1 year ago...

Cloe stole my glove... But she gave it back. Good puppy!
Added: Of course, "stealing" has a different meaning in the legal world of canines.

Sisters inseparable.

Penny and Ava, Golden Doodles, same litter, same parents, 11 months-old.

First visit to the dog park.

It's Gillie, the 10 month-old Scottish Terrier.

Dakota is 5 months old.

Luna.

Happy mensiversary, Dakota.

Exactly 4 months-old today!

“When we study play in dogs, we study ourselves.”

From a May 19 Washington Post article, "In dogs’ play, researchers see honesty and deceit, perhaps something like morality".

Take those two dogs. That yogalike pose is known as a “play bow,” and in the language of play it’s one of the most commonly used words. It’s an instigation and a clarification, a warning and an apology. Dogs often adopt this stance as an invitation to play right before they lunge at another dog; they also bow before they nip (“I’m going to bite you, but I’m just fooling around”) or after some particularly aggressive roughhousing (“Sorry I knocked you over; I didn’t mean it.”). All of this suggests that dogs have a kind of moral code — one long hidden to humans until a cognitive ethologist named Marc Bekoff began to crack it.

Play bow prodigy, Jesse: And an expert at dog play — a seasoned veteran... Zeus!

Over at Governor Nelson State Park...

... we hiked in the woods, looking for new green shoots, leaves, and flowers of early May. "What if we run into Cooper again? Wouldn't that be cool?" And it was!

Puppies meet; puppies play.

It's Mocha and Sweeny!

An Entlebucher Mountain Dog puppy named Sweeny.

She was bred to herd cattle in the Swiss Alps.

Trouble, the Siberian Husky.

I don't know how she got her name. He seemed perfectly trouble-free to me. Trouble lives with Mocha, the Siberian Husky puppy. Puppies are always trouble. Mostly in a good way.