Knitting In Public

We’ve said “good-bye” to the boys, but I haven’t updated any photos of the girls.

Google.  (I know it’s hard to tell all the black & white ones apart, especially just from a face shot.) She’s going to look just like her mom, Lucy.

The puppies are growing, and are ‘catching on’ to housebreaking. They play with each other every chance they get, sometimes fairly aggressively. They are chewing everything teething, and we’re trying to deal with that. They get excited and anticipate dinner and water, so they end up making you spill because they jump all over you as you try to put it on the floor!

Emma (formerly Clover). She has become Chris’s dog. They have bonded and she responds more readily to him. She is showing signs of being a fantastic hunter. She was always bigger than the other puppies, and she has continued that trend - she is quite the bruiser. She is currently 15 pounds (to Google’s 12). Both puppies are incredibly fast! They can already keep up with Lucy (who I have thought is one of the fastest dogs I’ve ever seen), and their legs are so much shorter! I’m betting they will be faster than mom in no time.

In two weeks, they leave us for “imprinting.” They will be exposed to the scents that they will be hunting in later life. They will also meet up with at least 3 of their siblings, and possibly the entire litter will be sent for imprinting and will be reunited. I’m so curious to find out if they ‘recognize’ each other, and the trainer said it would be interesting to see the different characteristics of the puppies. I hope to be able to give you an update on that as well!

Off to do some work, and hopefully some knitting. Not a lot of that going on around here right now!

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