This past weekend was Invasion weekend. Ash came and brought her sweet puppy Scott. I've been wanting to tousle with him since I first met him several months ago. We chatted about playing together and I mentioned that I had never really played with another puppy before so I was nervous. Throughout the evening, he gently coaxed me out of my shell and had me gearing up for some puppy play by the end of the night.
Onii helped me put on my mitts and then had to run off for a minute before putting on my collar. I had to wait for him to come back before playing because I just couldn't go on without my collar. I'm so connected to it. What a relief it was to have it firmly snapped around my neck. I was happy to have my master around too while playing with another pup for the first time.
Puppy and I wrestled for a bit. At one point, he jumped on top of me and bit at the scruff of my neck a bit. I momentarily snapped out of puppy space in complete elation before diving right back in and pinning him to the ground. Eventually, I nuzzled the bag that had my toys in it. Ash tossed a squeaker bone out. Puppy and I both went after it. It was really fun trying to get it away from him and then pouncing on it to make it squeak. It wasn't great for playing tug o war with though so Ash threw out the braided rope toy. We had a blast pulling each other back and forth. I was a little worried that I would hurt Puppy because I can get pretty into the tug o war game. I've pulled so hard that my ears started ringing. It builds up some crazy muscles, I'll tell ya. Finally, the ball was tossed into the mix. I SUPER DUPER loved playing fetch, especially because the ball was just a bit bouncy. It rolled back and forth between Puppy and I while we both tried to grab it.
At one point, Puppy took off into the other room and I followed. Onii and Ash chased after us and brought us back to the mats. We tried wandering off one other time but Onii called me back so I obediently returned and heeled next to him. I'm not really sure what Puppy did. My focus was on Onii in the moment. I really enjoyed the feelings I was having toward Onii at the moment. Complete trust and wanting to please.
Eventually, Puppy and I were tuckered out and flopped down next to each other, panting. Ash and Onii brought us bowls of cool fresh water. I drained mine pretty quickly while Puppy slowly slurped at his. He took a step back for a moment and was encouraged to keep drinking. He cleverly swapped my empty bowl for his so he could be done but it was promptly filled up with more water. We all laughed.
"Wanna go for a walk?" Onii asked. My ears perked up and I bumbled over to the bag with my leash in it, pulling it out with my teeth. Puppy and I walked in line from one room to another, getting scritches from friends along the way. It was nice. We ended up in the littles room where there was a huge dog crate.
Puppy and I both climbed inside the crate together. I didn't think we'd fit but somehow we did, and pretty comfortably too. There was a santa hat sitting on the top of the crate and, of course, we tried to pull it down but Onii was too quick for us. We eventually hunkered down, wrapping ourselves up in a big mushy puppy pile of snuggles. It was so wonderful. I truly felt like a fuzzy pup. Eventually Onii and Ash wandered off and left us to relax and chat. It was amazing. I can't wait to play again.