Mischief Makers

Nolan and our neighbor’s dog Lightening (read more about Lightening and his Thunder brother here); (Thunder has since moved away with our neighbors daughter but he visits regularly) have gotten to be fast friends since Nolan arrived in January.  We introduced them right away but Nolan hasn’t had much interest in anything but going to the potty and chewing on stuff up until the past two weeks.  On Tuesday Nolan and Lightening spent the better part of an hour running up and down the fence line between our yards talking to each other in their own special barking language.  Of course we were thrilled as Nolan slept like a log that night only asking to get up once to pee.  Yesterday we had a snow day after a whopping 9 inches of snow fell in Central Ohio.  Nolan whined off and on all day to go outside and ever time he got there I could tell he was looking for Lightening while pretending that he needed to pee.  Of course I heard Lightening standing at the neighbors sliding glass doors barking to go out so I called my neighbor and told her that Nolan wanted to know if Lightening could come out to play.  She laughed and said Lightening had been barking off and on to go out for the same reason and said she would send him out. Well long story short those two hatched a plot and in unison starting digging to get under fence in the same spot on opposite sides.  Believe it or not little Mr. Nolan instigated the entire escapade and they both continued to dig until I finally made Nolan come back inside with me.  He wasn’t happy but he did sleep good again last night.  I guess it is better that they are friendly with each other rather than the opposite as Lightening could eat Nolan for lunch.