Playing with the Big Girls

You just never know when one of the big girls are going to decide to lay aside their grouchy anti-puppy stance and decide that it would actually be fun to play with a puppy. Gus has realized this so he just keeps trying to get them to play with them, hoping one of these days they will take him up on it.

A rare occasion where Sal played a little tug with Gus

So far his attempts with Chima have not gone so well. Chima's still not comfortable around him so when she "plays" it is so intense and close to her threshold that I don't feel it is safe, even though Gus doesn't seem to mind the intensity level. Little guy is up for everything, even if it involves getting screamed at by Chima. In those cases I have to be the bad guy and break things up. Below is a video where Chima just outright says "NO". Gus had been trying for about 15 seconds to get her to play by playfully waving his arms around and tapping her leg. By the time I got my camera rolling I just caught the end, which wasn't pretty.

However, she isn't always mad at Gus.

Salinas mostly rebuffs him when he tries to play with her but yesterday morning when Chima was sleeping next to me so couldn't interfere Gus and Sal had a grand old time wrestling and chasing. It was a bit one sided in that Sal always had Gus down and pinned but Gus didn't seem to mind since he kept coming back for more so I didn't break things up.

Chima later woke up and had to go be the fun police which put a damper on the playtime so Sal and her decided to soak up a bit of sun and Gus had to find something else to do.

Chima deciding to catch some sun, right in the middle of the wrestling area

Chima keeps an eye on things to make sure Gus doesn't get a sneak attack in