by Where does Solo get sheep lessons?
Coach is 6 yrs old. Is he too lod to start?
--
Mike
Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
G. Marx
> (and yes, they are from two excellent Open dogs with hip checks and eye
> scores) that I got to *** today after Solo's sheep lesson. They're
> just at the age where they stop looking like hamsters and start acting
> like dogs, but they're still little enough to hold all of them at the
> same time, so it was the perfect time to see them.
> Imagine a lapful of little squirmy black and white puppies with funny
> crooked stripes down their faces and folded-up baby ears and these little
> ***y weeny black tails the size of my pinky with a bright snowy tip.
> Their eyes are open and they're becoming tiny pioneers, toddling here and
> there except for one little girl who wanted to stay in my lap and chase my
> ponytail. One has a half-white face with a rakish black patch over the
> other eye, the others are classically marked with varying amounts of
> white. The single male of the litter is almost twice as big as his
> sisters and quite the explorer. They are still small enough to pick up
> with one hand.
> The part I liked best was watching them play with each other, making
> kittenish mewling yips, play growls, stalking each other, pouncing,
> wrestling, tumbling over and over.
> I want a puppy!
> I'm not getting a puppy, so those of you who belong to the Melanie Cannot
> Ever Have a Second Dog Never Ever Lest the Apocalypse Come Club can stop
> hyperventilating now. But damn, they were pretty freaking cute.
> -- Melanie and Solo (is that PUPPY BREATH I smell on you?) the Red
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> Melanie Lee Chang | Border Collies are
> Departments of Anthropology and Biology | phylogenetically bizarre.
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