Now don’t get me wrong, I am not and never will be challenging for top dog. I just want to stand up for myself when I need to and I am working on it. It’s Aristotle. He’s realised he is an adult and has got it into his head that he would like to be top dog. At the moment he is throwing his weight around and being a little more insistent than he needs to be. Shadow is continuing in her usual approach and I’ve got news for Ari, because it will be a few years yet before he really has the upper hand. He doesn’t understand the nature of a pyrrhic victory. So he stole the cow horn chew from under Shadow’s nose, but it was his in the first place and she isn’t that fussed about it. He ‘stole’ the end of the long chew that Shadow had, but that was after Shadow had put it down saying she’d had enough and couldn’t be bothered to spend all day chewing pointlessly. He does want my spot on the settee, but he isn’t getting that and he does want to sleep in my Mistress’s bedroom and he isn’t getting that either.
There is quite a lot of moulting going on at the moment. I’m blaming Shadow who is into her ‘re-season moult’. It is funny to think she will be in season again soon it doesn’t seem five minutes since she was having puppies. Megan is off to see a specialist today to see if he can tell her why she hasn’t come into season and why she simply doesn’t manage to get pregnant. I’ve got my paws crossed for her. She would make a lovely mum. I know she and I have our differences but she is a beautiful dog however much she doesn’t like me.
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