Growing Like A Weed

Cowboy is growing quickly!  In four weeks he's grown four inches and gained seven pounds.  I won't be able to lift him up over the gate for much longer. 
I'm not sure if his growth is typical for an eleven week old pup - he still seems pretty small to me.  But maybe he'll be on the smaller side; his mom was and if he only tops out at 40 pounds or so I certainly wouldn't mind that at all.  

He's growing enough that he can get up on the furniture however, as he proved to me yesterday. As i was fixing supper for him and Kizzy, my other Aussie, he got so excited that he leaped right up onto the recliner!  He started eyeballing the counter top too, and I just know that he is calculating just how far of a jump it would take to get onto the counter.  He is too smart for his own good!  

For the first couple of weeks I made sure he learned to wait at the top of the back steps until I told him it was ok to go down, because he'd tried leaping off of the porch his second day here!  I was so very worried that he'd injured himself but he just kept right on going.  But now when I let him out, he still stops and waits for me, and turns to look at me as if to say "Now? Can I go down the steps now?" And then when I let him go he takes off like a rocket, racing all over the yard. He is incredibly fast, and not the least bit afraid of climbing over things or going under, and can already jump over Kizzy (she isn't very tall though)..  A new back deck is leaning against the side of the house, waiting for better weather to be installed and he races back and forth through the "tunnel"  - he'll be a good agility dog! 

And apparently teething causes a puppy's ears to do all sorts of strange things. At eight weeks his ears rolled back just like an Aussie's ears should.  But now they stand up straight, fold at the tips like a Border Collie and sit right up on top of his head like a Sheltie. Drives me crazy and I can't wait until they get back to looking like Aussie ears again.