I was responding to emails yesterday evening in my office when blind Briggs and blind Austin — the two Beagles who arrived recently from Atlanta Beagle Rescue in Georgia — began a wrestling match behind my chair. Briggs and Austin have become the best of friends and roughhouse like this multiple times throughout the day. It’s very quiet — no barking at each other, no tough-guy growling — yet it still has a certain intensity to it. Watching these two go at each other brings to mind a combination of Japanese sumo and American high-school wrestling.
Here is yet more proof that being disabled doesn’t keep animals from doing the fun, everyday things that a "normal" animal gets to enjoy. Briggs was born with vision but lost his sight to glaucoma. Austin was born blind. But as you’ll see, they both know how to pin the other guy to the mat!
As the wrestling match continued, I picked up the video camera off my desk and started shooting from my desk chair. The entire thing lasted nearly five minutes, including an encore, but here’s a clip with about 90 seconds of the action:
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