I wrote my wife a check to cash at the bank. I saw it on the kitchen table at noon yesterday. I got home last night, and she said she couldn't find it. I immediately crawled under under the dining room table and, sure enough, found two tiny scraps of paper, one with a couple of barcode type numbers. Seems obvious that Molly was digesting the rest.
Greg Peck

both our dachshunds will jump into the shower while it's on. they love showers!

We have a Cairn who is 6, and a Scottie who is 2. Although they don't haven't had accidents in the house for ages, or chew things up beyond recognition, I think that terriers in general are absolute characters. We are busting a gut every day with the antics that these guys pull every day. Our Cairn still dumpster dives everyday, knows the "green" towel means bathtime.. and will figure out a way to get into our closet when the door is closed just to check it out. Our Scottie will steal tissues, socks, napkins, anything within reach and hide it in his bed. He also thinks its fun to pull the dish towels off of the oven door and shake them to death every day. They are a blast, and I would't have it any other way.

I have two very polar opposite goldren retrievers. One is whip smart. Will ring a bell hanging on the door when she needs to go out, will play fetch with you for hours if you'd let her, learned roll over, sit pretty and high five in a matter of a day. "Miley" never misses a chance to assume "lapdog" status as I am trying to work on my laptop by crawling INTO the recliner with me (and at 70lbs, that's a feat!), and she loves to be outside running, walking, or rolling around in the snow. She's only 10months old, and shows her age with her tenacity and spunk, despite her keen smarts.

Now my OTHER retriever, "Brewer", is a purebred English Retriever, snow white, and is dumber than a box of rocks! Literally when you say something to him you wonder if he's processing it or if he's deaf and didn't hear you. His days usually consist of chewing things to bits, sleeping, eating, sleeping some more, reluctantly panting through a walk with us, eating, sleeping and, you guessed it, sleeping some more. He doesn't fetch, or shake, or come, or stay, or roll over or lay down, but he has 'Sit' (on occasion). He loves to love. He cuddles with the best of them, and will lick my fiance's bald head for an hour everyday as his sign of admiration of him (yeah they are attacheed at the hip), but dumb is a nice way of putting how really complacent this dog is. And at only two months shy of Miley, one would think he'd be getting it eventually. But alas, no. He's still just as DUH as he was the day we brought him home.

While they are both such polar opposites, having the two personalities is fun and neat seeing how different they truly are and enjoying each of their qualities. It's like having children. You love them the same amount for different reasons. :) Love my babies (the two AND four-legged ones)!

I don't know if yellow labs ever grow out of being a puppy. I'm not into tricks much. All I really expect of our dogs is that they come when I call them, sit and lay down when I tell them to and be house broken. Both of our labs will shake hands sometimes, sometimes they won't.

we use the "hand" gun bang on Mousse too. He will then either, lay down, lay on his back, roll over, sit, or just stand there with that "where's my treat" look. ???
not exactly dog whisperer quality, but it makes it fun anyways.

In my opinion if a dog is happy and,healthy they will always act like a puppy.!We have a 10 year old lab and she still cracks us up !

I taught my rescued dog to play dead when I say "bang" and shoot her with my fingers as a gun. Sometimes it's a slow "death" since she usually lifts her head up to see if her acting was good enough for her to get the treat. If not, she puts her head back down for about a millisecond more. This trick took about 2 days for her to learn. She can also "sit pretty", and give high fives.
As far as when they become an "adult"...it's the same as humans. Just because their biological age is one number, doesn't mean they always act that number!

My Cairns were out of puppy stage between ages of 2-3!
By this time .. no more accidents in house ..
even after a 12 hour shift!
No more chewing everything in sight!
Although, as you know,
they will remain full of
puppy playfulness until the day they die!

Greg,It sounds like your puppy/dog is acting like a two year old child. That said, my dog is almost 7 and he still acts like that. Go figure.

I'm still laughing at "purberty" HAhahahahaha!!!
Cute puppy BTW.

Great cover Kubotan. Gotta admit though, I thought like Greg did.

My German Shepherd still acts like his food is caffeinated or laced with speed... he's 1.5 yrs old. I heard 2 yrs old. Dictionary defines puppy as a young dog especially one less than a year old.

and yes , very attractive dog. already starting to look like you!

greg, the point was to let the people who read the comments on this blog how miserable he/she is.

hope that clears things up for you!

Kubotan: This is a blog, not part of our print product, so I'm missing your point.
Greg Peck

Very good looking dog Greg. I`ve always heard that dogs are adults at 1 yr old.

PS: My Colts flag is at half staff.

I thought they went into purberty after 3-4 months old. They say feed them puppy food for 1 year.....So I thought they were adults at 1. Some books say don't breed them until they are two.

Our mini doxie Davie just turned 6 months. our standard doxie Mousse is 4. I consider them both puppies. I think they stop becoming puppies when you stop being entertained and encouraging them to be so.