Another reason the Wookie is scary-smart...

Time out... I'm tired!

Tough Pup

(They spent hours doing this!)

LOUDLY!!!

Just imagine the worst dog fight you've ever heard...

then triple it... I started wearing earplugs.

Pretty Puppy

(So deceiving!)

A scary-smart story... the very first day, I gave the pup a chew treat. I also gave the Wookie one of the same. (The Wook had his gone before I finished kenneling Thing Two!) The pup chewed some of his... licked it a lot... the Wookie noticed this and tried to scoot into the pup's kennel every time I let him out.

I figured out what the Wook was after and thwarted his efforts. Now here's the scary-smart part... he waited patiently and when I least expected it... he got in there and snagged it!! Three frickin' days later!! I couldn't believe it!

The other even more scary-smart incidents began on the second day. The pup just wouldn't let the Wookie alone within the tether circle of his line. The first time it happened... I thought, dumb puppy... wrapped himself around the deck post.

Then it happened again. I was beginning to dread this because I thought, "Oh, here we go! This is going to keep happening, I just know it!" Then one morning while I was standing on the deck drinking my 15th or 16th mug of coffee of the day watching the boys play, I could tell the Wook was getting annoyed.

Lo and behold... he body checked the pup, then promptly ran under the deck. The pup followed. The Wook went around one of the deck posts the opposite way.

Guess who followed? Yup... the pup.

30 seconds later... the Wook goes back under the deck... and guess who is now completely ensnared in the deck posts? Yup... the pup. The Wookie prances (yes... he was prancing!) out and is now completely pup-hassle free.

So I went down the deck steps and untangled Thing Two and began to wonder.

So to figure out if this was really what I thought it was, I walked out with them later in the day. The Wook did the same thing! I was stunned. And he wasn't too happy with me when I unwound Thing Two and let him loose on him. He got over it eventually and at least when I was on the deck or dark out he didn't do it. When I wasn't out there... at least every other time!

Remember when I said it made the hair on my neck stand up?