Some days when Pandolf has a particularly long and tempting nose we play Catch The Snout
He thinks it’s a fun game when he sees me coming, because then I’ll change course and pretend I was reaching out for some innocent scritching and he’s like ha. I know what you were about to do. But I’m a swift and astute dog and you can’t defeat me and now you have to scritch my ear
When I do defeat him though, it’s a tragedy. He’s too polite to try to free his snout in any way, and he always looks like he has no idea how to react to this completely unheard-of calamity
I let him go and he jumps away and shakes himself looking vexed, but then immediately brings his nose back within arm’s reach for another round of Catch the Snout