Pet Photos thread where too much is never enough.

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A very lol-worthy choice of name.  Glad to hear she does so well on three legs.  Is she alpha because she was on the scene before Zero, or is it just her nature?

Fender is quite a bit older than Zero and she has been there much longer so she gets to be alpha. Not to mention Zero doesn't give a fuck about being alpha and he only gets upset when she cuddles me and won't let him on the couch.

Belgian stand off. I con't remember who wouldn't let who thru. 

Funny the games dogs play, dominance seems to be a central theme in much of it.  But I remember going to a conference on play up at Cal with the wife.  They said the essence of all same-species mammalian play is trusting the other enough to make yourself vulnerable and showing yourself to be trustworthy in return.  

When I first brought Heidi home she was just over a year old.  Fletcher was several years older and Heidi treated him with deference.  But she was always physically more imposing and eventually she took over the top spot.  He could always win the frisbee tug of war contests ..



.. but she could always out wrestle him.  



Once bluff stopped being effective for him ..



.. it was over.



So I guess she was top dog.  But being dominant isn't as smooth and easy for her as it was for him so she probably preferred being his first lieutenant most of the time.

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We have 7 of these things now. They're pets who make us breakfast. 

I'll bet they are as delicious as they are good looking.