Height

Right about 25.5"...it's hard to measure your own leg

4 months

Prime weighs 74lbs as of yesterday. He finished his puppy shots and saw the vet about some thin hair which the vet says is fine. Although we did notice yesterday that one of his testicles is about half as large as the the other, we are taking a wait and see attitude. I know this is a quick update i will post a height as soon as i get one, he is sleeping soundly right now and i don't want to wake him.

Class

Tonight Prime started his puppy obedience class. We were told that he is nearly ready for beginner class. I was a proud momma. He had a blast, somehow he bruised the bottom of one of his feet though. Hmmm.

Evacu-vacation

Okay, so as some of you know, the gulf coast just evacuated from Hurricane Gustav (really? what a name). So we packed up our house, my sister & father, the dogs (Prime, our dachshund, and my sister's german shepard), three cars and we boogied. We evacuated to a family friend's son's farm in Mathersville, Ms. We left at 6 pm on Saturday and we got there at 4 am on Sunay. A trip that would normally take 3 hours from our house.
Once we got there, we were happy to see that we were staying on a farm with 150 acres of land with numerous ponds. We spent basically the whole time hiking, letting the dogs swim and letting the puppys run and play and have a good time. I also got some really great pictures out of our little evacu-vacation.
We also played some search games, while we have yet to be able to get to the northshore to go see the SAR team, we have been playing search games with prime. We've been training him some with my sister's search dog and he is showing some promise. While we were evacuating we did some L-shaped run aways where he couldn't see me before he searched for me, there was also one 'runaway' where he found me in the vineyard before Halley. So i have great hopes for him.



Dogs like peanut butter auntie heather



I want to be a pointer




But Halley, that's MY cuz




I was starting to worry for a while that we were the only house that didn't get a "water dragon" because prime doesn't hate the hose but he's not crazy about it like some of the other babies. However, as soon as we showed them the pond he hopped right in!



In fact all of the puppies enjoyed the pond.



Then he tried sticking his whole head in the water! (Don't worry jen, we unwrapped his ears and let them dry after he got wet. It was a pain but he was having so much fun i couldn't deny him.





Hyper speed



Pining after the Wubba



Ella even got in a little session of mud wallowing.



Then we took a hike, and along the pond there was a boat, we practiced with everyone playing in the boat since it was a new object.



We played by a second pond on the property which was right next to the vineyard which we played some search games in.



My sister calls this "small dog in tall grass"



And i know he is wet and has sand on his ears but i thought this was such a pretty head shot that it needed to be added.

Week of 8/25

Okay, so here are some recent pictures of our boy. He got his ears wrapped really throughly for the first time this last week and can you imagine he hasn't been able to rip them off yet. So he is now in a set of goal posts and we are excited cause they are starting to look like they should and are much more sturdy.



Today Prime learned an important lesson in our house today. If you are a good boy while you get a quick bath (cause you smell like sweaty dog), then afterward you get to play with the towel used to dry you off! Needless to say he loved that game.







Mom! The cat is shooting me with lazer beams from his eyes!!!



However, i think these pictures really capture him better than any of the ones i've taken previously.











And Finally, This is Prime playing with his MEGA Wubba that his daddy bought him. I thought it was going to be "too" big. He just loves it. I swear that bottom ball is nearly the size of a soccer ball.

Hey Guys - So here are the updates. Prime weighs 47.6 lbs yesterday. We had his ears taken down from the cup and wrapped in tape. This first picture is awful because his ear is flopped down agaist the top of the head. So his ear doesn't actually look like a pit bull it is just a bad angle for the picture.




Obviously for this one it is flopped in the other direction. I guess Kevin's wish of them standing straight up right after we took them out of the cup is out the window. haha.



These next three, I'm trying to get a picture of him stacked to see what we think of him show-wise. We haven't worked very much on this skill so again, these were some of the best of the set.

First set of ear stitches came out last night. They were on the top of his ear. The bottom set of stitches comes out at 10:30a on Friday. We have an appointment to go and get stitches removed and let the vet do the first ear wrapping. I am going to be bringing my camera to get pictures of his ears completely unwrapped. We are then hoping that we can bring him out to be evaluated this weekend by the search and rescue team. Prime has made his daddy very happy in the last few days by really starting to "fetch" in earnest. Fetch is daddy's favorite game. He is still a little bit whiny however i think alot of that this week has had to do with having his ears taped to the top of his head. That is all in the way of updates at the moment. We are going to work on getting a weight in the next few days, i figured we would wait until we go see the vet on Friday to get a weight because he's getting a little cumbersome for me to hold and Kevin has been a little under the weather and i feel bad about asking him to weigh him, Plus we are going to the vet on friday and he has to learn how to get weighed sooner or later.