Resting Lab answers a nosy foster puppy by throwing his paws up

Winston, a yellow Labrador, was stretched out on a bone-print dog bed when a foster puppy named Snoopy set up shop at his head. Snoopy nosed and pawed at his face and collar, and Winston’s reply took a while to arrive. Christine, who fosters puppies at home, joked that Snoopy “was just making sure Winston’s alive!”

Winston never gets up or walks off. He stays put, paws raised, while Snoopy keeps at it and another foster puppy lies by the pillar behind them.

Winston has done puppy duty before. In February 2025, with a litter of 18-day-old pups in her care, Christine wrote, “I’m really trying to get Winston to be the puppy nanny I know he can be 😅”

Meet Winston

• Winston came home in spring 2021. In her welcome post, Christine wrote that he “enjoys a good sit” and that sitting is “his default position”.

• She started fostering for a Phoenix rescue in 2022, and wrote that she had fostered “40 puppies/dogs in 2023 alone”.

• For the record, she has also written that Winnie, as she calls him, “has enough energy for five dogs!”

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The American Kennel Club notes, “Even when older dogs and puppies get along great, they still need breaks from time to time.”

Snoopy’s last move is to clamber farther over Winston’s head and shoulder. Winston stays exactly where he is.

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