The flying Papillon welcome my wife home

My wife's been in the hospital for migraines for 2 weeks, the longest stay since we've been in Chicago, and one of the longest ever.

This is her being welcomed home by adorable and gravity defying dogs.

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Pets & Animals

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• papillon
• dog
• dogs
• migraine
• migraines
• mums

[onlyababa]

Why is there hair so flat? Do you trim them? Also 12lbs is a little TOO big for a pap, especially at 8 months. They're supposed to be 10lbs max.

Not being a busybody or anything, but it's just that so many breeders and BYBs are being careless with their breeding pairs and matching two large dogs and making the dogs larger than the breed standard. Sorry if I seem rude!

[Tourtruco]

That's very sweet of you to care about being rude, but I'm not offended.

My wife is disabled, I'm a full time caregiver of her and now also my mother and trying to finish my nursing degree, so no, we don't trim them. If it isn't essential, it doesn't happen around here.

We got them from what we thought were good breeders, but you're right, this is outside breed spec. Since we want them for love, not show, it doesn't matter to us. We had one puppy for our own purposes, but not having any more

[onlyababa]

Thank you for taking my comment graciously, because it was one purely of concern and I didn't want to see like I was being jugemental or anything. It doesn't really matter what a dog looks like as long as you love them, my concern was purely about them being, as you say, "outside breed spec", because to me that says the breeder you got them from isn't breeding their papillions properly purely based on their size. I have a big girl in my life too though, and I love her all the same. :)

[Tourtruco]

Yes, our large male, we did get from pet store outside St. Louis, so we don't know much about how or where he was bred. We were told that he was discounted because he was "mutant" in being too large for showing, but he's been the dearest most loyal dog we've ever had.

That attribute seems to have been passed on to his puppy, Ambrose. But he's the last puppy we're going to have... we wanted to raise one from day one, and now we have.

When people are being judgmental, there's little ambiguity

[Tourtruco]

subtlety, or thoughtfulness. You comment was thoughtful, and easily allowed a construction other than "Here's another person venting his spleen on someone he's never met because he can get away with it" as you see on Youtube so often. I only get it rarely- videos of Papillon or waves crashing on the shore rarely attract those sad people, but their comments are like the droppings of seagulls... much as you avoid them, there'll always be one flying overhead you don't see. ;>

[xiabelle]

Super cute!

Mine's big too (a good 12 inches at the shoulder) but yours are bigger! But mine's only 8 pounds... Mine acts like you've been gone for days when we go outside, too.

[Tourtruco]

Thanks... I'm sure yours is an incredible dear too... I've never met a pap who wasn't!

[SnarkAngel]

Still one of my fave Tourtruco vids ever!

[Tourtruco]

Otto, what a great name! Its a palindrome!

The B&w was almost 4, the other one maybe 8 months?

[Tourtruco]

Quite right... as it is said, "Having a papillon means never having to go to the bathroom alone!"