Hey! That’s mine!
I’ll just chew on this end.
Lily and Bruno both love rawhides. Lily is willing to share. Bruno seems to think that he needs to have all the rawhides; however, in the images below, he isn’t trying to take the new one from Lily. It’s really funny to watch them. Bruno is barely bigger than Lily’s head. Usually, Lily will be lying there, chewing on a rawhide, and Bruno will come up to her, lie down, and start chewing on the other end of the rawhide. Lily will turn her head and switch her paws so that the end that Bruno is chewing on gets moved over to her other side. For Lily, this entails hardly moving, but Bruno can’t reach the rawhide anymore. Bruno will get up and walk around Lily to chew, so Lily shifts again.
When Lily isn’t chewing on a rawhide, Bruno runs around the family room looking for them. He likes to gather all of them for himself, and of course, the one that Lily has in her mouth is much better than any of the other 10 rawhides he might find, he must try to take or chew on Lily’s.
Lily’s reactions are a little different. In this series of pictures, she isn’t sure that it’s okay that he has her old one and she gets a new one. Usually, however, she is happy if she has something to chew on, and she doesn’t care if Bruno has one, too. She shares her toys very well, considering that she has been an only child until now.
Lily is dying to play with Bruno. Bruno is a little overwhelmed by Lily. Lily is rough with anyone she plays with, and that concerns us. She could easily hurt him, and she has pinned him against walls and such. So they don’t get to roughhouse. Bruno has learned that if he lies on his back and completely submits to Lily that she can’t chase him. Mostly, she can’t chase him because he is lying on his back. She backs off, but the minute he’s up and running, she is after him again … until we put a stop to it. I keep hoping that Lily will calm down a bit with him. On the positive side, she isn’t trying to stick her nose under him any more.
Bruno spends much of his time in his run. He isn’t quite housebroken. When he is allowed free run and unsupervised, he will poop in the family room bath or the garage. He and Lily can behave when both are loose inside, and I’ve even caught them lying together on Lily’s bed, but Lily will destroy the house if she is allowed to bomb around in it. She has mostly figured out that if she is too active in the familyroom, she gets put outside. Sometimes, she forgets. But if they are unsupervised, we deem the risk to Bruno too great to leave him out of his run when Lily is inside.
Mama gave me a new one, but I still want that one.
I think Bruno knows his name. He continues to be very cute. He often snorts when he is breathing; he is a French bulldog. The snorting sounds like purring and is very endearing. He loves snuggling.
