09/09/2025
An amazing thing just happened with these two!
As you may or may not know, we live in a "managed household" and Glee doesn't interact with the other dogs directly at home because she's special. But Glee and Cow Boy have been working really hard with Good Dog Enrichment and Training on becoming friends with each other.
Well, today, I closed all the dog gates for the other dogs to let Glee out in the backyard, only to realize (too late to do anything about it) that Cow Boy was not in the bedroom like I thought, but chilling in the backyard himself!
As soon as Glee and Cow Boy saw each other, they got excited and ran toward each other and started to play! Now, they were still both clearly very confused about this weird situation. Cow Boy was doing his best to be small and non-threatening, and Glee had all her hackles up. But their body language was loose, and they were playing really nicely, mixing it up with running around and coming together, and sniffing each other.
And, because I knew that they've played at Good Dog before, I mostly didn't panic and encouraged them to play nicely and then to split up, and Cow Boy followed me and went behind a gate with no problem!
And Glee didn't try to guard me, or the random squeaker that they stepped on while playing, or anything else!
We clearly still have to work on making this situation feel more "normal" to them, but I am so proud of everybody!
