Making Friends

I have been taking Billy to the dog park pretty much every day so that he can get out and interact with all kinds of different breeds. Some nights there are close to 20 dogs of all shapes and sizes running around for him to sniff at. There have only been 3 instances where you see a dog's nose get out of joint and a bit of a disagreement hapens and yelping ensues.

Billy loves seeing all the dogs and sniffing when he can, but the problem is, he is usually the smallest dog there by far and he can't reach their butts to do any sniffing! It is always great when a little dog is there for Billy and it is interesting to see how different he is with the smaller dogs compared to the bigger dogs.

Below, you will see Billy carefully sniffing 'Percy' a big Saint Bernard:

Notice how meek and carefully he is approaching Percy.

He is a different 'act' when he sees dogs that are his own size. Have a look at his body language in these photos of him with three mini-pinchers:

Even though this min-pin is Billy's size, he isn't a puppy so the playing that Billy wanted to embark upon wasn't on his agenda. It looks like he is giving Billy a tune up, but they were just checking each other out.


He really liked these little guys, but they were more interested in sniffing the trunk of this tree. Oh well.

Yesterday Billy met Chloe, a little weiner dog who immediately took a liking to him. The two ran and played for about 30 minutes and when we got home, Billy was spent.

So cute.