I pulled every cocklebur plant I could find yesterday. This morning, my Thor comes in like this. And of course he doesn’t like for me to comb them out, especially not from his tail.
His brother gets them too, but he has a much silkier coat.
Loki (left) and Thor. 1.5 year-old neutered male littermates. Plotting something, no?
I have a pair of neutered male keeshond littermates, 1.5 years old who have been with me for about 10 months. In the past, I've had three large(ish) mixed breed dogs.
I've noticed two things that differ about these two kees relative to my previous dogs:
Very little dream activity. My other dogs have had a lot of dream activity - barking in their sleep, large paw/leg movements. These two kees show very little dream activity. I've never heard them sleep bark and have seen their little paws twitching maybe 10 times.
Only sleeping on hard surfaces. My other dogs have loved to sleep on the couch, join me in the bed. My kees may hang out on the couch for a bit, but when they get drowsy they get on the hardwood floor to sleep. And while I initially provided each of them with a nice bed in their kennels, they both push the bed out of the way and sleep on the floor of the kennel. While part of this could possibly them being overheated, they acted this way in the winter too.
Neither of these are a problem, just curious what others have noted, especially since these are my first purebred dogs.
My sweet Loki asking to go out (where he no doubt plans to raid my apple trees). How could anyone deny him anything?
My sweet Thor was patient and gentle and spent at least two hours working on getting the peanut butter out of his jar. His brother Loki clamped his jar shut and then gave up.
My two sweet boys - Loki (left) and Thor. Littermates, one year old.