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	Dim Sum at 1 year Happy Birthday!
	Dim Sum in his new home in Virginia. Photographed Nov 2006
	Dim Sum with his new Mommy! Pictured at 9 weeks
	Picture Perfect Pictured at 7 weeks old!
	Stacking pose at 5 weeks!
	Dim Sum at 1 week
	1 day old!

November 15, 2006

Hello LaRinda,

I just thought I’d drop you a line since I hadn’t contacted you in a while. Dim Sum is growing rapidly. When we took him for this 2^nd set of shots on November 10^th, he weighed almost 20 lbs. The employees at the vet’s office all love Dim Sum. One of the employees even recognized him on her day off when we took him out to a strip mall for a stroll.

We take Dim Sum out whenever we can, for short visits to the pet shops or to walk up and down the local strip malls. Yesterday, I went to the health food store and everyone, including the store clerks and customers went crazy over Dim Sum. One of the customers was a dog breeder herself who used to show dogs, and she said she could tell Dim Sum came from good breeding stock. When we took him for a stroll around Old Town Alexandria (a dog friendly, upscale tourist area) all manner of passersby wanted to stop and pet him and asked all kinds of questions. He’s like a tourist attraction himself!

But of course, attracting attention is not the reason why Dim Sum has endeared himself to my family. Dim Sum has endeared himself to us because he’s so cute and intelligent and good. Well, he’s good 95 percent of the time. The other 5 percent of the time, he does seem to get over excited and rough in the evenings, but we hope this will taper off with age. I assume his rough housing is just part of normal puppy behavior. But other than that, he’s an absolute joy.

He’s been to two puppy kindergarten classes so far and seems to be ahead of the curve when learning new things. My brother does a good job in working with Dim Sum on his “homework” but we haven’t exactly been using the clicker the way they want us to.

Dim Sum’s next immunization appointment is scheduled for November 29^th but I may postpone that a few days because I just signed up for pet insurance, and I’m hoping that it will take effect in time to pay for his next set of shots.

Anyway, that’s all I have for now. I see you have a new litter to tend to so, I won’t take up too much of your time. If I don’t hear from you, I want to wish you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving.

Take care. I hope to hear from you soon.

All the best,

Margaret

Updated 10/15/2008