Small leap of faith here,,,

Came home, usual stuff, Elb’s needed reassured and fed. Cosmos; same, and noogies to make sure he knows I’m still bigger than him.   Goin’bout me evening slow-down and Da came up (I stopped by but his four-wheeler was gone,, Carry on)    Just chit-chattin’  and he told me that he had been up earlier and spent a minute with Cosmos (he won’t admit, but he likes the rug-rat) then went to check on his brother.   On the way back, saw that Cos had slipped his collar,,, TOTAL CONFUSION on poor puppers mindium,,,   Didn’t know what to do, so just stood there, till dad put the collar back on.

Time to take a leap of faith.   Needed to mow too.    Took the lead, unclipped it and let him loose while I was in sight.   Started the mower up and it was ‘game on’.   Cos was playing tag-a-long, nipping my heels (till he managed a really GOOD nip,,, and my reaction shut down that game.   ).   A few passes of the yard, and he started getting an idea of this new ‘boring’ game Daddy is playing so he started probing ahead, and checking into bushes and under the porch and generally being “Dawg”,,,,   

Carry on,,,,

mowing done, leave him off and see what he does.   

Of course, about that time, ELbee came home.   Elbs LOVES rolling fresh cut grass,,,   

Dio watches from porch,,,, Elbs rolling in exstatic frenzy,,, Cosmos starts stalking,,, Dio watches from porch,,, THE RUSH,,, Elbs bolts for the bush, Cos on his tail, Dio Snaps out ‘COSMOS! NO!’ and Cos listens not,,, But I’m watching… Elbs wasn’t doing his fright flight,,, He was staying just out of reach and running under things that Cos, being inexperianced Pupper that he is, doesn’t know how to do the over, under, around thing.    Elbs is ‘beating him up’ without laying a claw on him.    A minute of that and Cos came out of the woods ‘where its safer’ and just watched the treeline.     I was able to call him back to the porch and put him back on the lead for a bit, so I could get a shower without worry, but as soon as I was done and redressed, let him free again.

NOw, Elbs is laying on the ‘Cat’ end of the porch, and Cos is roaming around being a little bored, but doing nothing more than going over and giving Elbs a sniff or two then goin’ to look for something else to get into.

one done,,, two to go.   And of course those two are the Matriarch and her footman.   Thats likely going to a bit harder sell.   BUT, they gotta work this shit out.   I’ll keep the run handy for a bit longer yet, as there are still times where I want to know where he is.  He’s still very young and this can be a hostile neighborhood in a sense (Cuz’s PACK)   And he doesn’t have the confidence that Voodoo had.   Even a little timidity shown to a pack and the carnage is a second away.   I have no desire to go shooting dogs, but if I am defending MINE, I’ll make that AR sound like its a select fire, full auto M16A1 from the Nam era.  If the PACK plays nice, Dio will play nice: don’t let that table turn, or Dio will have to show some of his skills again.  No one wants me to go down that road,,,,

Gonna call it an early night tonight.  Long brutish day at the J.O.B. felt closer to a Muhnday than Friday: thats all behind me now,,, I has a lead free pupper laying at my feet with his head on my foot, and no squalling kittehs about it.  So far so good, fingers crossed.

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