Tanner’s patience pays off!
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 by Mary
He has been patiently waiting for his kids to be old enough to play with him. He adores babies of any kind, (see his kitten in other posts) and he has been watching and waiting. I knew he was really REALLY wanting to play with them when I saw him do something adorable. Evenings after all the kennel dogs are put to bed, is ‘our time’. He selects a toy and we chase around, play keep away, catch, etc. That night, he picked his VERY favorite, “Rodney” a gurgling lobster. He picked out that toy at a dog show, and loves the noise it makes. Anyway, he threw Rodney around for a few minutes and then had an obvious ‘light bulb moment’. He took Rodney down the hall and put his feet up on the puppy room barricade and dropped it over the side, for his kids to play with. It was SO obvious that he wanted to play with them….so the next day was THE DAY. We all went out into the back yard and was he ever HAPPY! He tried to get them to chase him with a pull toy, but they were not fast enough yet. So he just got down on their level and had a ball. He needed to teach them that he wasn’t momma, and couldn’t feed them, but once that was established, they had a ball with their Dad. He was so gentle and careful, and they were little sharp toothed demons! I really enjoyed watching them together. I hope you enjoy the pictures I took!