HAPPY BIRTHDAY CYPHER!! Cyboy is 2 years old today….and still a complete puppyhead. His birthday present came a little early. It is now official so I guess it’s ok to write about it here. Our family has increased by one! Two weeks ago we came home with a tiny little bundle of black and white fluff from my friend’s place (Winpara Border Collies) who was born on July 21st. We’ve decided that she has turned out to be Cypher’s most interactive toy ever and he absolutely adores playing with her. Her name is ‘Spryte’ which has always been on my list of possible girls names for my future use. Since she was the tiniest and the only girl in her litter of 7 Spryte is actually quite apt. The definition of Spryte in the Urban Online Dictionary is spookily accurate; 1.Spryte - This is a kind of mix between a sprite and a nymph, but it is very evil! Sprytes are naughty, mischievous, flirty, and cocky. They can be easily provoked to bite too. This type of fairy is usually found naked. Sprytes are almost always female in appearance, and they have wings and are able to fly at will. This sounds like exactly what I wished for and there have already been signs of this description being proved correct! She is certainly what one would call a Scrat (see Ice Age for prehistoric psycho sabre tooth squirrel) and yet has the attitude of one who has a much bigger physical presence. 6 much boofier, heavier brothers could not put her down on the ground, her feisty never-give-up nature ensured that she was always left with a victorious paw pressed firmly on the chest of her brother with said brother conceding defeat at the paws of a much slighter sibling. It took her 24 hours to break the ice with my other two – or perhaps it took 24 hours before they resigned themselves to the fact that she was not going back to where she came from! Either way she was rolling around the floor in a mock wrestling duel with both of them before she’d been here 48 hours.
So why another Border Collie I have been asked. Well firstly – why not? Secondly this was not in any way shape or form planned. I had visited this litter several times as they were growing up, saw them at a few days old, a couple of weeks old, 4 weeks old etc etc and other than noticing that it was a good sized litter with some boofy males in it and a tiny scrat of a girl I didn’t think anything of it. At 5 weeks I think I liked her attitude when I watched her with her littermates. She gave as good as she got and she was the quickest at figuring stuff out – like how to get out of the whelping box, how to anticipate where the food source was going to be emerging from next. How to tell her brothers in no uncertain terms that she was *not* a doormat. At 6 weeks I helped out with the 6 week old photo shoot. I got home and saw them uploaded to the website and absolutely saw an image of Raven at 6 weeks there. She had Raven’s same take no crap, bounce back temperament, she was built like her mum and moved like she meant business so she was obviously well constructed. However it was her facial expression in that 6 week old head shot that just plain bowled me over. It was so reminiscent of a puppy Raven that I started to think seriously about whether or not she would be available to me. The rest as they say is history. She is now 11 weeks old, and currently rolling around on the floor mock growling as she beats up Cypher who simply places a paws on her to flatten her which lasts a second before she’s up and going for his jugular again (good luck finding it in all that hair!).
She has an online gallery of photos you can check out…
In the meantime here is our most recent couple of pics of the unbathed and unbrushed scrat.
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