Soft Spot

Any of you who have had the pleasure of meeting Sophie know that she can be a teeny tiny bit of a barker.  For instance, she may bark at a car passing by....or a fly buzzing by the window.  She also has the tendency to overreact to anyone walking through the front door and tries to eat anything that threatens her food supply.  However, when it comes to the kids, there is no limit to her patience. She protects them any time we get in a tickle fight.  She doesn't make a peep when they try to remove her ears using only brute strength.  She doesn't even jump on them when they get home from school.  While I was pretty impressed with those behaviors, I would never have guessed how far her patience would go for Everett.  For some reason that defies all the laws of being a Jack Russell, when Everett goes for Sophie's food bowl, she doesn't attempt to end him, she simply eats everything as fast as she can before he can touch it..  To test whether it was him or if she had just turned over a kinder, gentler leaf, I went near her food bowl after he left....considering she pulled a switchblade on me, I guess it was just him.