I thought it might be cool if I shared some pictures of our extended family that we met in Indiana last year. They are a great bunch, here are four of them altogether, Boiler (after Purdue of course!) the Man of their house is the only one not related to either myself or Izzie in some way. Firstly there is Tilley, she is my full sister and litter mate, yep we were born in the same litter in Napanee, Indiana on January 21st 2006! Wow I'm getting old! Anyway she is sweet and looks just like me! Well that's what the Mommins' say.
In the picture below she is the one second from the left sitting. Izzie's Mom Nittany is the black and white girl at the far left. Sami, Izzie and my half sister is the little girl second in from the right and then there is General at the far right of the picture.
Then we met Nittany, she is Izzie's mom and the kindest gentlest mommy I'd ever seen. The mommins' both said that when they we went to pick out Izzie that she allowed everyone to pick up the pups and play with them without getting mad at them for interfering with her litter, now that's a good girl!
This is Nittany with her pups, Izzie is in there somewhere with her siblings! Probably that little butt sticking out under everyone else! Izzie was only about 10 days old here. My how things have changed!
Then Sami joined their family, we didn't actually get to meet her which I am sad about because she looks like a lot of fun. She has the same dad as both Izzie and I. That would be Gunner the man himself, as the Mommins' have said, they must have broke the mold when they made him because his pups are something else!
This is mine and Izzie's dad Gunner in the picture below, now you know where I get the droopy face from!
This is the most recent picture of the gang, Sami to the far left is sure getting to be a big girl and looks a lot like our Izzie Bizze and a bit of me if I do say so myself. In fact Sami is only a couple of months younger than Izzie. Then there is Nittany, Izzie's Mom, to the far right and wow they are identical, just look at that face! My good ole sister Tilley is in there too, second in from the right and of course the man Boiler!
Check out the resemblance between Izzie, Sami and Nittany! I love this photo of Izzie when she was going through her doggie teenage look, it's the gangly phase between pup and adult when you just look funny, she reminds me of myself. She is so cute but don't tell her too often or it will go to her head!
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We had a great time when we visited the gang and the Mommins' took some photos, here we all are pre Izzie and Sami, having a great time sniffing!
Yes Brodie we did have a great time with you and Izzie's extended family. Hi it's Lexie here and since Brodie was posting some pictures of his family I wanted to put some up of my own.
This is my dad, Earl and two of my siblings, the black one is my brother and the liver one my sister, I had more but their forever families had already come to pick them up. Mommin's Rachel always tells me how much I'm like my dad because I love to fetch like CRAZY! As you can see so does my dad!
My mom, Sadie was such a kind and gentle mommy, she is black and white and tiny in size according to the Mommins'. She must have given me the super cuddly side to my personality.
Whereas my Dad, Earl is liver and white and quite a big boy, he sure enough passed on the superstar athletic gene along with some craziness, I'll admit it, hehe!
Now what about me Charlie Chops... Oh I'm all the way from New Mexico! My Grandparents on my dad's side live in Arizona and are pretty fancy but not as fancy as my mom's side of the family, apparently they are all Champions whatever that means.
My dad, his name is Luke.
My mom, her name is Lizzie with me and my brothers and sisters.
My dad used to like to remind me he was from champion bloodlines too but I really have no idea what they were all talking about. My Mommins' told me they didn't plan on getting any more pups at the time but Mommins Samantha liked to look at puppyfind.com just to see what was out there. One day she saw one of my brothers and he looked just like Brodie but with my coloring and they fell in love. This is my brother that the Mommins' think looks like Brodie.
They talked it over and decided to enquire about him. They were sad them they were told he was already sold but I was still available. Now at this point I'm beginning to sound like an after thought right? Don't worry the story gets better! So they looked at my pictures and fell even more in love, yeahy! Me and my brothers getting into mischief, I'm the one of the far right
The Mommins' tell me all the time they are so glad that my brother was taken otherwise they would have never known me and their lives would be missing something. Yeah, they would be missing me, and let's face it without me who would rearrange their shoes and hide their socks, I mean seriously! I just don't know what they would do with me. So the Mommins' drove 6 hours and my parents owners drove something crazy like 14 hours with me and we met up. It's all kinda fuzzy to me but I'm told I was cute, little and sleepy from my travels. I became best friends with Izzie right away cos we both like to play and Montie too. I really look up to Brodie and I hope one day to be as good a boy as he is... but don't tell him that! Not forgetting my girl Lexie we have the most fun playing with the ball... at least I do when I steal it from her! So all in all a happy tale I would say and I am happily the Prince of the backyard! Check out how cute I was, how could they possibly resist me!
Hey hang on what about me, Montie? Ha gotcha, I was kind of a rushed pick up you could say and so the Mommins didn't have time to take any pictures of my parents but they did get to meet them. As I remember it I was starving and sad. The mean breeder came and grabbed me out of my dark kennel and took me into the house, I was terrified. I was cowering around and saw two new faces, they looked different to the usual faces and now I know why, they were smiling at me instead of frowning. I had only known a mean frown directed towards me up until then. I was coaxed with treats which I readily took since I was starving. Even though I wasn't selling myself too well, Mommin's Samantha scooped me up into her arms, I was only a baby after all.
Then she took me out and into their car. I was so scared but also a little excited and hopeful that this could be a new beginning. I never in my wildest dreams thought it would be what it has turned out to be! I am now a California boy, taking trips here, there and everywhere even road trippin' across the country with my trusty pack. I get to go hiking in Napa and see the mountains and beautiful vineyards even though all I care about is getting as dirty as possible, hehe. I have two amazing Mommins' and the best Brother and sisters in the world. I have an unlimited cuddle supply and a house with back yard to call my own. So you see folks I don't need any pictures nor do I want them to remind me of the bad times, all I care about is my pack and the good times we've had and will have to come!
Me and the B-Man napping
That's all from us Today on Daily Dog, hope to see you again soon!
