Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks

Pugs have literally been bred to be pampered. According to Wikipedia:

“Pugs were kept by [Chinese] royalty and were pampered and spoiled, and the expectation of such treatment is a characteristic that seems to remain with them to this day.”

Our Pug puppy, Hobo seems to be no exception to these characteristics. He often flips on to his back and stretches out as if demanding his right to a belly rub. Well it appears that the Boomer has learned to take a page from young Hobo’s book of how to make humans pamper you. Boomer (a hunting breed) has never just flipped over and asked for a belly rub before but he’s done that several times this past week. I guess he recognizes a good thing when he sees it and learned to follow the puppy’s lead.