The lovely wife gave me an early Christmas gift- an inexpensive digital camera/camcorder/mp3 player/webcam combo thing. I don’t know jack about taking pictures, let alone with the digital camera, as the following will bear testimony:
| Sarah is sweet as sugar when she isn’t chewing the furniture or wrestling with Zoe. Her sweetness, along with the fact that she is somehow magically housetrained, combined with the fact that she hasn’t chewed guitars or computers, gives me high hopes she will make it through her trial period here at the Anderson house. |  |
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Red eye aside, here is a decent pic of Sarah alongside the Zoe-monster. Sarah and Zoe have taken to rough-housing throughout the day. |
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That’s not red eye, that’s spooky glowing demon-dog eye. Nice looking dogs though. How big is she/hold old is she/how big do you expect her to get if not full grown?
All guesses, but around 10 months old, and she is solid. A little smaller than Zoe, who is 45 or 50 pounds.
As far as how big she will get, I have no idea. Zoe was a pound dog- when I freed her, she was about 10 months old and 25 pounds. The prediction was that she wouldn’t get much bigger. That prediction was either dead wrong or wishful thinking on the part of the pound folks who were eager to get the dog adopted. As such, I am not making or taking any predictions on how big she might get.
I was previously a fan of bigger dogs (70lbs + variety), but I have since decided that Zoe and Beth at 45-50 pounds makes an excellent size. Sarah is a bit smaller, but she makes it up in youth and vigor.
For some reason, Zoe kicks Sarah’s ass outside in the back yard, but just puts up with taking one inside the house. Beth tends to herd, and occassionally gives an assist to Zoe in cornering or beating up the new dog. Beth is crazy loyal, and she and Zoe have a spooky unbarked agreement to gang up on other dogs.
They have multiple tried and true techniques. Their default is to have Beth circle around and jab and dart while Zoe wades in like a tank. If the prey is in motion, one will run herding diversions while the other t-bones the hapless dog. Beth and Zoe have literally rolled smaller dogs up and down the block, again t-boning the dog, but using their snouts like shovels to flip the smaller dog over. And over and over and over.
They only do this to certain dogs, but when they do, it is sometimes embarrassing and sometimes hilarious.