It's been a few days since I posted to the blog. The primary reason is that with the Thanksgiving weekend I have not been able to get Echo out and about as much.
Some notable things have happened, though.
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On Wednesday night, she wanted something. I couldn't figure out what. Then, Echo, Gimli and I went into the garage. Gimli became fixated on two old "rope" toys that had been purchased for Tas and Radar. (The fairly longs ones (about 2 feet long), with a knot in the middle.) So, we took one inside.
It went back and forth between Echo and Gimli for about half an hour. At that point, I noticed that the end that they had been working on the most had a red tinge (the rope is white). So, I checked the gums of both dogs, and took the toy away for a bit. I found no evidence of bleeding gums, or whatever. (Radar was a VERY obsessive dog. Once he started chewing on a toy, he would chew until the toy was destroyed, or his gums bled.)
I didn't think much of it, until Thursday night. Amy, Gimli, Echo and I were gathered in front of our fireplace. Echo was in the floor chewing on the rope toy. Gimli was sitting on a couch. Amy and I were watching the TV in that part of the room.
It was then that I started noticing shiny things on our carpet. We have white berber carpet. The things that were catching my eye were the same color, but they were reflecting the light.
Since that time, Amy or I have found 6 puppy teeth in our carpet. Apparently, the next round of teething has started.
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Echo seems to be growing, again. So, on Thursday night, Amy did the "bathroom scale" test with Echo. I have no idea as to the accuracy of our bathroom scale, but, it said that the difference between Amy alone on the scale, and Amy holding Echo on the scale, was 40 pounds.
She is 5 and a half months old.
According to Wikipedia's article on Smooth Collies, adult females of the breed can weigh as little as 45 pounds, and adult males can be as heavy as 75 pounds.
Echo, according to the calculator in a previous post, is the human equivalent of 4.8 years old.
I think she is, easily, going to be more than 45 pounds as an adult. ... I wouldn't be surprised if she is more than 45 pound by New Years.
Echo is not overfed, or fat, either. If anything, my concern is that we might not be feeding her enough.
She is sleek. In fact, if you go back to the Wikipedia entry for Smooth Collies, her body lines look an awful lot like the picture from 1915, in the "History" section.
Gimli acquired the nicknamed "Big'Un" (that's "Big One", for those of you that don't speak "Southern" (it's pronounced similar to the last name: "Biggin")) because upon reaching his adult weight, he weighed as much as Tas and Radar, combined. (Gimli is a standard dachshund, and Tas and Radar were miniatures.) Gimli fluctuates between 22 and 24 pounds.
Echo's nickname, for me, has always been "Little Girl". Amy and Jesus, both, have started calling her that, on a regular basis.
It has become comical. "Big'Un" is a dog that weighs about 23 pounds, and has a "shoulder height:" of bout 8 inches. "Little Girl" is a dog that weighs 40 pounds, and stands over 2 feet, at the shoulder, and she has A LOT of "growing up" to do, physically.
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More later. Enough for now.
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