Rosie is adorable. Get her a black bed to lay on, so she can camouflage herself against it.

Here's Rosie, the newest member of the Grits family. She is four months old. Her favorite things are meeting people, eating sticks, big naps, my socks, and cheese. She tolerates car rides. Some day she hopes to catch and eat a bird. (Yikes.) In the meantime she is catching and eating as many pine cones as she can.

Rosie is a standard poodle. She has attempted to trick me in the following ways:

Stealth chewing her bed with a toy draped over her nose to hide it, all the while making guilty eye contact with me.

Smuggling a sweet gum ball into the house in her cheek to eat later which she had to drop in order to accept her post-walk treat, wide eyes at me as if she didn't look at it then I wouldn't see it sitting there.

Hiding my sock under her blanket, again presumably for later consumption. I was putting it on when she stole it.

Mr. Grits reports that she has figured out that she can reach the countertops. She's just waiting for something good enough up there to do it.