A Little Sibling Rivalry

Not my dog and cat. lol

Samson and Abby had their first fight last night. Here's how it went down...

We're renting out our house this weekend for the football game, so we're staying at my parents' house. I had taken the dogs and Oscar to my parents' house yesterday morning before I went to work because our renters were going to arrive at our house at noon. The dogs had been at my parents' house all day and hadn't eaten anything yet (which is like their usual schedule anyway - they tend to eat just once in the evening), so Travis gave them each a rawhide chew to tide them over before we fed them when we went to bed. They ate the treat without any problems.

The trouble came afterwards when Travis put out some of their toys; a couple of the toys were ones in which we often put peanut butter or other treats (they didn't have anything in them this time, though). I guess the stress of being in an unfamiliar place was too much, because as soon as Travis set them on the floor, Abby and Sam just went at it! A lot of growling and barking and showing of teeth, but they never really bit each other (which is usually how most dog fights go anyway). We were able to break it up pretty quickly so the fight probably didn't last 30 seconds. Once they were quiet, we put them face to face with their treats between them, so they'd accept each other and make up. They behaved fine after that, so we gave them some supper (on opposite sides of the room just to be safe lol) to quell the Hunger Monster.

It was quite an exciting evening!

Oscar Decides She's Okay

Ellie Stats: 18 weeks old, 11 weeks with us, 50 lbs.

• Ellie hasn’t peed on the carpet in weeks. :D
• She barked and snapped at Samson last night when he got too close to a bone that she had snatched from him earlier after he left it alone.
• Oscar has decided he likes Ellie. They play all the time now.

A Spat with Sam

• Ellie and Rebel are playing well. No more toy-related arguments.
• Samson gets really annoyed with Ellie playing and not letting up with him. One time he growled and started to go after her, so Ellie runs away. Travis stopped Samson, and Ellie sulked in the kitchen. Other than that one incident, Ellie and Sam have played very well together. He gets annoyed with her, but he hasn’t seemed to want to really attack her except for today.