Those are some great pics everyone. Cow, whoever is taking yours is quite the photographer, really nice!
I have a bit of an interesting story to go along with my pics here. This first picture is of Xiao Mi (pronounced Shao Me - meaning 'little rice') and Xiao Mai (Shao My - 'little wheat') as pups. We bought them off the street out of a little cage and about a week after we got them they became deadly sick and almost died. If it wasn't for my wife's nursing, neither of them would probably be with us today.
They were both great dogs and practically inseparable:
Then one day the boy, Xiao Mai, decided he needed to get his rocks off in another dog that lives in our building a couple floors up. Not long after that he ran away from home and left all three of us in tears for a long time. Xiao Mi probably more than anyone as she cried for him a long while after.
Now, I'm not a religious person in the least, but I do believe a small miracle occurred as we found out that he had gotten the dog from the other family pregnant and she was about to have pups, so we managed to talk the owner into letting us have first pick of the litter. There was one pup, a little girl, that looked almost identical to our Xiao Mai and we had to have her. We gave her an English name, Misty.
At first Xiao Mi hated this little rascal! Who was this little runt trying to take Xiao Mai's place? But after about a week started to get a bit more comfortable with her and now would defend her little niece to the death if she had to and often gets into scraps with other dogs who get too close to Misty.
So, although losing Xiao Mai was very difficult and heart breaking, we were blessed with getting his daughter.