the video!
The reason it didn’t strike me as negative was the fact that the body language of the dogs was so loose and Delilah seemed to be having a good time, despite the humping. None of them were tense or aggressive. At least, it didn’t look like it to me! Even when she was telling him off she was looking pretty relaxed and confident.