Annie And Tim Get Their Saturday Morning Chew On....together!

Anyone who is familiar with my blog knows that our recently adopted foster dog Timken is a very special boy. When we made the decision to help Annie out in her time of need, we had to think about how this might impact Timken and what steps we would need to take to insure he and the new girl would be successful living in the same house together until Annie gets adopted. Slow introductions were a must. Everything went fairly smoothly but as can happen with Tim being a bit awkward, Annie and Tim needed some time out from each other in the beginning hours. This is not faulting either dog, there was a lot new for everyone, it was just the best way to let Tim calm down while Annie had a chance to get her bearings and settle in.

I am happy to report Tim and Annie are doing wonderful together now. In fact they are close to the same age and they both still have that puppy play in them.

Today I saw Annie chewing on a toy and so I decided to get the toy box out and see if there were a few things she would be interested in chewing. Tim was very curious about all this and so I grabbed the camera and video recorder and sat down to supervise their interactions and to snap a few gems for the blog.

Annie and Tim were excellent together and neither of them did any guarding or even a lip curl when the other would walk by. In fact they even took turns chewing on the same toys. This made foster mom very happy for them both to have the experience of this companionship on a slow Saturday

Annie says, "so many toys...so little time".

"Found it! This is what I was looking for".

Tim says, "mom why is this thing pulled out and everything a mess?"

Annie tries a few things out, nylabone

double pointed deer antler...notice Tim now has the nylabone:)

Trying out different chewing positions....

Then they moved...together..."Hey! there are all sorts of things to chew on in this place."

Annie says "I think this is a really good way for me to clean my toofies".

Tim has never been interested in this until today, I guess Annie being here is helping him to try new things...

Foster mom, thanks for all the good things to gnaw on. That was really fun!