Man & Man's Best Friend

I thought I'd start with a photo.

While to most of you, this doesn't seem like anything out of the ordinary, it actually is. This is not my bathtub. This is my co-worker EW's bathtub. Why am I bathing Ilse in someone else's home? Well, she didn't get muddy.

You may recall from earlier posts that Ilse and EW's dog Boomer have become pretty good friends, as seen below.

(Ilse is about the same size as Boomer now)

With them being good friends, EW and I decided to have a play date, they could run around, chase one another and have a good time. I arrived at EW's house and Ilse has already caught on to where we are, so she gets pretty excited and takes some effort to calm her down. Once she is calm and settled, we allowed the two to go in the backyard and play. All was going great running here, running there, plenty of excitement! Then Boomer decides he has to take care of some "business". He finds a spot and tries to go start "filing his paperwork" when Ilse comes over and starts pestering him a bit. Boomer stops, plays a bit more, then remembers, "This report is due, I need to do this now".

Seeing that Ilse won't leave him alone, I call her over to me, and she comes more/less right away. Boomer finishes up, and we let the two at it again. After a little while longer, Boomer decides it's time to take a pee and Ilse seems not too interested, so we decided not to worry about it. However, once Boomer had lifted his leg, Ilse appeared to be thinking "Ohhh, that seems interesting!" and headed on over. At which point she crawled under his stomach and placed her head right into his stream of pee.

She can be quite the puppy at times! This didn't seem to bother her at all and she just walked on over to the door and looked at us like, "Why are you guys looking at me so funny?", meanwhile you can clearly where Boomer had marked his territory. But hey, if their friendship can get through that, I think they will be alright!