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July 15, 2014

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Heartless Aztec said...: I don't know the vernacular of Wisconsin (Norwegian?), but in the south we call that wrasslin'.; 7/15/14, 11:59 AM
lemondog said...: Ha, ha..cute!; 7/15/14, 12:07 PM
Hagar said...: Fat dogs.; 7/15/14, 12:27 PM
Original Mike said...: Give, yet?; 7/15/14, 12:43 PM
Nonapod said...: My parent's black lab is notmally very mellow and extremely good-natured, but if you lightly grab her side near armpit a few times she'll go into a kind of bonkers-play-mode, circling around you at high speed.; 7/15/14, 1:22 PM
lemondog said...: ..you lightly grab her side near armpit...

Ticklish?; 7/15/14, 4:46 PM
H said...: Here's a review of a book (Citizen Canine by Marc Bekoff) that looks at evidence that dog's have a "moral sense". One piece of evidence that you illustrate here is "reciprocity" in dog play. One dog takes a turn as the aggressor; then the other dog takes a turn.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/in-dogs-play-researchers-see-honesty-and-deceit-perhaps-something-like-morality/2014/05/19/d8367214-ccb3-11e3-95f7-7ecdde72d2ea_story.html; 7/16/14, 6:33 AM