Puppies’ Love

by Chris Robinson

A few weeks ago, my Chesapeake Bay Retriever Bo spent the night with Craig Klein, his professional trainer, at his kennel after a hunt test. When I arrived to pick him up the following morning, Craig went to get him. In the same kennel section, he had five just weaned Chesapeake puppies and a Labrador pup. During the night, the pups managed to escape from their run and they had invaded Bo’s. When the trainer turned the corner, all he saw were the puppies in Bo’s run and none of the puppies were moving.

Craig’s initial thought was “Oh my God, the pups got out last night, got into Bo’s kennel and he killed them.” His heart in his throat and a sick feeling in the pit of his stomach, he ran to Bo’s kennel door. The commotion woke up every dog in the kennel area including the pups, all of which except the Lab for whom there must not have been room because he was half under the kennel gate and half in the gutter just outside the gate, were snuggled up to and sleeping with Bo. The Lab puppy did manage, however, to get his head next to Bo’s muzzle. Apparently the pups had gotten cold and lonely once they escaped from their run and were looking for a warm pal. As it turned out, they couldn’t have made a better choice for a friend.

Of course, once they had cuddled up to him and snoozed with him, in Bo’s mind, they belonged to him. So, when the pups had been collected by Craig and his daughters, Bo declined to go into his crate in my truck. Instead, he insisted on accompanying Craig and the girls to the pups’ outdoor pen and not until they were secure in that pen was he willing to come back to the truck and jump into his crate. A puppy’s love affects everyone, including other dogs. So it’s not hard to understand how we humans are such suckers for puppies’ affections.

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