#whippet_moments
Our Castorp is now four and a half years old. He's our first Whippet, so I have no personal experience of general patterns, but it seems to me that he's come to his own, still playful but with an added layer of serenity.
He's nimble and curious. He soaks up my daughters' noisy affection with childlike joy. His eyes when he looks at me are deeper than ever. He runs for joy, his own pure undiluted joy. When we walk as a family, he walks ahead and checks the environment, his family's safety depends on it. He sits near me in quiet contentment, not moving one bit. I do a noisy bookcase search near his den in the middle of the night (I need that book!) --- he stays cool, he knows it's me. He does his rhoah-rhoar-rhour growl when family members play or cuddle without him. At night he looks at me just to check. He rolls on his back, all legs in the air, and gets belly rubs from my daughters. Bless you, Castorp.
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