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Symmetry's Vrroom At The Top She's one of the "KinseyHams" - she was the only girl in the litter, and has her mother's "I'm a Princess and you may cater to me now" attitude in triplicate!! But we're crazy about her, even if she is a brat... Here are some pictures of her as she's growing up. |
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9 days old - How sweet! |
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22 days old - look at those "baby blues"! |
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4 weeks old. I think this was their first time to be outdoors, and they WEREN'T impressed!! Late September 2005 and it was still stinkin' hot! |
5 weeks old. Any kind of stacked picture ("stacking" refers to the standardized show pose, used to make it easier to compare the structure of one dog to another) of Topper became a rare item for the next few months - she went through a LONG, really really headstrong phase!! I've got plenty of pictures of her having a hissy fit, though... |
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6 weeks old, and we're doing this on HER terms! |
9 weeks old. Ear cropping (surgically trimming the ears to make them lighter so that they will stand erect) is a controversial practice. I think part of the reason some people think it's cruel is that they see puppies with their ears braced up in these bandages, and think the ears must hurt. They don't realize that the ears heal VERY fast, and the bandages are just used to prop the ear up until the cartilage matures and hardens. Puppies are notoriously non-stoic - believe me, if this hurt they would LET YOU KNOW ABOUT IT!! |
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4 months. This is what the ears look like when they're not taped up - at this age they'll stand for a day or so then they start to droop and we tape them up again. She'll grow into them, but they do look really long here! |
Four and a half months - and all of a sudden, she's willing to stack!! Plus, Verjean is really, really good at handling dogs! |
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Topper has always had a crush on Chantel's boy Tiger - but apparently he wasn't paying enough attention to her here!! Fortunately Tiger is REALLY tolerant! |
Topper with her Aunt Aeryn and her mom. This is why it's sometimes difficult to find a place to sit at our house! |
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Topper's first point!! Six months old - our little girl is growing up! |
Here's Topper winning her second point in Oklahoma City shortly after turning 10 months old. |
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