Play Time

Samish has been pretty overwhelmed by how excited big Langley gets when they are together.  Thankfully most of the newness has worn off and so they are both more comfortable hanging out in the same room together without it becoming a big production. Sometimes though Sam gets fed up with Langley's attempts to play and the video below was one of those moments when he'd had enough.

As tough as Samish was trying to be, Langley still thought it made for a pretty fun game and by the end of the chase, Samish was still wary but actually started to enjoy himself a bit.  I didn't catch it on video but he would drop into a tentative play position and Langley would tear off for a couple loops around the room.  As soon as Samish figured out he wasn't going to get smushed by Langley, he kind of like the power of being able to send Langley's 20 pounds careening around the room.


Samish, sitting comfortably after sending Langley careening around the room

We cut that short though while everyone was still happy and before Langley lost all self control in the pure joy of the zoomies.  So out came the stuffies and the dogs both enjoyed tossing them around and doing a few squeakie death shakes.  Langley and Samish even played tug for about 10 seconds but unfortunately I missed filming that rare moment.

So it's good news all around.  Everyone is getting more "together" time in the living room and Langley is learning to share and play at a level that other dogs can tolerate.