My favorite thing to do with Murphy lately is wrestle.
Murphy was my first dog. I knew nothing about canine behavior or body language, and her size intimidated me. One of the biggest lessons Murphy has taught me is confidence.
For 5 years I never got down on the floor on her level and just wrestled with her. She's very big, her canines are an inch long. She is very intimidating to most people.
I wrestled with her for the first time around 2 months ago. Just on the ground puppy kind of wrestling. It was the funnest thing of my life. Five years of working on bite inhibition, and appropriate play, I wish I would have had more confidence in my dog and myself.
To other people, it would be so obvious that my dog and I would be able to play like this, but I wasn't confident in my dog, and especially myself.
We had so much fun. We wrestle all the time now.