As I mentioned previously, Gully was a bit listless at first, but he’s come around.  He’s bonded with me now, trusts me and all that.  Still doesn’t play with toys or anything, or have any interest in fetching, but he likes hanging around me, and is always looking for me when I’m not around (so I’m told).

He’s very quiet; I’ve barely heard him make a noise.  When a series of emergency vehicles went by one night, he howled along with them, which was kind of amusing.  Other than that, the only noise I’ve heard him make happened the other night; I was petting him, and apparently he was full of energy or something, because he launched himself into some kind of game, which entailed him spreading his front paws out in front of him as if it pounce mode, barking, then taking off running away from me, at which point he’d stop, turn around, get into pounce mode again, bark, and run back toward me.  He did this a couple times, then must have got tired out and went and layed down.  This is apparently known as a “play bow.” I don’t know how to trigger it, but I’d love to capture it on film, because, man, it was *weird.* 

Speaking of dogs, check out this blog post by Jonathan Carroll.