finally... 2o/2o

Okay, it has been forever since Dylan has had nice contacts at a trial... this weekend at Manhattan, he had gorgeous contacts in Std all weekend -- woohoo! This has been killing us lately and both of his Standard runs were gorgeous. He got a 1st place on Sun... he should have Qed on Sat, but mom didn't tell him where to go so we got 1 refusal -- ooops. He was a good boy. JWW on Sun was nice... he was running beautifully and got all the technical stuff -- he dropped the triple which was giving many dogs a hard time... so I don't care. Sat his JWW run was bad, but 3 of 4 good runs... I'll take that!

Rumor - 19 weeks

It looks like Rumor hasn't done much growing the past couple of weeks.... so I'm expecting a growth spirt in the near future.

Today he was 20 lbs and about 16 or 16.5" tall.

He has been such a good puppy.... last night we played agility a little bit.... we did some 2o/2o work, ran through a few tunnels and ran over a low a-frame... it was fun!

4 months old - over 17 weeks

Rumor is right around 16" tall... it's tough to get an accurate measurement from him. He also weighs about 19 lbs.

1st time swimming!

Rumor is 16 weeks old today! He is over 15" tall and 17 lbs. We have been e-mailing on the Super Natural chat to compare pups. Solar (Daisy's pup) seems to be pretty comparable to Rumor in terms of weight and size. Wonder (Linda's pup) and Phantom are about an inch taller and definitely weigh more. It sounds like Trudy is pretty small, but she is also not a large female.
I took Dylan and Rumor to the beach today! It was the 2nd time Rumor has ever been to the beach... and he actual went in and started swimming. I wore shorts this time so I could wade into the water - last time he didn't really go in at all... but he was swimming up a storm and running all around in the water last night.
This is about as "stacked" as he gets... he won't stand still when I try to stack him on my own. Unfortunately, the ground is sloping so it isn't really the best place to try and look at his structure... oh well, soon enough we will learn "stand" :)

Dylan has been SUCH a good/tolerant big brother. Sometimes I wish he would correct Rumor a bit... but maybe that will come with age. Dylan is *so* gentle when they play together... he is way better than I ever thought he would be.

Rumor has been doing a tiny bit of agility... we are going to have a fantastic start line if it kills me - we have been playing the "ready game" and he is getting very good at it! He also started to do an automatic down on a table that I put on the ground. He loves tunnels and has run over a very low A-Frame a few times.... he is a happy boy and really likes to play this game already :)