Torsti, a.k.a Loving You Locomotion, b. 26.4.2006
After Arttu's first birthday
we began considering having another puppy. A litter of five puppies was
born in kennel Loving You in Tampere on the 26th of April, 2006. In
June we brought little Torsti home.
From day one, Torsti was
amazingly brisk and full of energy. He was a Dog with a capital D and
with a big ego, who unfortunately had ended up in a small frame. Though
'small' is a relative term; when Torsti was six months old he was
already bigger than Arttu. His official name, Locomotion, has turned out to be
more than prophetic, and even his pet name Torsti has been derived from
Thor, the god of thunder.
Torsti is much more sociable
and boisterous than Arttu. He is also a lot more primitive; he is the
one that always finds a nice pile of something smelly and, of course,
rolls on it. When it gets hot in the summer, Torsti digs himself a nice
cool hole in the sand, while Arttu sneaks inside to sleep on the cool
floor tiles.
Torsti loves people more than
anything (except maybe food) and enjoys meeting other dogs (though
nowadays he prefers females as they don't require him to start showing
off and pretending he is a Big Dog). Playing is his favourite pastime,
especially games that involve pulling, or fetching tennis balls. The
latter is his passion number one, he can easily fetch the ball about a
hundred times. I've tried. In general, Torsti loves anything that puts
him in the spotlight of attention. If, somehow, everyone has forgotten
his existence, Torsti will instantly start his "attention howling".
Here's a sample:
