a fun test

[pyrsandponies]

So, our breeder picked two potential show quality bitches from Gypsy's litter. They are Miss Puppy's sisters, and one of them is going to be our puppy. We have selected the dog (unanimous agreement from breeder, Mom, Dad and Me.)

But I have decided that you all need to go through the same paroxysms of cute! and Which ONE?! that we did.

So, here are the two puppies. Which one did we choose?



Puppy #1











Puppy #2









The answer will be posted after 3PM PDT. ;).

Comments

[archaica.livejournal.com]

I vote for #1! Because she gives kisses! :)

[raithen.livejournal.com]

the kiss IS pretty cute.... ;).

[archaica.livejournal.com]

I actually think #2 is the one you chose. But KISSES!!

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Aaah! I can't decide!

I will say #2, because she looks contemplative.

[raithen.livejournal.com]

and welcome to the pain we felt....

:D.

[kerlin.livejournal.com]

Personally, I would've gone with #1, because, kisses! She looks spunky and sweet. The second one has better markings, but is kind of mellow, though that might make her a better farm & mother dog.

Then again, my parents chose our dog by letting the three of us loose in a pen with all the puppies. Chamois was the one who came over to my brother, curled up in his lap, and fell asleep. :) She's still the best dog in the world.

[archaica.livejournal.com]

Awwww, your icon is so cute!

[raithen.livejournal.com]

we picked Sheena, our first boxer, in a very similar way. Sis, Mom and I went in with all the puppies - the most friendly one was Sheena. Except Sheena never slept. Ever. Sheena was a bit, shall we say, hyperactive! SHe was the dog who would run the hill by our house (LONG hill, probably 1.5 km eaach way) twice during the time we walked it once (was a rural area, safe for her to run). And we'd get up top, and she'd be panting, and would look at us and run back down to the bottom of the hill again!

[rolypolypony.livejournal.com]

How can you choose???!!

I too go w/ #1, because of the smooches :)

They're both totally adorable!

How about get BOTH!!!?!?

[raithen.livejournal.com]

that was my first vote, too! BOTH!

I was outvoted.... ;)

[rolypolypony.livejournal.com]

Blast!!

[lawgeekgurl.livejournal.com]

I want all of them!

[raithen.livejournal.com]

you really should get a pyr!

I know a breeder with puppies.... ;) Or, better yet, in 2 years when WE have puppies, we can choose a sister or brother for Coco. And you can come out to choose your own puppy! ;).

and Me. too!

[lietya.livejournal.com]

Awwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I like the markings on Puppy #2 better - the blaze on the gray face is just gorgeous. Not that I have any reason to prefer that look. ;)

[raithen.livejournal.com]

I declare selection bias on your part!! ;)

[lietya.livejournal.com]

Oh, and those who voted for kisses didn't have a bias? :) (For what it's worth, I picked Max in part because I loved that look before him, rather than liking it *because of* him... and it's really quite lovely on this dog. Besides, I don't know enough from dogs to use any other criteria!)

[raithen.livejournal.com]

*hee*

I'm just being silly!

Of COURSE the smooch voters are biased!! And Max is a LOVELY kitty! ;)

[lietya.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm being goofy too. they're both so unspeakably cute, there's no way to choose BUT by trivial details!

and thank you. :) Max knows it, too. (I keep meaning to mention that I love the Miss Mew icon; I have never seen a cat so perfectly and attractively straw-colored.)

[raithen.livejournal.com]

Miss Mew says "mewthanks" ;). She is a really neat cat -- her markings are perfectly symmetrical and she *IS* really a very neat colour. Plus she has this really funky personality - a combination of perfectly loyal (She is ALWAYS close when we are outside, she'll discreetly follow us ALL over the property -which is 13 acres) and yet fiercely independent (DO NOT pick me up today. NO! ;) and simultaneously affectionate (PET ME! let me sit on your lap! come up on the hay bales with me!)

She arrived in our lives a couple of years before Tigger, our 22 year old cat who was pretty special herself, died of natural causes on her own terms. Mewie took up residence in the rafters of the barn as a young thing - certainly under a year old. We figure she must have been abandoned, because she seems to be spayed (no litters yet, and we've never taken her to the vets ;). She also has an ear tatoo (which I didn't find until we'd had her a year!). A friend who knows cats says she looks like she is probably a Maine Coon, though she is on the small size for that breed. Anyway, because Tigger was aged and quite arthritic and a little blind/deaf, she had taken up residence around the house. And Mew knew the house range was Tigger's. She had the barn. When Tigger died, Miss Mew expanded her terrain to include the house. We are lucky to have had two such lovely cats!

[lietya.livejournal.com]

You *were* lucky. She clearly adopted you, too. :) She's definitely quite striking - I'm inclined to agree that there's some 'Coon in her looks, and some of the females of that breed do run small, even to the point of the occasional purebred registered MC female being 5-7 pounds. Plus, if I may say so, the tattoo may be a marking to indicate that she was picked up as a stray in a sweep and spayed (well, I dunno how things work where you are, but I know American shelters often use either ear tattoos or notching to signal to later trappers that this feral/stray is already fixed). Obviously she was a sweetheart for people, though - poor baby, she probably WAS dumped.

What a fascinating girl!

[raithen.livejournal.com]

ya, I thought that about the tattoo, myself.

and yes - we were fortunate to be adopted by her. Dad just knew she was in the rafters, so we started putting food out, and when I was home for Christmas Dad and I set up a ladder and we climbed up and I went up and wooed her over.... And as they say, the rest is history.

Tigger adopted us, too -- she arrived as an urban stray when I was six. My Gr 1 teacher, Sister Carol, had come for lunch and as we were saying goodbye, she said 'is this kitten yours?' -- as the cat who would be named Tigger rubbed against her legs. My sister and I were enthralled and insisted on bringing her inside and feeding her ground beef.

Mom and Dad made us put her outside for the night "what if she has a home? If she comes back, you can keep her." She came back, and stayed 22 years - through 5 moves! She died 1 week after my Grampa, who she also loved, and spent a LOT of time with. I think that she knew he needed a cat in heaven, and that it was time.

[rolypolypony.livejournal.com]

STOP MAKING ME CRY!!!!

[raithen.livejournal.com]

sorry! she was SOOO special. And we found her curled up in a blanket. She looked really really peaceful, which made it no less sad, but a little easier, somehow. She had a full and wonderful life!

I remember when we got my grampa a little boston terrier pup, Phoebe. Grampa lived in a cabin on our property, so Phoebe would sometimes come into our kitchen. And Tigger, who was bigger than Phoebe, would take Phoebe into one corner of the kitchen, then she'd carefully retract her claws, sit on her haunches and BAT Phoebe's head back and forth, back and forth, super fast, PUSHING her across the entire diaganol of the kitchen. Poor phoebe would get to the other side all dizzy and stunned, but she still like Tigger, for some reason. Tigger did that with Sheena, our boxer pup, too. But then Sheena got bigger than Tigger, and well.... ;)

[lietya.livejournal.com]

Aww, what a sweet story for Tigger as well. The universe knew when you needed friends.... and I love the idea that Tigger knew Grampa needed a cat in heaven.

"accidental cats" are fun. :) We went to the shelter one week to the day after our beloved and too young cat died, and Ophelia reached through the bars and literally grabbed my husband's arm - we hadn't planned on taking home a cat, but she's been living happily with us for three years now anyway!

[mircalla35.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my family adopted a stray from a local shelter years ago (Hercules!) who also had an ear tattoo thing. We thought it made him look pretty cool. He looked like he'd been through a lot in general -- his ear was also torn, probably in a fight. He totally looked like he should have a leather jacket, smoke unfiltered cigarettes and ride a Harley. But actually he was one of the lovingest cats ever. He was a big huge smushie. (Literally, big and huge. He weighed well over 20 pounds.)

*sob* Now I miss Herc.

[lietya.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sorry. :( You never do get over losing them. He sounds like the sweetest cat - all the big neutered males turn into such mellow lovebugs, from what I hear. And what a character! There's something special about taking an ex-street-fighter; you *know* he appreciates getting a loving home, soft beds, and meals on tap after that kind of life.

I'll be the last to throw stones about big cats. :) the previously mentioned Ophelia is 17 pounds (and outweighs our one male by 5 pounds to boot).

[rolypolypony.livejournal.com]

Awwwwww :)

[meeby.livejournal.com]

Puppy #2. Despite the kisses, which are tempting.

But so hard! Did you choose only from the pics?? Not even meeting them or anything? Cuz I can't imagine. . .

[raithen.livejournal.com]

well, Mom and Dad met the whole litter when they were down there a few weeks ago - the puppies were 4 weeks then. And they chose Miss Puppy. But as she has developed in the weeks since then, her jaw doesn't meet quite right, and while she MAY grow out of it, we can't take the chance, and the breeder WON'T take a chance with a show and breeding bitch. So, we were back to the drawing board.

The breeder selected these two as the best show-quality bitches, and based on the photos left the choice to us....