Gil's former foster puppies!

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Note: this has nothing to do with anything.

Sad story, then cute puppies! <3

The history behind these guys is that they were deliberately bred by someone who thought their Jack Russell Terrier and Cairn Terrier made cute puppies; a backyard breeder. The mom had puppies while no one was there and died during birth (cause is unknown). These guys were found suckling on their dead mom. There was originally seven, and we took four. Another foster home took three. Unfortunately, all three of theirs died because of inexperience (two became sick and weren't brought to the vet in time, one toddled out of its crate, which was on a high table. And then they had the gall to ask to foster one of ours, or to adopt one of ours). All four of our babies survived, including a very sick runt, who came to us with extremely irritated skin.

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Barrett

Barrett was the biggest of the bunch and the most Jack Russell Terrier, meaning that he's insanely hyper. He was adopted out to the advisor of my Explorer post, where he's extremely happy. He has the most pictures on my computer because I made a present for his mommy and didn't import the other pictures.

At three weeks:

--there's a little Gil in the background of this. xP

--not my hands. xP

--not me again

Five Weeks:

--again, not me. My sister.

--my sister and dad's hands, this time.

--that's my oldest dog sniffing him. She liked the babies. (:

--him and Zelda

Eight Weeks:

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Zelda

Zelda was the biggest girl, and when she was little, she was nearly an identical twin to Zack (thus the themed names). She went to a family with two older kids. Having watched them with her at the adoption fair, I am very happy with them as a home. For some reason, she was the most popular pup at the fair, and we got swarmed with people asking about her, even after she was gone.

Three Weeks:









Five Weeks:

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Zack

Zack was a cutie-pie! If I was going to keep one of the pups from this litter, it would have been him. When he was younger, he was noticeably much smaller than Zelda and Barrett, but they evened out within a few weeks. I don't really have any good pictures of him on this computer, but when he got older, he looked JUST like Albert Einstein (he had dark, expressive eyes, and little tufts of hair all over). He went to an adult family after the fair was over who passed applications and the like.

Three Weeks:





--JESUS CHRIST IT'S A GIRAFFE

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Shelby

Shelby was the disadvantaged little runt. In these pictures, you can see my mum holding her head up, because she was so little and weak that we weren't getting her face. :< She was about five days 'slower' than the other pups. When you get to six/seven weeks or so, the difference isn't noticeable, but at three weeks, it's very big. She always was a little bit strange-looking. xP My mum got naming rights for her, but I'm of the opinion that Gizmo would have been best. Her eyes were a little bulgy and she had this awkward little waddle. Adorable! I loved her to pieces. She got adopted by a couple in Rhode Island, who took her through Petco and bought everything she sniffed.

Three Weeks:

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Group

--this picture is from when they were younger, but I'm not 100% sure of when. On the bottom is Zelda, in the middle is Shelby, and the big fattie on the top is Barrett.

--Left to right: Zack, Shelby, Zelda, and Barrett. You can kinda see what I was talking about with Shelby, and you can tell that Zelda lost some of the bulkiness she had as a baby.

--Left to right: Zelda, Shelby (hiding like a stealth ninja), Zack, and Barrett.

--Left to right: Zelda, Barrett, Zack

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O3O HOMG THEY'RE SOOOOOOO CUTE! -steals-