Dog at rest

I decided to give up on catching a good shot of CJ next to one of the other dogs out on a walk to show how much she’s grown. Instead, I’m going to return to a previous picture of her I posted less than a week after I picked her up, lying on one of the dog beds I took along.

For contrast, here she is a few days ago. The same dog bed is underneath the one she’s lying on.

Now, you probably think “So what? Puppies grow up and get bigger–what’s so amazing about that?” What has me so boggled is that when I picked her up, I expected her to be my smallest dog. I thought she was about 3 months old, and she weighed only four and a half pounds. Her paws were small. She was very well coordinated–way more coordinated than a typical 6-week old puppy. Her ears were completely upright (and very large), which to me also indicated she wasn’t a 6-week-old pup. When I got her home, a month later, she was still quite small–she promptly hopped through one of the doggie windows I have in my fence, which are about 4 inches square. And now she’s gi-normous. Relatively speaking.

But very pretty, don’t you think? Here’s a face shot:

Here’s one I grabbed on a walk–not a great shot but at least she was standing still.

I’d like to catch one more at her level, but I’ve discovered that if I kneel down anywhere near a dog, they just come running up to me and poke their nose in the camera lens.

You probably noticed she’s changed in more than size–her coloring is quite different also. She went through all kinds of changes in coloring. I think she’s finally settled on her adult coloring–but I won’t be sure of it for another six months.