Donna has a few friends in the neighbourhood that she likes to play with. The trouble is, we don’t actually bump into these friends very often simply because the dogs get walked at different times by grandparents, by domestic helpers, by working humans, etc, etc.
Donna generally would love to approach any dog but I sometimes have to rein her in because some small dogs are very vocal about the mongrel and I have no idea whether these small dogs are just barking for joy or barking a warning.
Lassie the Schnauzer is a quiet dog that tenses and stands very still whenever Donna and I chance to walk past. We’ve chatted somewhat, but because the schnuazer usually seems so tense, Donna only gets a passing sniff of the schnauzer as we hurry past.
At first I thought this was inevitable, since my previous experience with senior dogs was that they just didn’t like to play with Donna. And yes, Lassie the Schnauzer is a senior dog about 10-years-old.
So imagine my surprise when the third time we encountered this particular senior Schnauzer, he seemed to have lost some of his tenseness. In fact, he became downright friendly and playful after a while.
And once they started, they didn’t seem to want to stop! :D
Here are photos of them playing and wrestling around. ; ) I can only assume that the small space may have influence they play behaviour to focus on wrestling rather than chasing each other around in wide arcs (which is something that Donna likes to do.)
I personally think Lassie the Schnauzer looks very debonair with his fringe over one eye. Donna just looks silly with all her weird and funny facial expressions caught in the action shots. :P
with 2 Brown Dawgs
and Heart Like a Dog.
SlimDoggy (@MySlimDoggy)
Glad that Lassie loosened up – probably just wanting to get to know Donna first.
weliveinaflat
I’m glad third time’s lucky! ;)
ThatJenK
Lassie’s one energetic senior! I love the shot of them both on their hind legs, full-wrestle!
weliveinaflat
He IS very energetic. I wouldn’t have believe it because he usually looks so sedate. I wish I could have gotten better shots of his expressions when they were wrestling but I was not in the right spot!
OhMelvin
Look how much fun they are having!! And i love Lassie’s swoop bangs!
weliveinaflat
I just went and googled and realised they may be his eyebrows! Haha, it was a lot of fun for them ;)
Kyla
Donna speaks German!
weliveinaflat
She does?? There wasn’t any speaking they were doing. The playing was rather silent.
dollythedoxie
Love your new look! I guess sometimes it takes more than one sniff to know if you like someone and the dogs weren’t forced together so it helped for them to do it on their own. There is a MinPin on my walk route that used to bark viciously through his window at me and if we passed each other on opposite sides of the road it sounded like he wanted to kill me. Don’t know when it happened but we love each other now, mom just has to say there’s that MinPin and I want to find him and then we each yank our mother’s arms off to get to each other! Love Dolly
weliveinaflat
It’s awesome when they become friends and get to mingle. It’s sad when we have to walk by the other dogs :) Now you can get the man to take you out to meet the MinPin ;)
Bernie Mac
What a good looking Schnauzer! We love the hairstyle! They look like they’re having so much fun!
berniethefrenchie
weliveinaflat
I love the hairstyle too! Donna as you can see can never have any hairstyle!! D: Hahaha.
Beagles and Bargains
Awww how fun! I wish we ran into more doggies who were friendly on our walks too!
weliveinaflat
I wish we run into more dogs… a lot of times we don’t run into any within that full hour of walking.
2browndawgs
Thanks so much for joining the hop! I am glad they got to be friends. The wrestling might have been one trying to dominate the other. Storm and Freighter sometimes play that way. The object is to pin the other. We usually have to break it up if it gets out of hand. ;)
weliveinaflat
Donna and the Schnauzer must be bad at it then… nobody pinned anything ;) But it was fun watching them wrestle ;) Always fun to see dogs play.
Ruckus the Eskie
You guys play too well!
weliveinaflat
Now they just need to learn to execute a debonair bow and sweep of the hand to thank you ;)
weggieboy
A great series of photos of Donna and her new buddy at play!
dorysbackyard
How very cute!! Glad you found a playmate Donna!!
Smileys!
Dory, Jakey, Arty & Bilbo
writetowag
That was a GREAT day indeed!!!! Such joy!!!!