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Jherad
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I'm not sure if they qualify as cute yet, but...  Top left one is ours - Oscar  He was born on Sunday. |
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Jherad
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 They look like it, don't they? Day old Landseer Newfoundland puppies.
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RhyssaFireheart
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Puppies by definition are cute. Although at the day old stage, those babies aren't doing much but being cow colored bumps on the rug, lol!
And.. Oscar? Do you not like the dog already for all the future slobber you'll deal with?
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 Newfies They will look a lot more like cows once they are finished growing.
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Man, even at a day old they look big. Also, I like the name Oscar! |
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Jherad
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One more, 5 days old now:  Much more puppylike now... They have their fur explosion at about 5 weeks. I like the name Oscar! I don't know why, but it seems to fit a black and white - my wife also wants a Bombay kitten, which she will insist on calling Lt. Ripley.  I've been stocking up on dog equipment today (crate, bowls etc), and I have a first toy ready for him for the ride home. A plush cow.  |
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I used to have a newfie, not a Landseer but a 'real' one. Landseers are nice although apparently they can be a bit more temperamental than regular newfs as well as being a bit smaller.
I'd have another newfie in a heartbeat if my situation allowed me to have pets and if I wasn't likely to move countries every few years. Beautiful, beautiful dogs.
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Are Landseers less slobbery too, or is that trait independent of the coloring? One of my uncles had a Landseer and he was the best behaved, least slobbery newfie I have encountered.
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Big dogs Not sure if you know it, but getting a raised stand for food/water is a good idea as he gets bigger. It's better for larger dogs to not have to crouch down so low to eat or drink. If you know that already, sorry for repeating. I have some friends who don't think their larger dog needs something like that. Anyways, newfies are beautiful, but I've always been partial to Saints, mostly because I grew up having them in the family. |
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Jherad
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Landseers in the US (at least as far as the breeders I've been in contact with) are bred differently to Landseers in Europe. In the US, they are essentially just a colour variant to the Newf (there is no acknowledged difference in form, temperament, size etc). In Europe, they tend to be slimmer, with thinner heads.
Both European and US Landseers need to be bred with black Newfs on occasion or they will start to lose Newf traits - as far as I can see, the US breeders mostly breed Landseers with black Newfs for every litter, whereas European breeders might wait a few generations before doing so. Oscar's parents were a Landseer female, and a black Newf male - his mother was likewise bred from a Landseer and black.
The slobbering is down to the big jowls (edit: and flues) - some breeders like the droopy look, others less so, so it's very much down to the lineage.
There has been a lot of discussion on the raised food/water bowl question over recent years - it used to be thought that a raised bowl helped prevent bloat, now it is thought it might actually be a contributing factor towards it. Sigh. The wisdom is that a raised bowl is at least good while they're puppies though, as it helps put less strain on their rapidly growing skeleton.
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« Last Edit: October 17, 2010, 03:08:45 PM by Jherad »
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Ahahahaha. Oh. Ok, that's really cute. |
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Jherad
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Couple more pics of Oscar - 4 weeks old now. I'm sorry, I can't help myself.
Not my floor!
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Okay, he's really cute. And fluffy. Cute and fluffy and well on his way to being huge.
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Couple more pics of Oscar - 4 weeks old now. I'm sorry, I can't help myself.
Not my floor!
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Jherad
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Why is your new tile already cracked?
Not my floor!
Oscar is still with the breeder, as he hasn't been weaned yet, so I take no responsibility for that floor! In fairness though, she does have a pack of bear-dogs running around on it daily. I pick him up on the 12th of December (9 weeks old). Can't wait! |
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Whoops, I thought 'Not my floor!' was more of a sorrowful cry that the puppy pissed/shit/etc all over it, not you saying that it was someone else's floor. December 12th will be here before you know it - Einstein turns 10 months in a few days, and it feels like it's been a week. If theres an affordable boarding training school near you, I highly recommend it - we paid $650 for 2 weeks and he is far more manageable after the training, and we would not have been able to do it ourselves. Drop him off, pick him up trained 2 weeks later, it sucked not having him for the interim, but the results were worth it. Born Jan 14th or so, here he is at 1 month:  These were april or may, so 3-4 months old:   And of course, his first Halloween:  |
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OMG, that dog was batshit from birth, wasn't he?
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Einstein never fails to make me laugh |
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I'm sorry, but I'm renaming him Marty.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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I'm sorry, but I'm renaming him Marty.
/snort That's it exactly. |
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Jherad
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Einstein is fantastic. Cute, and completely off his trolley. As I'm not working at the moment, I'm going to try to train Oscar myself (I've been studying for this for a while - we'll see...). I'm also enrolling him in a puppy obedience class with a decent trainer just to be on the safe side. |
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He's definitely a handful...he doesn't understand that it's not /always/ playtime. We finally worked him from to fetch to catch, and he really fucking loves playing catch. When I get home and plop down on the couch, he'll start grabbing his toys, jumping up on the couch and dropping them on me. It's not rare to see me sitting there with 4-6 stuffed animals piled on my lap and a very unhappy dog pawing at me after a long day.
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Do you have those decks glued temporarily or something, no way those birds are actually rolling around on tech decks?
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He didn't make that picture, it's been around for a long, long time.
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Hedgehogs really are adorable.
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Yeah, if I ever actually settled somewhere for an actual longish period of time, I'd really consider getting a hedgehog.
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They're not legal here as it happen, like most non-standard pets, otherwise we probably would have one.
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Wait.. people can keep Tigers but not Hedgehogs?  |
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