Drop Kick Porter

Porter has a huge head. It's a half inch wider than mine and he barely weighs 50 pounds. It's so hard that once when teaching him a trick called "sit pretty" he jumped for the treat in my hand and accidentally head butted me in the mouth. The collision chipped one of my front teeth.

Porter looks physically tough and he is. His feelings, however, are easily hurt. The other day while at the dog run with Ben, another owner was throwing a ball for all the dogs. After a while, the game resulted in slobbery, disgusting balls, so--like most people in that situation--she resorted to kicking the balls to avoid having to touch the wet mess. She went to kick the ball at the same time Porter darted down to grab it and her foot jammed Porter in the mouth.

He started bleeding but initially stood there as stoic as always, seemingly oblivious to the pain. Within a minute, though, an intense hurt expression came over his face as if he was asking her, 'why did you do that to me?' She felt horrible and when we ran into her the next day she continued to apologize. Porter had forgotten about the incident by then, but she was still limping.