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[DanaC]

This thread doesn't have enough vegetables. I shall remedy the situation with some Carroty goodness:


The house is all just one big dog bed ...



Carrot looking soulful




Less soulful, comfy Carrot




Play with me

[infinite monkey]

Carrot is getting big! Cute!

[DanaC]

I know!

Doesn't seem five minutes since he looked like this:

[Chocolatl]

How is that the same dog?! His coloring seems so different!

[DanaC]

ha! yes. Beardies change coat colour as they get older. They start off with very deep colours and slowly fade and change across their first year and a half. Usually by the time they get to 18 months old they're so pale they look completely white in some lights. Then the colour returns a little, but much faded and sometimes a different shade of their starter colour.

Pilau was the same. He started out a darker brown than Carrot (who was actually a little more auburn in real life than those photos show), true chocolate. But as an adult he was a cappucino colour.

[Chocolatl]

Interesting! I wish I knew what my mutts looked like as pups. We rescued both of them as adults, but I would've loved to see them before they fit their own paws!

[orthodoc]

Ah, here are the Carrot pics!! Wow, what a difference from his early puppy pics. I like the idea that the coat color softens and gets more subtle. What a beautiful boy.

[DanaC]

Yeah, they look a lot like border collies whne they're really tiny. Especially the blues and slates.

[Nirvana]

Crunchy Carroty goodness! I love him! YUM!

[Griff]

So fresh!

[DanaC]

And now to wash down that crunchy fresh Carrot with some Merlot...

I got a sequence of texts with pics from J the other day. They have two dogs: a grizzled old veteran border collie called Lucky, and Carrot's brother and litter mate, Merlot.

The texts:

One of our dogs ate the meatballs in tomato sauce from the kitchen counter tonight...

The tell-tale evidence:

And he's not even sorry

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by DanaC

And now to wash down that crunchy fresh Carrot with some Merlot...

I got a sequence of texts with pics from J the other day.
They have two dogs: a grizzled old veteran border collie called Lucky,
and Carrot's brother and litter mate, Merlot.

Dana, you probably didn't see it, but those two pics reminded me
of this political TV commercial that ran countless times during the latest US election...

[infinite monkey]

HAHAHAHAHAAA! That is so funny!

[Sundae]

Bad, bad licky-chops.

I have to say it was one of the characteristics I disliked about dogs.
Their wolfish appetite.
I knew a lab who ate the preparings of a pie - raw meat, raw pastry and all. The owner had only gone to pick the post up from the mat. Yuck.

Then I met Diz.
Used tissues, bread rolls, Wotsits.

Some animals are just hongry.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Sundae

Bad, bad licky-chops.

I have to say it was one of the characteristics I disliked about dogs.
Their wolfish appetite.
I knew a lab who ate the preparings of a pie - raw meat, raw pastry and all. The owner had only gone to pick the post up from the mat. Yuck.

Then I met Diz.
Used tissues, bread rolls, Wotsits.

Some animals are just hongry.

Merl's not that bad really. I think a bowl of ready prepared meatballs in sauce would be too much temptation for most meat eating beasties :P

Pilau did on occasion steal food. Proper doggy stuff to steal as well - sausages, meat pies etc. But not very often. Beardies aren't usually that foodie.

Carrot has an annoying habit at the moment of stealing slices of bread if I have put a couple on a plate and buttered them ready for a meal.. but he doesn't eat them. He just likes stealing them, and then stands there licking his lips and looking puzzled at the buttery taste.

Of course labradors are one of those breeds that tend towards a more than healthy appetite and indiscriminate tastes. Rhodesians are the same. Amble-scramble once ate through the bottom of a tupperware container to get at the scones inside :P