shortstuff
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I just wanted to share a bit of our weekend since it was pretty eventful! Joel and I took the girls home this weekend to celebrate my, my mom's, and my dad's birthday. We stayed with my parents and Bisou spent her first two nights not confined to an area! She slept in bed with us and did SO GOOD! :wiggle: All night, she slept between us without incident, even sleeping under the covers for a bit. I'm so, so happy!!!
We went over to our family friend's house who has this little turd of a dog that is quite a bully to Shasta. Abby is always attacking Shasta, biting her heels and nipping her face whenever she can. Shasta refuses to stand up for herself and just takes the abuse. Well... Bisou is rather headstrong and plays rough, so we were curious to see how she'd do with Abby. BISOU SCARED THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF HER! :lmao: Abby got a taste of her own medicine as Bisou chased her all around the house trying to play with her.
They got into a few little tiffs with behavior I hadn't ever seen before... Abby would jump up on the couch, look down on Bisou, then they'd start barking at each other, open their mouths, and slap the sides of their heads against each other while barking. Reading their body language, Bisou was trying to play and just mimicking Abby, but Abby was not happy and was trying to be dominant. Poor little Bisou has such a hard time with dogs telling her no and continues playing because that's what Shasta has taught her. Shasta says no and then 30 seconds later starts to play. So Bisou was trying this with Abby, and didn't pay attention when Abby wanted nothing to do with her. Is this whole head banging thing normal, or is this a behavior we should have attempted to discourage? We wanted to let them hash it out in doggy language, but Abby's "mom" was so freaked out by it and wanted to make them stop. They didn't hurt each other, just sort of smacked each other around with their faces...
Anyways, after all this, Bisou was so tired that she passed out in our arms, which she doesn't often do.
She climbed up into Joel's lap while we were playing board games and out she went!
The next morning, she chose my lap after breakfast to pass out in. And yes, she looks much more massive in my lap than she does in Joel's... I'm only 5'0" 100 lbs, so I make her look like a giant!
We went over to our family friend's house who has this little turd of a dog that is quite a bully to Shasta. Abby is always attacking Shasta, biting her heels and nipping her face whenever she can. Shasta refuses to stand up for herself and just takes the abuse. Well... Bisou is rather headstrong and plays rough, so we were curious to see how she'd do with Abby. BISOU SCARED THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF HER! :lmao: Abby got a taste of her own medicine as Bisou chased her all around the house trying to play with her.
They got into a few little tiffs with behavior I hadn't ever seen before... Abby would jump up on the couch, look down on Bisou, then they'd start barking at each other, open their mouths, and slap the sides of their heads against each other while barking. Reading their body language, Bisou was trying to play and just mimicking Abby, but Abby was not happy and was trying to be dominant. Poor little Bisou has such a hard time with dogs telling her no and continues playing because that's what Shasta has taught her. Shasta says no and then 30 seconds later starts to play. So Bisou was trying this with Abby, and didn't pay attention when Abby wanted nothing to do with her. Is this whole head banging thing normal, or is this a behavior we should have attempted to discourage? We wanted to let them hash it out in doggy language, but Abby's "mom" was so freaked out by it and wanted to make them stop. They didn't hurt each other, just sort of smacked each other around with their faces...
Anyways, after all this, Bisou was so tired that she passed out in our arms, which she doesn't often do.
She climbed up into Joel's lap while we were playing board games and out she went!
The next morning, she chose my lap after breakfast to pass out in. And yes, she looks much more massive in my lap than she does in Joel's... I'm only 5'0" 100 lbs, so I make her look like a giant!