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| This is Otto at six weeks. | This is the face he gives us when he finds out his cuteness can't get him his way all the time. | Starting to look like a Dane | |||
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| Otto at seven weeks. | The water bottle became a fun toy, for the few minutes he would remember to play with it. | Eight weeks. Here's our boy resting ... |
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About Me at 2 Months We brought Otto home on Monday, March 22, 1999. He was so tiny we could not even imagine him being a large (enormous) dog in the future. For those of you wondering, he DOES know how cute he is and tries to use that to get away with stuff, but overall, he's doing well. He doesn't cry at night anymore, and ALMOST makes it through the night without accidents. (we started crate training him, with a borrowed small dog crate -- crates are prohibitively expensive in Mexico. He outgrew the crate very quickly ... the replacement is awaiting delivery.) He sleeps a lot. And waking him up is a real process; he takes his time, goes back to sleep, and only when it's clear he HAS to wake up, does he begin the move to stand up. But even then he has to lie down at least one more time before he's ready to face the world. Playing is similar to the waking up process. He has to be convinced that what you want him to do is a better option that what he is already doing, ... so he stares a lot, trying to decide if it's something he really WANTS to do. Eventually he decides that the toy you have is the one he wants to play with, for a little while anyway. He has the attention span of a gnat, but then, he isn't even 3 months old yet. His personality is starting to show through ... not the mischievious part (that starteding showing up the first night!), but the sulking part, when he doesn't get his way. He's a pouter and a bit of a cry baby (no, we're not being mean, believe me ... he bumps something, looks at us for our reaction, and THEN starts to cry!) But he also sulks, and tries to get forgiven when he's done something bad, by being amazingly adorable and sad looking! |
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This page was last updated on 1/16/01
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