Little Mason

A little close up of our little Mason the Chihuahua we seemed to have adopted. Found in a rest stop Sunday week.

He's an older chap we've decided, probably around 10 years old but unlike most Chis he doesn't have that massively aggressive little dog syndrome. His best friend "in the whole wide world" is my wife. He is in love with her. He adores her.

He's also getting used to where home is - he is actually pleased when we turn into our cul-de-sac and sees the house again. Immense amount of pleasure when he sees his new home each time.

But Mason and JimBob, Chihuahua vs Pit Bull. Two strong personalities and frankly, not ideal house mates. They could not be more different. One a working dog that has an aggressive streak, one an aggressive toy dog that lives on a sofa.

So the first few days were difficult, but then on the Friday (he'd been with us 5 days by then) Mason and JimBob became great friends. And for whatever reason, Mason likes to play Anal Rape (as we've called it) with the Pit Bull. It's the strangest thing we've seen - a male Chi trying to mount a male Pit Bill....

However there has been contention over the food bowl. We naively thought that they'd sort it out themselves, but Mason still being a pushy Chi decided to push it too far last night and under-estimated what an angry Pit will do.

In this case Mason was thrown across the kitchen. JimBob was instantly 'defeated' by me, whilst my wife consoled Mason. JB was locked in his bedroom for the night without his goodnight story, and I then proceeded to check Mason over, and wipe the blood off him. He had a puncture wound above the eye. But he cleaned up nicely.

We are gutted by this. We brought him into our home and JB beat him up. And poor old Mason was now terrified of JB.

Today was difficult. JB was in a mood all day until he apologized mid afternoon to me. He sought me out for a cuddle.

Mason on the other hand was at work with my wife and having a ball of a time.

The evening has ended with them being friends again, and a game of Anal Rape.

But the food bowls are going in different directions. Out goes grazing, now we're gonna have a proper dinner time for each dog. Tonight JB will be starved a little to make him respect his food time. Mason has access to a room that JB doesn't so he can graze, but again, he'll be given a food time tomorrow as well.