That Pumpkin is a clever girl

Pumpkin brought a giant, Arkansas-sized bone with her. See it there next to her on the floor?

I think Leda figured that since that little pup managed to drag that huge bone all the way up a hill at Leda's house, she deserved to take it with her to California.

Darby got sort of interested in that big, different-smelling bone and ambled over to take a look.  This was on Sunday when the girls were still a little nervous around each other, and Pumpkin often did the "I'm just a puppy, lesser than you" pose whenever Darby looked at her. 

Notice WHERE she struck up the pose--right in front of the bone!  That clever girl managed to show polite puppy-getting-to-know-an-older-dog manners, while at the same time protecting her prize.

Here, she is still keeping her head lower than Darby's as a polite puppy would in this circumstance, while continuing to protect her prize!

Poor Darby never did get a sniff of that bone.

But, she did get a good sniff of Pumpkin!

I'm glad we don't communicate largely by way of our olfactory senses!