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Colliespam
Jul. 2nd, 2009 04:16 pmI've been spending the last few days, when not at work or dance lessons, bonding with He Who One Day May Have Aspirations To Colliehood, the Excessively Snouted One. Such bliss. (Like Chaos, yeah).
He's sweet, calm, persistent and very intelligent. For instance, he has had very few housebreaking incidents, given his age and attendant lack of complete bladder control. Never having worn a leash, he more or less leashbroke himself and was approximating a decent heel on our first walk, just from seeing the rest of the pack do it. He demonstrated understanding of 'sit' and complied after I'd given and demonstrated the command and rewarded...once. A day later, he sat on first command.
I love the dog. So do the rest of the pack, who are touchingly tender with him. The beast has grown even since I got him. He seems a little thin to me, so I'm trying to feed him up slowly as he sprouts like a weed. His injured eye is healing nicely; apparently his cornea was not scratched, and the irritation and cloudiness is almost gone. So I can make out his eye color now...the injured right is mostly blue, with some brown on the inner iris; the left is mostly brown with a rim of blue on the inside. His eyes are almost symmetrical in reverse; it's really cool.
He also has a dark patch on his back that, seen from the proper angle, is distinctly heart-shaped. I don't know if his adult coat will obscure this completely, but awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
And speaking of coat, Coba has grown in his full adult glory. Holy cats, the fur.
( pack woof woof )
He's sweet, calm, persistent and very intelligent. For instance, he has had very few housebreaking incidents, given his age and attendant lack of complete bladder control. Never having worn a leash, he more or less leashbroke himself and was approximating a decent heel on our first walk, just from seeing the rest of the pack do it. He demonstrated understanding of 'sit' and complied after I'd given and demonstrated the command and rewarded...once. A day later, he sat on first command.
I love the dog. So do the rest of the pack, who are touchingly tender with him. The beast has grown even since I got him. He seems a little thin to me, so I'm trying to feed him up slowly as he sprouts like a weed. His injured eye is healing nicely; apparently his cornea was not scratched, and the irritation and cloudiness is almost gone. So I can make out his eye color now...the injured right is mostly blue, with some brown on the inner iris; the left is mostly brown with a rim of blue on the inside. His eyes are almost symmetrical in reverse; it's really cool.
He also has a dark patch on his back that, seen from the proper angle, is distinctly heart-shaped. I don't know if his adult coat will obscure this completely, but awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
And speaking of coat, Coba has grown in his full adult glory. Holy cats, the fur.
( pack woof woof )
