Weight: 195 LBS
Height: 31 Inches
Age: 6.5 months old
We took Echo to see his Mom and family back at the breeders on Sunday. It was fun to see how he's growing compared to the others and see them interact with each other.
Maggie, seen here in this side-by-side comparison is his sister born from the same litter. They are about the same size so far - Echo might be a little taller actually, but Maggie is definitely heavier! Echo's a skinny boy, but we've started to increase his food, so hopefully will fill out a little in the next week. We found out that Maggie was getting 9-10 cups/day whereas Echo was on 7/day... so he's getting more starting today (we knew he was skinny, which is good, but he's a little too skinny according to our breeder right now - not unhealthy, though).
It's funny to go back to the breeder's now and see the full size dogs, because they don't seem all that large anymore. It's pretty crazy... I was actually sitting in their kitchen with a few dogs around me thinking to myself, "they aren't THAT big..." 6 months ago they were, though! Both Marnie and I thought the same about their size. It's amazing how your perception changes. Echo is now 31(ish) inches at the shoulder. He's getting near full height now and standing next to the other female dogs, looks about the same size, although much skinnier than them.
The breeder also just had another litter of 13 (!!) ALL BLUE puppies on Thursday (8 females!). So we got to see them at 4 days old. Very cute, but kind of ugly as well... They looked like blue lab rats with big heads. Marn got to pet the runt with Danielle under the very watchful eye of the mom. They made very cute squeaking noises as they slept and ate.
When we first arrived and the dogs came tearing after Echo, he was really really scared. His tail was firmly curled between his legs, tickling his belly as he tried to hide and run away. Angus, the big (and only) boy of the pack was going at him pretty good, never hurting, but growling very viciously. Danielle actually tossed him outside for a while until he settled down - it was a little scary, honestly. He's a big dog with very deep growls. Anyway, after 5-10 minutes Echo settled in and played with the others. The older ones didn't pay too much attention to him, but Maggie sure did. They played and bit at each other the whole time. Finally Echo had some dogs to play with that weren't afraid of him! Maggie threw her weight around and flattened Echo a few times, but it was all good playing.
Danielle also had a few updates for me for the website, and mentioned that she's been getting all positive comments about it and is really happy with it. So that's nice to hear. She actually asked me how much I owe her for it, which was a little funny because I thought we were even - she got a website, we got Echo.
The "trade" included everything with updates for the year, and if she wanted me to continue updating the site after that, we would work out payments. We were both happy about that. It's nice to hear that people, including her, are liking the site.
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