Doodling Along...

There are five other dogs in Abram's service dog training "class", all older than him by a couple of weeks. He is the only "smooth" coat - two are sister goldens and three are yellow labradoodle brothers.

This past week while Zebulon's parents took their oldest daughter to college in Mississippi, he stayed with us and the rest of our ridgie pack. Abram just passed the five month mark last week and Zebbie (or Doodle as Gerry calls him) is a month older, but he is still all puppy! Here's a picture of him running toward me along with the rest of the kids. That's Abram obscured by him in the rear.

Lots of folks ask if he is some kind of wolfhound because of the punky looking hair, but he's just one of those new "designer" dogs...

Abram went to the vet Friday for his "brain surgery" (what my female vet and her female assistants call neutering) and is recovering nicely. I'm not sure he knows exactly what happened, but they said he woke up very upset and they had to re-sedate him. He's fine now and doesn't seem at all concerned anymore. He had a prelim done on his hips too and that looked great, so he's taken one more big step to becoming a service dog.

Here's a pic of Doodle and the kids trying to stay cool under the breezeway...