I took Atticus up to spend the weekend with his “Grandmother and Uncle Seamus*.” While I was there I took this quick video of them playing.

It always makes me laugh how Atticus treats other dogs. He’s 80lbs, so in general is extremely capable of taking care of himself, and potentially capable of causing great harm. However he always adjusts his play style to meet the other dog. If it’s a puppy or a small stature dog of any type, he’s always very gentle, soft mouthed, sort of lays around like he is in this video. But if it’s a dog of his size or large enough to really play with, then he *really* plays with them (assuming he’s in the mood). He’ll run around, chase, be chased, rough house, all that good stuff.

But also with the little dogs, after he’s had enough, he knows how to exercise his dominance and politely tell them to back off, like he does at the end of this video where he just stands up and half chases Seamus off so he can have some space for a few minutes.

He really is the perfect dog for me, as some friends have noted, we have similar personalities. We both like to go with the flow and have a good time. He lays around when I want to lay around, he runs outside to play when I take him out.

I’m definitely going to miss him this weekend.

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* Seamus is my mom’s dog, she decided that means he is Atticus’s uncle