> Actually, the books say that they are more common in smaller litters as they > don't move as much and they have a large supply of milk. We had a swimmer > in a litter of one. Two swimmers in a litter of two, and a swimmer in a > litter of six. My friends had two swimmers in a litter of two, and my other > friend had two swimmers in a litter of two.
Do you really think there is such a thing as a *swimmer*? Or are they just slow to get up and walk? I had 2 children. One was up walking around furniture by 5 months, the other never took a single step until he was 18 months old. Couldn't these puppies just be manifesting immature muscle tone? Do swimmers ever appear 100% normal--in other words has anyone seen a typical swimmer puppy who went on to be a very good structured dog with really good front and rear movement--no tendency to cowhocks or close movement or looseness? Or is some structural fault--lack of muscle tone, whatever--contributing to it being a swimmer? In other words, we are all different. Some of us are much better runners than others, some of us much better in strength and some much better in mind. Every one of us has things we are good at and things we are not so good it. Is a swimmer just a manifestation of something that puppy is not as good at, or is it indicative of something structurally/genetically *wrong*? Not that the two aren't related, but towards which end of the scale do you think it would fall? Laura Lang Roycroft Cavaliers ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author.
