Two potential future breeders were playing together today.

Hannah, the black and white parti Labradoodle and Gunny, my chocolate Cockapoo enjoy each other's company often.  I love to watch them play. Sometimes they ignore each other and other times, they play very hard - leaping, jumping, chasing, and diving through tunnels; and then collapsing to re-charge and do it again.  :+)

Tongues are hanging out most of the time from all that running and water intake!

It is an exciting job to watch your babies growing up. Hopefully, testing will go well and we will see what these two bring to the ADNE program in a year or so. Lots of patterns including parti, abstracts and phantoms.

These two pups love to play together and should be taking naps this afternoon. :+)

Gunny (6 mos.) and Hannah (7 mos.) are similar in size and age and it looks like they are trying to tear each other apart in the pics! Don't be alarmed, they are having a ball together and love the 'rough and tumble' playtime.  I had just finished giving my parti patterned girl Hannah her first 'big girl' haircut.

It is so good to see Gunny holding her own against Hannah, who is quite the confident pup! Gunny is the gentle soul who would rather say 'Uncle' then challenge another dog. Gunny is really beginning to interact with other dogs now instead of just Daisy and my crew. Still tentative at times, but every new social interaction has been a great learning experience for her.  :+)

A chilly but sunny day brought a visitor for play time.

Happily, one of my guardian homes is right here in town and we get to visit Hannah McCall quite often. The first time she came to meet Gunny, it was not a friendly visit at all! We were all so disappointed as we had hoped they would thoroughly enjoy each other because they are so similar in age.

However today was a totally different experience! They took to each other immediately and played chase, dove through tunnels, dug together under the playhouse and just had the very best time! Golly, was I a happy camper to see this!

Gunny missed her social interaction time as a youngster due to her breeder's illness. I knew this ahead of time but felt with lots of exposure and slow interactions, Gunny would learn to accept strange dogs and people. We have made great strides and today was the frosting on the cake! :+)

Hannah, the black and white parti is a social butterfly - nothing makes her happier than to engage with new dogs or people. She is the girl I kept back from the Charlotte x Rocky mating. Having a girl that is so confident and friendly like Hannah, provides Gunny, who is learning to embrace a more confident persona, a furry friend to lean on and learn from.

They had a ball and I know Gunny came in after all that playing and headed for a soft bed to take a nap.  :+)

They are very close in age and size.

Hannah typically comes through the tunnel like a bullet, but Gunny was waiting for her this time!

Wrestling like they were littermates. They are not.

Whose turn to run??

Looks like it is Gunny's turn.

Chase, chase and more chasing.

A friendly duo takes a break. 

This outing is huge for Gunny and has proven to me that she can and will adapt well. I will continue to expose and train her until the right guardian family comes along.