• http://theloudcorral.blogspot.com Laura

    Great shot! I love the angle. Oh, Coco. She looks so grown up here! How is the potty training coming along?

  • Sarah

    She’s getting so much bigger! I remember seeing her short little puppy nose– now it is so long and noble looking.

    On a side note I really enjoyed your post yesterday and devoured everyone’s comments and insights. I still can’t say where on the outrage spectrum I fall.

  • http://greatdayinmaine.blogspot.com Leesavee

    Your description of her two speeds (full-tilt and comatose) remind me of my little Roscoe when he was that age. Now that he’s 5, full-tilt is limited to about 1–2 hours per day. Thank heavens.

    I got my other dog when he was about a year old. MUCH easier. He came pre-potty trained!

    She’ll grow out of this…and the poop-eating, too. Man, that is totally disgusting, though. Nothing worse than a dog with poop-breath trying to lick your face.

  • http://www.jillshalvis.com/blog Jill S.

    As a fellow collie owner, I sympathize … (mine is half border collie, half Ausralian blue heeler, if she’s not heeling my kids, she’s heeling the cat, the other dog, my feet …)

  • Mari

    So is CoCo much more energetic than Chuck was at the same age? BTW, do you know what kind of mix Chuck is? I noticed that black spot on his tongue and wondered if he has a dash of Chow in there somewhere (not that he looks anything like a Chow). We’ve always had sight hounds — currently Scottish deerhounds — and they are total couch potatoes.

    See evidence of total slothfulness here:

    http://​www​.flickr​.com/​p​h​o​t​o​s​/​2​1​8​3​1​5​4​4​@​N​0​0​/​2​1​5​4​5​79477/

  • http://misha-pooh.blogspot.com Mish

    dude, ya’ll can always send her to me.…for a week…

  • suzieq

    Aren’t dogs a reminder that we are loved by a higher spirit..

  • Jennifer

    Jon,

    You need the furminator!! I brushed the most ridiculous amount of fur off of my dogs this past weekend!!

    http://​www​.furminator​.com

    Good luck!

  • Kim

    She’s such a pretty girl … it’s nice to see a relaxed photo of her!

  • Lesley

    Yes, how about those nails! It looks like Coco has a French manicure going.

    You’re a brave man for getting eye level with a dog glued to a chew toy. The last time I did this with a dog, I found myself at the end of a warning growl.

  • http://www.digitalcatharsis.com the mighty jimbo

    that’s a good shot! what, about f/6.3 or so? keeping nose and eyes in focus i find to be an art with the doggie pics.

  • http://www.catsaremyfave.blogspot.com Amy

    She looks almost a little Afghan Hound in the pic, lovely noble nose as Sarah said above. Although we don’t want her getting a Barbra Streisand bignose complex. My sister once said to my Mum that she looked like Barbra Streisand and my Mum started crying.

  • http://shoeism.blogspot.com/ Therese

    Love this shot. The fact that you managed to snap it is miraculous.

  • http://www.fromthefrontporch.com/WPBlog Ann from Montana

    Someone mentioned the furminator — regarding the Chuck photo on Dooce…I second that tool!!!

    I have a Karelian Bear Dog — Northern Breed, heavy double coat and he “blows” the undercoat Spring and Fall but Spring is truly a major hair fallout. The furminator and a shedding comb really did the trick. Usually it is a May to August twice daily brushing marathon. He started early this year — we were in Florida until a month ago — and the worst seems to be over.

  • Sally

    Has she been fixed yet? I used to have a roomate that had a border collie and an australian shepard. I have a lab. It way mayhem in the house. MAYHEM.

  • http://www.andersondailyphoto.wordpress.com Lessie

    Great shot! I may try to copy with my own dogs. Don’t you love chewies? The dogs get excited and I get free time! :)

  • http://davegoesrunning.blogspot.com/ Dave M

    NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM

  • http://samuelritterphotography.com AnnieR

    She’s growing up to be a beauty. Fully amped or passed out is exactly how to describe our aussie. Pixel goes from bouncing off the walls to sound asleep all the time. I also think he’s figured out the secret to teleportation as he can get from one end of the dog park to the other in the blink of an eye.

  • Lily

    From Zero to Hero. This is also the nature of terriers. It can be very alarming.