All about Finn the goldendoodle

I must update this blog!

2010-12-19T17:56:00.000-08:00

He loves you. We must get more recent photos up here.

Finn's first Easter (video 1)

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Finn's first Easter (video 2)

2010-04-04T17:19:00.000-07:00

Five Days after Groundhog Day: OUR Hog was Right

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(Our Punxsutawney Phil accurately predicted six more weeks of winter; other, obviously bogus groundhog-soothsayers around the country idiotically predicted an early spring, just before the biggest eastern snowfall in many years, which struck on Feb. 5, actually just three days after their prediction.)

After sniffing out the scene. . .

The valiant steed is ready to face the winter wilderness.

Snow-romping in Moretti Field (video)

2010-02-07T14:17:00.000-08:00

Favorite winter sport: field-romping. This time, in the deepest single snowfall in the nearly 12 years we've lived in this house.

Shamie grooms Finn (video)

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Shamie: "Hmm. . .This spot here needs some cleaning. No, down, Finn! You need to be groomed. I said, Down! That's better. Hmm, a bit more. OK, I'm done here--for the moment."

After grooming

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Finn's growth in five months

2010-01-06T08:48:00.000-08:00

Yes, it's been awhile since I've posted here about Finn; my broken ankle a couple of months ago got in my way. There's much more that I should post about Finn's activities since my last post below of more than two months ago. But for the moment, the two photos below show Finn's growth across the last five months, from August 9 to today (Jan. 6, 2010). For other photos of various stages of Finn's growth in between these two extremes, scroll lower in this blog (at the bottom of this page, when you've scrolled down to the last photo, click on the little "Older Posts" link on the right side).

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Golden leaves, golden dog, even golden Dodge!

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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 !

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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

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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

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Attached by the nose.

Walking with Lea in White's Woods.

He still has his ringtail !

Back to 4 1/2 months old

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In his element.

In his pen.

The caged beast.

At rest.

Finn on the Run (video)

2009-10-04T08:30:00.000-07:00

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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"

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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

2009-09-14T06:09:00.001-07:00

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

2009-09-14T06:03:00.000-07:00

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)

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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.

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

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Young ringtailed Finn wandered in the woods today.

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

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He meets a close friend.

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

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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.

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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.

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Close-ups, 7/20/09:

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

Introducing Finn (Fionn mac Cumhaill) the goldendoodle

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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.