Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Piacere, two months old

Piacere has become two months old today, which is equivalent to three years old fot human beings.
Leaving the round baby face behind, she has started showing the signs of a beautiful girl.
    
The conditions for Scottish Terriers to be a beauty, i.e. "Breed Standard", which is used to judge in dog shows are...
Please read the following descriptions referring to the photo above.
First of all, a long head,The length between occiput and stop is the same as the length between stop and the point of nose.Flat forehead.Smooth outline from under the ears to the tip of nose, without pushing out of cheek bones.Tapering from under the eyes to the tip of nose, but not week muzzle.
Some say that, viewing from the front, the entire head looks like a brick.
How do you judge Piacere?

Monday, February 23, 2009

Piacere of the day: February 22

I have made a challenge to take snapshots of mother and baby, although Piacere is too young to "stay" under the direction of "stay!".
The three generation with her mom and grandma. Both mom and grandma look uncomfortable, and Piacere seems not to have room to look forward as her both sides annoy her.
   A snapshot with only mom shows more relaxation on Piacere's expression.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Piacere of the day: February 20

A proverb says "the more a baby sleeps, the more it grows", puppies sleep very well.
  Piacere sleeps in the cage comfortably, not only on bed.
When her granma, Pizicato, come close to the cage, Piacere sits up abruptly, and extends her fore leg to call Pizzicato.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Piacere of the day: February 17

Piacere's ears have started standing.

  

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Piacere of the day: February 16

We are houted by Piacere, as she grows daily and changes her movement and behavior.
When Piacere is released from the cage, Pizzicato and Pieta follows her. Leeds and Chilwell shows much less interest. Leeds, however, keeps watching for Piacere from a distance and immediately comes close if something unusual happens. This may be caused by Leeds' awareness of being the leader. Chilwell, on the other hand, escapes as Piacere approaches her.
At first, Piacere vigorously fawns on Pizzicato and jumps to Pizzicato's beard, but once she was bitten by Pizzicato, the puppy stopped jumping to Pizzicato. She has started learning.
Piacere is sleeping, laying her head on the edge of the bed.
Sometimes Piacere sleeps on her back.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Piacere makes her debut!

Sorry to have kept you waiting, this is the debut of the fifth doggy of my family.
After a long and difficult consideration of selecting one female out of the three, I brought back one to our home tonight.
(The white line on her forehead is a trace of chewing gum, and is not a white hair.)
Her registered name is WELDBANK JP DREAMS COME TRUE, and her call name is PIACERE.
PIACERE is an Italian word, meaning "joy" or "pleasure". This name has been selected to follow the stream of names with "pi-" sound at the beginning; i.e. her great grand-mother "Pisala", grandmother "Pizzicato", and her mother "Pieta".
Piacere is meeting her mother at Nakahara-san's home.
Pieta has not been trimmed since a couple of weeks before the birth of the puppies, which resulted in miserable appearance. So, we have had her trimmed by Nakahara-san.
While we had been anxious about the reactions of older dogs of our home, Leeds (Westie, 12 years old) and Chilwell (Cair Terrier, 10 years old) showed little interest in Piacere.