It seems that Chloe is really starting to like Scout a lot! Yeah, she humps him a lot and I don't think it is a dominance thing more like I like as you a friend thing as one of the canine behavior books cites. Scout doesn't get upset at all about it and he has in the past just once. But it usually starts with him on the ground stretching and smiling and Chloe comes over. Enough of the humping that isn't the reason why I writing this. It is actually watching her trying to start play with him and that was a rare thing. In the past she was tolerating him and now she is acting different.

Sure when there is an object in play, she'll go for it and take it out of his mouth and he will not fuss over it. All it takes is one growl from her and he backs off. However, put ice in the picture, it goes the other way.

Today, Scout will be laying in the recliner and Chloe will go up to him and start sniffing his snout then they start mouthing each other and she starts doing a play bow. Scout gets all excited and starts to get in zoomie mode and he spastically runs and tries to chase her and then it reverses. From there they face off and play fight.

The overall length of time of play goes from a minute to three minutes.

I think this is change of heart from Chloe is because we have been leaving Scout loose in the house with her while we're gone for 1-2 hours. Yes, that is two Jacks loose in the house! So I guess she sees a different a dog while we're gone. The more and more we do it, the more we see changes. I guess because Scout acts differently when he is loose as he is not as edgey I suppose. The more new experiences I can give him the more he gets stable.