Burg:

I think the thing about strong puppy is... you DON'T call attention to it. You just recognize it... and get it out of puppy-hood ASAP, without making it feel bad that it hit puppy hood for a moment.

Unlike a mother, who sooths the puppy, turns him on his back, scratches his tummy, picks it up in her arms, takes it to bed, and cuddles it to death. No sex is happening with a puppy.

It is unlike a female bunny. Strong or weak, bunnies must be soothed, for they are nervous creatures by habit. Afterall, dam near any predator will eat a bunny.

Some bunnies bounce back much faster, depending on quickly they are soothed. If a bunny is being soothed by a wolf... the minute you stop quivering, I'm going to eat you... well... it does a bunny no good to be soothed.

I'm thinking 'puppy' is not a good descriptor. But that's just me. Too childlike. Men... no. They just, mentally... can't go there.

What if I said... Lion with a thorn in his foot? Make more sense than strong puppy?