Still Growing!

We measured Cooper today and he is 25 inches at the shoulder. He can almost reach the counter when he stretches his neck. It's a good thing that he hasn't really figured out how to jump up or get his two front feet up on things. He must be close to 60 lbs by now, I weighed him last week and he was around 57 lbs. It is getting hard for me to hold him while standing on a scale.

Playtime!

And the basket after playtime........

The living Room after Cooper entertains himself for the morning

Cooper's toy basket before playtime

Kids,Kids, and more Kids!

Cooper had an exciting playtime with our 5yr old nephews, a fun time was had by all. Cooper is so good around the kids.

It's Official

Cooper's registered kennel name is: CHRMA CLRWKS Roll Out The Barrel-call name Cooper.
We decided on this after finding out that a "Copper" is a barrel maker. We thought that was pretty cool!

Such a hard life!

This is how I found Cooper sleeping this morning!

What? I dont have anything in my mouth!

Oops, it slipped out!
Cooper's mouth is now so big that he can hide an entire tennis ball in it. Yes, he does have the ball in his mouth in the top picture!

Is this thing connected to me?

Cooper often entertains himself by chasing his tail. He goes round and round until he falls down and then continues to bite on his tail.

Cooper's Hotel Stay

We took a little road trip with Cooper and he stayed in a hotel for the first time. He did really well. While we were there, he discovered how much fun it is to play with ice cubes. It was pretty funny to watch!

A boy and his toys-can't decide which one he wants

Tonight we took Cooper to the North St.Paul classic car show. He was the hit of the show. I dont think people were even interested in the cars once we got there. People even stopped to take his picture. There wasn't one person that walked by us that didn't either stop and ask to pet him, or made some comment to us in passing.

We heard "Oh my look at the size of those feet!" 800 times. Of course no one knew what breed he was, and when we told them Great Dane, some said "oh that's what I thought", while others were like " he doesn't look like a Dane".

I think we are going to get T-shirts made that say-"Yes, he is a Great Dane..Yes he has big feet..No he's not a horse and we don't have a saddle for him."

One lady said-"That looks like a horse in dogs clothing"..that was probably the funniest comment.

Many people commented on how gorgeous he is and how beautiful his markings are. One guy was convinced that he was a "piebald", obviously he doesn't know his great Dane markings. Then when we told him he is a Merle, he was sure that they are one in the same. Anyway, I gave up on that conversation.

Well, we had a good time and Cooper go lots of attention, which he loved!

Kindergarten Graduation!

Cooper has officially graduated from puppy obedience kindergarten! Some days he was the best behaved puppy in the class, other days he seemed to want nothing to do with obedience, and just wanted to play. Everyone in the class laughed hysterically at him when we did the "come" command and he would bolt across the room to me, usually tripping over his own feet and face planting it.

In puppy kindergarten he has learned to sit, lay, stand, roll over, shake, walk nice on a leash and come when called. He definitely has the sit, lay, shake, and roll over down to a tee, even when a treat isn't present. He will come when called if he feels like it, maybe 60% of the time, so we need to work on this. He walks pretty well on the leash, staying with his walker and not pulling, but if he does see something he really wants, he goes for it. We have also taught him "leave it" which he does really well. We have taught him to sit and wait for his food, as well as sit and wait when going out the door and coming back in. Over all I feel he is doing well. We will hopefully be starting his next obedience class soon.

He has recently had a bit of a personality change. He has had an increase in energy and has become more daring and persistent with things. He has decided that it is is fun to run from me when he has something he's not supposed to, he used to drop it when told to :(

Cooper's floppy lips

Cooper rides in the back of our SUV. He likes it when we roll the windows in the back seat down so he can stick his head out over the seats and catch the breeze.

Playtime

Gimme the camera..gimme..gimme..gimm...

Cooper's new rug

We have laminate flooring throughout our place, and other then the papasan mattress we bought Cooper at Cost Plus, he'd been slip sliding around the floor. After a suggestion from Jennifer, we went to Menard's and bought Cooper a rug, so he's got a bigger area of carpet to run around, and hopefully not slip slide as much!

Cooper in the car on the way to see Jennifer, mom, dad, and his brothers.

Cooper in the car
Originally uploaded by stevetierney

We drove an hour to go see Coopers' first human mom Jennifer, Ryu(daddy), Amour(mommy), brothers Zen, Poet, and Ryu Jr., and of course aunt Bug (Ladybug).
Jennifer said that he looked beautiful, healthy and happy.
He was so excited to see everyone. It was obvious that he remembered mom and dad (Amour and Ryu).
We all had a great time!

Cooper vs. Roomba

Cooper likes to play with our Roomba, here's a video...

Cooper is 44.7 lbs at 3 months

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Originally uploaded by stevetierney

We took Cooper to the vet today. He's 44.7 lbs and 21" to the shoulder.

Loud yawns

Cooper usually wakes Steve up in the morning with a bunch of these consecutively.

35 LBS

Cooper at 35 Lbs

Cooper goes swimming

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Originally uploaded by stevetierney

We took Cooper to the lake this weekend and out for a swim. At first we tried seeing if he'd walk into the water, which he didn't like. However, we set him in the water, to see if he would swim, and he acted like a fish!