WATCH ME GROW: Yuri at 17 Weeks (4 Months)

It's the end of August now.  I've been in Louisiana for 2 months.  Mom says I seem to grow a little bit every day!  One of our friends brought me a little green fuzzy hamburger toy--it squeaks!  Mom got me a brown travel bed; you can see me lying on it.  But I'd rather be on the cool floor.  It's still really hot down here!  Oh, one more thing--my mom keeps watching my ears.  I wonder why?  She says they go up and down and up and down.  Wonder what that means????

WATCH ME GROW: Yuri at 14-15 Weeks

These pictures of me were taken in late July and early August 2010.  I weigh 39 pounds now!  So I've almost doubled in size!  I like to go outside, and I like to climb in my mom's fountain in our back yard.  Mom says it's too dirty, though, so she's going to buy me a little swimming pool of my own!  I don't stay outside very long.  It's too hot!  You can see me at our back door, telling Mom I'm ready to go back inside.  Mom says I still sleep an awful lot, and my favorite place to sleep is on the cool tile of our back sunporch.  That's where I eat, too.  You can see my special food bowl that my Auntie Carol sent me from Texas.  And you can see my shiny water bucket.  Mom keeps it clipped to my crate, because I love to dump it over and splash in it!  And you can see the corner of my crate.  Mom says it's as big as the world!  That's where I stay when my mom has to go to work.

WATCH ME GROW: Yuri at 11 Weeks

I've been in my new home for two weeks now.  I'm eleven weeks old!  My mom says it's important for me to meet lots of people, so she's taking me out a little and is inviting lots of people to come to our house to visit me.  This is a carpenter who came to do some work for my mom.  He played with me, too.  He sure was nice.  But I have to tell you, it sure is hot down here in South Louisiana.  Thank goodness my mom's house is air conditioned!  I spend a lot of time sleeping on the cool tile floor.

WATCH ME GROW: My First Ten Weeks

Here I am with my brothers & sister at New Zion.  We're 5 weeks old!

My dad Lucky from New Zion Shilohs

My mom Dora & me and my brothers and sister when we were 9 days old!

My First Day in Lafayette--9 Weeks Old

Been in Lafayette a week--10 Weeks Old

My name is Yuri, and I am an ISSR Shiloh Shepherd from New Zion Shilohs, the kennel of breed founder Tina Barber and her daughter Lisa in Fillmont, New York.  I was born on April 23, 2010.  My mom is Dora and my dad is Lucky.  They're both real deal ISSR Shiloh Shepherds from New Zion.  I'm gonna look just like my dad when I grow up!  When I was 9 weeks old, I got on a big airplane and flew to my new mom and my new home in Lafayette, Louisiana.  My new mom named me Yuri, because  I was born on the Feast Day of Saint George.  Mom didn't want to name me George, so she gave me the Russian name for George--YURI!  Saint George was known as the Dragon Slayer, and my mom says I'm learning to slay a lot of dragons, too--cardboard boxes, empty plastic bottles, most of my toys, bugs and mosquitoes.  You can see pictures of me and my brothers and sisters at New Zion, my dad Lucky, my mom Dora and us kids, and then pictures of just me when I arrived in Lafayette in June 2010.  I was a big boy--even then, I weighed 21 pounds!