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SOPHIE'S PAGE

Santa brought me something special for Christmas in 2000!

Introducing the third dog in the current Crisp dog pack --

Sophie! She is an exact replica of the type of dog British King Charles II was wild about back in the Middle Ages.

Sophie leads the pack (Molly and Jessie in background) Sophie was nine weeks old on Christmas Day, 2000. She's a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel of Blenheim coloration. And she's sweeter than chocolate! A sleeping Sophie
Sophie has grown up, but she still needs naps!

What a beauty!

 What a beauty, II !

 All the photos above are of Sophie, first as a puppy, and then as a one-year-old (*except the photo bottom right. That's Jessie, our Yorkshire Terrier. Sophie invited Jess to have a guest starring spot on this page, since Jessie doesn't have her own page.) The pictures below represent some of the world's great art from 17th to 19th centuries featuring King Charles Spaniels. Once the breed beloved by British nobility, King Charles Spaniels have now split into two breeds: the King Charles or English toy spaniel, with a small, flat, puggish face, that came from crossing the spaniel with the Pekinese when it first arrived in England from China; and the Cavalier King Charles, a return to the original, rescued from oblivion in the 1920s when an American breeder offered a prize for a dog who looked like the dogs in the old paintings.

First row: (l)  "The Three Eldest Children of Charles I," circa 1630. King Charles II, pictured here with his sisters features two toy spaniels. King Charles II loved the breed so much, it came to bear his name; (m) a Staffordshire pottery figure of a King Charles Spaniel; (r) "Queen Victoria's Favourite Pets" by Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-73). Besides a deerhound and a greyhound, the Queen's parrot and her favorite King Charles Spaniel, Dash, are featured.

King Charles the II as a boy, with his sisters and his favorite dogs

Staffordshire pottery King Charles

 Painter Edwin Landseer's portrait of Queen Victoria's favorite pets, including "Dash," the King Charles

 

 

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 We don't need no stinkin' Huskies!

Sophie & Jessie celebrate the first deep snow of the season (of course, THEY don't have to shovel!)

 His sergeant major might not think so, but obviously Sophie and Jessie both think the best part of Josh is his head!

Jessie and Sophie both think they "own" Josh, and try to stake their claims whenever he's home and down at their level.
Hawaiian-style coral graffiti My daughter took this strange shot when Sophie was on her back getting her belly rubbed!

Seems like you just can't have enough Sophie pictures. So I keep adding them!

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