Re: Miss Maple Meets Hawk

["Carol Jackson" <thejacksons@dellnet.com>]

Great story Leigh, seems Miss Maple thinks the world revolves around her
also.  Hunter can get away with stealing from Sasha our Golden, but gets in
big trouble with our friends dog also, several encounters, now he loves to
tick him off so he does it to make him get mad.. then drops the ball in mid
chase.  Does this the whole visit.  Better comic act than at a club.
Carol
----- Original Message -----
From: Leigh Stoller <stoller@fast.cs.utah.edu>
To: <brierpups@fast.cs.utah.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 6:52 AM
Subject: Miss Maple Meets Hawk


> So, we have a little story for ya. We took Miss Maple to our friends Bev
> and Steve yesterday. They have 3 goldens and 1 black lab. This was Maple's
> first exposure to other dogs besides Torrey. Right from the start, it was
> obvious that Hooch (Black Lab) and Hawk (Senior Golden) were not happy
> about the puppy running admist them. Small amounts of growling and
barking,
> but we kept everyone under control. On the other hand, Correy and Dazzle
> were predictably happy to have someone new to play with. Well, about 2
> hours later it seemed like everyone was finally settled down and accepting
> the new situation, when Maple got too close to Hawk's tennis ball, and
that
> was the end of the peace.
>
> Total pandemonium ensued after Hawk went off. Maple ran screaming under a
> chair, and then all 5 adults went after her. They were all barking like
mad
> while Maple screamed under the chair. EVEN Torrey was barking at her!
> Well, Torrey being slightly wimpy, backs up when he barks, and he backed
> himself right off the edge of the deck. Five feet down to the shrubs,
where
> he rolled around for a second, and then dashed right back up on the deck
to
> continue barking. Watching him back off the deck was truely comical.
>
> We finally got everyone settled down, and Maple out from under the chair.
> No damage; just barking. She stayed pretty close to us after that, but
> finally started to venture out again, although Hawk and Hooch had been
> banished to the house by then.
>
> Our plan had been for Maple to meet some other dogs who would not put up
> with stealing tennis balls and bones. I guess we accomplished that,
> although I can't say we have seen any difference in her behaviour today!
>
> Lbs