OH, your dog reminds me so much of the sweet gentle dog that was at the rabbit rescue. His name was Ben, he has passed now, but I have never seen such a gentle dog around tons of scurrying little bunnies. Amazingly these breeds are hunters, but he had zero interest in hunting bunnies. He really liked being around them. I have told this story before, but I’ll tell it again. One day we were extra busy cleaning bunny cages and so forth, and we weren’t throwing Ben’s toy for him to chase like we normally would. Poor Ben was just desperate for attention, but patiently quietly waited. A bunny in one pen took a special interest in Ben. The bunny would jump, and do binkies and follow him (well as much as a bunny can within a pen)
Anyway, Ben got a gleam in his eye and ran off, back he came with throw toy in his mouth, and he promptly went right over the bunny’s pen, and dropped it down in right smack in front of the bunny. Ben looked at the bunny, and the bunny looked at the toy, sniffed it through the bars, and then they just stared at each other . Quite a quandary. It was the cutest thing ever!!