Cobalt: Visiting Mattie and Wendy

A week ago, we headed down to London to meet my mother's new dog, Wendy. My mother decided to get Wendy after seeing how much fun Mattie had with Cobalt. Wendy's another Coton, a four-year-old (Mattie's one year at this point).

Oddly, though Wendy's four times as old as Mattie, she's also only about 3/4s Mattie's size.

Wendy

Cobalt and Mattie hit it off like they usually do. Wendy kept out of it for the most part.

The Chase



Closing In



The Lunge



Bop!

Wendy has a trick of her own, though: she can dance.

Of course, where there are tricks and treats, Cobalt wants in on the action!

The Puppy Two-Step

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Cobalt: Last Photos With Mattie

Here are a few selections from the last set of photos with Mattie:

Cobalt's usually very quiet, but she got quite vocal with Mattie as they played.


Not to mention bouncy.


At one point, she grabbed Mattie's tail and got dragged around the yard.


Mattie's ears are just ridiculous when she's running around.

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Cobalt: Cobalt & Mattie In The Snow

More photos from Sunday. There's one more set after this one, but taking care of Cobalt after work takes up a lot of prime photo-prepping time.

Mattie doesn't usually get this animated.


Mattie looks like a seal. Where are her legs?


The two of them burned off a lot of energy.


Normally, the shepherd's supposed to corner the sheep.
Cobalt hasn't got up to that page in the manual, I guess.

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Cobalt: Mattie Photos

I am exhausted. Cobalt had us up at 11:30, 2:00, 2:30, 3:30, 5:30, and 6:15 last night. We need to get her on a schedule. She's taken to whining to go out to pee, then once she's back in her crate (on the third floor with us) whining to go out again for another go.

But before all that, I got the first of the Cobalt & Mattie photos up on Flickr. These ones are from their first, indoor romp.

Cobalt & Mattie


Still not quite sure what to make of the new creature


Being an Aussie, Cobalt doesn't know what a tail is


Cobalt tries to herd Mattie


BFF

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Cobalt: Mattie

This Sunday, we were having family over to meet the new pup. My mother was coming up from London to see the COC production of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, and was going to come by for dinner after, where we'd be joined by my siblings.

On Saturday, though, she called and said her dogsitter had cancelled out on her, and could we watch Mattie, her Coton De Tulear, while she was at the opera?

Mattie

We figured this would be a great opportunity to socialize Cobalt with another dog her size -- and if they didn't get along, we could always put Mattie in the pen. for the duration.

Well, they got along. As soon as Mattie was in the door, the two of them were racing around the living room at top speed. Mattie looks like a little sheep, and Cobalt was keen on herding her. It was a good half-hour before they calmed down at all.

After my mother left, we took the two outside, and they were even more hyper than they had been in the living room -- round and round the yard, chasing each other non-stop. In all they had three outside sessions like that, and were exhausted by the time my mother got back. We shot about 500 photos (burst mode is very useful when photographing hyper puppies!), and we'll have some choice ones posted soon!

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