I decided to go round the back to the kennels, after my encounter with GorgeousJawMan, to spend some time with my Max.
It's not like I had anything better to do than get to know my new best friend.
During our conversation, I noticed that across the filed there were two cages that were large, with toys inside. I wondered if they were training pens or arenas for dog agilities or—
I had been so engrossed in staring at the cages that I hadn't noticed GorgeousJawMan taking Max out of his kennel and bringing him round to my side. Max had his front paws resting on GorgeousJawMan's bent arm, standing on his back legs and was panting and wagging his tail at the attention he was getting. GorgeousJawMan was solely focused on the dog, but he was talking to me when he said "You can take him into the pen if you want."
Oh, I'd rather take you… against a wall, on the floor, in my bed...
"What?"
He turned towards me then, his face level with mine as he was crouching down.
"You can take Max into the pen and play with him. Its OK we don't mind. I think Max would love to spend time with his new mummy, wouldn't you, big boy?" he cooed to my dog and I swear the little shit actually gave me puppy eyes, saying Please Mummy. Play with me. And let this man come with us to play, too.
So I agreed and we brought him round to the cage/pen things. I'm a sucker for puppy eyes. GorgeousJawMan unlocked it for us and was about to leave when my partner in crime whimpered over to him and used those puppy eyes twice in ten minutes.
"Oh, Max. You go play with Mummy and I'll see you soon." But my dog wasn't having that. My goodness, you would think we were telling him off, by the loudness of those whimpers. GorgeousJawMan looked to me and I'm not ashamed to admit I may have whimpered and gave him puppy eyes too.
It worked.