Another Update!

Samson is doing great on obedience.  Just now I dangled a piece of MEAT in front of his nose, and he did NOT take it until I told him to "take it."  Good boy!

He and Jake are getting along great now.  Today they spent about 40 minutes in the truck together while I was draining diesel fuel out of an old tank in the basement of the farmhouse.  I was only supervising them about maybe 25-30 minutes of that time, and I wouldn't have really needed to watch them.  They didn't want to get out of the truck (door was open) and they got along great.  They love playing "bitey-face" with eachother which is very fun to watch :).

Yesterday Jake's breeder came down to visit Tim with Jake's (half-sister?) Guardian.  She is very sweet, very quiet, and Samson loved playing with her.  She was very protective of her food, however, hehe.  Samson is a bit aggressive in playing with bigger dogs, it's something I'll have to watch.  Now that he has learned that Jake won't ever hurt him (took quite a few interactions) he doesn't get mean, but I think he doesn't feel safe because of his size.  I'm not sure if it's just rough play or him being "mean" to look tougher.  Nobody gets hurt at all, though, and he's "friends" after all is said and done.  Samson is VERY excited to see Jake when I pull up to the farmhouse.

He lost 4 teeth yesterday, 2 molars when I tossed him a sock, he grabbed it, I pulled...and out came 2 molars.  Mom said she saw him chewing one up later on.  Then he lost an upper canine.  Today he lost his other upper canine, his last canine to lose.  It came out a bit early I suspect, I think it caught in something he was chewing on, because he bled quite a bit.  Blood all over the dining room floor =/.  He did not seem to be in any distress, however.  I have a toy in the shape of a bone that you soak in water and then freeze to help with teething.  It seems to make his mouth feel better - at the very least he enjoys chewing on it :).

Some weird formatting problem is messing with the alignment of the pictures, but oh well...not a big deal.