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.