The Ne'er-Ending Tale of a Carpet Alligator

[dawn_felagund]

I'm back from my trip, and I'll post details (and photos) soon, but first, I am two weeks behind on Alex's baby pictures. These pictures were taken at eleven and twelve weeks of age.

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[rinnor]

Awww, he's so adorable! At the end of the week do you look at him and think "He's gotten tall this week" or "he's gotten long?"

I'm still hoping you get a picture of him surfing sometime.

[dawn_felagund]

Right now, it seems that his legs get an inch longer every day. My parents babysat over the weekend while we were away, and my mom swears that you can see him get bigger by the day. I think I might agree!

I'll try to coax him up onto a tray table and take a picture for you, before he gets too big to fit anymore!

[rinnor]

My bad, that would be encouraging bad habits, so I understand if you don't do that.

[dawn_felagund]

Well, considering that I rigged the pictures of him with the pumpkin, the handbag, and the atlas....

I'll get him up there some time for you. They're not even up anymore, so really, he couldn't keep up with the habit.

[sinneahtes]

*obligatory squee* Aw, I can't help but love the "grab anything and run around with it" tendency... (fond memories of tiny little White Sox dragging a HUGE mop through the dining room at dinner time once)--Alex kind of looks like he's trying to give a lesson on how to strut around with a zebra print bag and look good at it :D

[dawn_felagund]

He's definitely got a little strut when he gets a hold of something that he knows he's not supposed to have. Part of it might be that he's so little that he has to hold his head up really high to keep things from dragging the ground...but he also gets this little prance in his step like, "Look how big I am! I can carry the rug from around the toilet, all the way into my lair!" He also tries to drag really big sticks around while outside. He's got ambition. ;)

[sinneahtes]

Heehee, White Sox used to have this little "victory trot" he'd do where he'd grab something and prance in a circle around the house with it in his mouth and his head held pretty high--I think dogs are natural addicts of the game "Keep Away" and that strut might be a sort of "Come and get it!" challenge. ;)

[tarion_anarore]

*MELTS*

Pumpkins, eh?

[dawn_felagund]

Awwww... *pets doggie with pumpkin* So precious!

We saw a ginormous chocolate lab at PetSmart tonight (Alex, of course, wanted to be friends, never mind that the dog was ten times his size!) and his guardian said, "Just wait till yours is this big!" o.O

Our past retrievers have also stolen some funny things. We were eating pizza on New Years once and Sunnie nanced on up and took a single piece in her teeth, went back to her bed, and ate it. I guess it was a holiday for her too! :^P

Moose waited until my mom was looking at the TV, then took a big bite of her banana. His rationale was that she was holding it right at eye level.

I'm trying to teach Alex not to stand up to look onto the counters now, but I know he'll get away with some funny things in the years to come. Before we had Crosby, he ate a whole roll of Polish kilbasa sausage one Christmas. His previous guardian said that he had the foulest burps for the better part of the day.

Yep, big doggies are cool. :)

[tarion_anarore]

Hehe! That big indeed! And you know, labs are usually smaller than goldens...;P And hey, my dog likes blondes. *giggle*

My dogs get bits from the counter all the time, courtesy of us suckers. :D I don't think they've snagged anything off the counter since the pie though. We got pretty upset over the pie. ;) But Loki licks the edge of the table. And they both eat off of forks. For stealing, they prefer weirder things. Like socks (bad!), or jalapenos. I think Loki must have eaten four in one day. We've learned to keep food much higher than doggie eye-level! Loki's half-sister stole a bagel off the tabel once. In all honesty, I think I have the dogs with the best table manners in the country! Someone else's dog jumped up on the table and stuck her head in the Cheetos at a dog party one year! *lol*

*misses her big doggies, even though she just left two days ago*

[allie_meril]

*pops out of the woodwork to ogle* *much "Awwwww"ing ensues*

:) I think that's got to be the most beautiful puppy I've seen in... ever. Ever ever.

And re: pets stealing things? My cat stole a pork chop right off the table once... True story! I came in for dinner, and my mom looked at me in puzzlement: "Er... Did you already eat?"
Me: "Noooo..."
Cat: *smirks*

He is always v. bad during mealtimes: he plants himself next to one of us, stands on his hind legs, and meows and gently (but insistently) nudges us with his front paws. *facepalm*

Chewy-the-mutt, OTOH, is a comparatively tame beggar.
Mostly.
Ish.
OK, he's bad, but he's not as bad as the cat.

*waves* School again, school again, jiggity jig... One week to go, yes!

[frenchpony]

He really is a puppy's puppy.

[dawn_felagund]

And boy, does he know it. ;)

Re: Awwww, how cute!

[dawn_felagund]

We did! Thank you! :)

Carpet alligators are fun. Well, except for the whole alligator-biting part.

I'm not sure that Jupiter would agree.... ;)