One of these puppies is doomed…

Photon

Peter…to live its life with us. 😉

twelve brand new puppies

Delivered over the course of this afternoon (it took about 5 hours). 12 fresh puppies, 8 of them blue merles, 4 tricolour.

The right pup will be chosen on the basis of personality, not looks—several general family factors, and of course, how much it bonds to Jon. So we won’t know for a number of weeks.

12 thoughts on “One of these puppies is doomed…”

  2. Counting from left to right – I would pick #7
    Have to love that little spot of white on it’s neck.

    Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy – A puppy is coming!

  3. Ah, wait till they’re about five weeks old or so—that’s when they start to get really cute. Right now they look (to me anyway) more like guinea pigs than puppies.

    The first time Jon saw pictures of newborn black-and-white puppies he thought they were cows, which actually made perfect sense since they didn’t have any nose pigment and certainly didn’t look much like dogs!

  4. I don’t know, Jude, those merles look pretty darn cuddly. They take after their dad:
    Max the dog
    I love how #8 has a bit of white on one side of the middle of his face (note pink blankets=girl, gray=boy). But I mustn’t get that way…the right puppy will pick us.

  5. My #7 is a girl – Great! – having had many dogs – I can tell you girls are much calmer and more loyal (great for John) And she looks smart!
    Any how – your right the right dog will find you. Best puppy tests – blow in the face – it should do nothing. Drop a pencil beside it – it should go to it.

    I don’t know – there is something about that dot. Maybe it is magic?

  6. Another puppy test: Deal everyone at the table two cards. If the puppy has 16 or less, it should ask for another card. If it has 17 or more, he/she should stick. Pet peeve: I’ve seen way too many puppies ask for another card while holding two face cards. I mean, come on! What’s the point of that? Bad dog!

  8. The real question is… what are you going to call it? Are you going to give it a cool, violent sociopathic name that will warp Jon and Dog for the rest of their lives? Or something cool and wacky that will convince your straight-laced neighbours that you are drug-addled lunatics? Or some combination of the two?
    Or you can take the opposite route and pick a name so dull and irony-drenched (Spot!) that no one will know what the hell you are thinking.

  9. I vote for #7: I think girls are sweeter (sorry) and black & white is so cute.
    And of course it looks the most like a cow. Calf.
    Plus it ties with #1 for being the fattest, which is good in a cow, meaning it’s very healthy, or maybe it means it doesn’t share??
    And you could call it Seventh Heaven, which beats Bessie. Or Ferdinand.
    Just being helpful
    Nana Tara

  10. Hm, if you get the puppy-that-looks-like-a-cow, you will of course have to name her “Clarus”, and she should go “Mooof!”

    [For more info on DogCow and Clarus in particular, read Tech Note 31.

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