Easter with a Siberian Husky and a Danish Swedish Farmdog

From Tuesday last week, until yesterday, so the entire Easter, I've been at Mads family's cottage, with Mads parents, Mads, Scott (Danish Swedish Farmdog) and Monica's dog Noor (Siberian Husky). The dogs were a bit skeptical towards each other in the beginning but before the Easter was over they were the best of friends!

First day at the cottage, the dogs are not sure about each other and keeps a respectful distance. Here both are showing calming signals. Scott is sniffing the ground and Noor is turning her head away.

Noor being about 10 months old had a harder time acting "adult and calm", she wanted Scott to play with her. But he was not so keen since she is more than twice his size.. Scott prefers to play with people..

Scott is telling Noor to stop playing so roughly with him and she listens.. for the time being..

Scott prefers to play with people and he loves to chase snowballs. Here Merete has just thrown a snowball for him to chase, Noor that saw that Scott was really excited about something that Merete did, also ran to Merete. But she really didn't see the point in chasing snowballs...

They started becoming friends the second day, which was the day me and Merete went down on the ice on the lake and played with them (the two pictures above). We had Noor on a long leash, we didn't know if we could trust her to stay with us at this point.

Out walking on the ice the 3rd day at the cottage.

 The 3rd day at the cottage the dogs had become such good friends that they could even eat out of the same bowl, and they were both really careful to make sure the other dog understood they had no ill intentions. That day I took the dogs for two long walks, first just me and the dogs in the woods behind the cottage, and then in the evening, a walk on the frozen lake with Mads. That night they dogs were so tired they rested next to each other on the couch. When I tried to get Noor with me to bed she was so tired she slept in my arms!

Two very tired dogs!

Noor sleeping in my arms.

On the 4th day the dogs were the best of friends and that continued for the rest of our stay at the cottage. By that point we were also so sure of Noor that we allowed her to be off leash when we were down on the lake. Below are some of the pictures from the last couple of days at the cottage.