Golden leaves, golden dog, even golden Dodge!

Wouldn't it have been great if Finn and Murphy could have met in person?
http://murphy-doodle.blogspot.com/

Finn got his first grooming today !

And he reminds me of another dear, groomed dog:

Finn 10-13-09 (almost 5 months) Murphy 4-25-07 (1 year + 5 months)
See http://murphy-doodle.blogspot.com/

Finn at 4 1/2 months, October 3, 2009

The new king

Lookin' a bit bow-legged


The nose is the engine of the dog.

Eating grass

Back to Finn at 4 months on September 19

Attached by the nose.

Walking with Lea in White's Woods.

He still has his ringtail !

Back to 4 1/2 months old

In his element.

In his pen.

The caged beast.

At rest.

Finn on the Run (video)

Here are two photos taken on October 3, exactly one month after the one at the bottom just below them (the second one below) , so you can see how much Finn has grown in just one month.

Exponential growth like "The Little Shop of Horrors"

Finn is now (on September 13, the second photo below) twice the size and weight that he was just over a month ago (on August 9, in the first photo):

Blondie goes Golden

Finn is turning more golden! Compare these two photos, one on pick-up day back on July 18, and the one below it taken yesterday, September 13.

The homing pigeon

Ready for a walk on September 13. Finn is a homing pigeon. I walk him up our road to the traditional turnaround point. I half-drag him there and then, after I say "Let's go home," he drags me back!

Pig on pig (video)

Note how long Finn's legs are in proportion to his body, like the baby elephant beside him. Surely this is a harbinger of future growth.

His very first walk at Blue Spruce Park (6-second video)

Young ringtailed Finn wandered in the woods today.

That's quite a pigtail. He looks like a piglet feeding at a trough.

He meets a close friend.

Here he communes with (and asserts his superiority over) Shamie--and then appears to have decapitated him.

I call this film clip "Yo Mama?" Does Finn follow his mother here?

No, that's our friend Linda's 98-pound male labradoodle, Crispin.

Here's a film clip of Finn in playful combat with Shamie the cat, who is now trying to make sense of a doodle his own size, after a few years of interaction with our late beloved goldendoodle Murphy, who was six times Shamie's size: http://murphy-doodle.blogspot.com/. Yet Shamie could befuddle Murphy more easily than he can young Finn (so far)!



But fear not: Shamie can handle himself fine, especially outside, where he can leap onto a wall out of Finn's reach, and where just this morning (7/26), he jumped out of a bush to attack Finn.

Close-ups, 7/20/09:

Here are some photos of young Finn on the way home, 7/18/09.

Introducing Finn (Fionn mac Cumhaill) the goldendoodle

On Saturday, 7/18/09, we brought home Finn, born 5/20/09, from Barleycroft Kennels near Dover, Pennsylvania. Here are Finn's parents: six-year-old Penny, his retriever mother; and four-year-old Friday, his poodle father. And below are Lea and Finn at Barleycroft, with breeder Barbara Clardy behind them; and Jim and Finn, about to head home.