Thumper grows up!

Thumper grows up!

Ah ha! I knew you wouldn't be able to resist my puppy pictures!!

These pictures will show you what my life was like as I grew from babyhood to puppyhood into being a show dog.

All of these pictures are put in little thumbnails, so that this page doesn't take forever to come in... but if you want to see any of them in great detail, just click on them, ok??

And ENJOY!


This was my mom... I am in the picture too, but I am a bit hard to see at this point <g>.	Ah! At last, you can see me. As you can see, I started out life as quite a wee little squirt.	This was me with my little sister... as you can see, she was born very small, and she didn't make it.	That made my Mom very sad...so it was a good thing that I was a very FAT baby!!


Ever wonder how little we really are growing up?? Well, here is a banana to measure me by.	Or if you prefer... see how I fit in my Mom's hands... and I'm not a newborn anymore, folks!	This is when I started to figure out there was a world out there... first up... this is mum <g>.


I was born Nov 26... so I became quite the Christmas baby.	SIGH. Sometimes I was posed in the silliest places!	Sometimes I was posed so much I just got tuckered right out!


As I got older I soon realized that certain things were mine. This was mine...	This was mine...	This was mine...	And this was mine.


In this picture you can see my bucket. One day, after my parents were on vacation, the Post Office brought them their mail in this nice plastic bucket, and later on, this became my first bed.		Then I realized the big dogs didn't sleep in a bucket! So I began to copy how they slept.	But the bucket was still cool. Overall, not much had changed for me... the toys had just gotten smaller, that's all.


	Of course, my toys still had to be kept in line...


Then my career training began. My first lesson, I had to stand tall and show off my silhouette. But it's hard when things are so interesting!!!		But I figured it out. Mom was so proud!


	*By this time, I had become a very handsome boy. I had not only learned how to stack myself, I had learned how to do it well.*


As you can see, I was growing up to be quite an impressive boy... with lots of attitude! I was on my way to being a top notch show dog!

Next... I had learned a lot of doggy things... it was time to learn the people things! So I learned how to walk.
NAH! Just kidding! Aren't people silly?? Imagine walking around on two legs when you have four to put to good use!
Do you think that's why people are so SLOW?


No... what really happened next is that I had to put all my good training to use. Here I am at my first match... didn't I just make the picture? This was just a practice show, but the real thing was coming up fast!


Of course, that didn't mean that after that I never got to just sit around, laze about in bed... and, of course, I still had my TOYS!!!


Not that there wasn't still time to play...	But I was learning fast.... and growing fast!