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At 9.5 months old, Gavin is clumsy, clumsy, clumsy.  He trips, stumbles, wipes out when running in a circle, he will even run into phone poles when we are walking (I am looking ahead and he is looking at something off to the side).  He is all legs and seems to not have a great deal of control over them.  He is 64lbs and 27 inches at the shoulder.  He has hurt his leg twice due to his clumsy behaviour.  When can I expect him to grow out of this?  Or will he never be athletically gifted?
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LOL Hunter is a total klutz, she is always tripping running up the steps, she constantly runs into the screen door when it is closed - I even put a line of masking tape on it so she would see it and stop! Didn't work. She fell off the couch while she was napping the other day. I was wondering to if it is just a phase - like that gawky adolescent age. Hunter is a little over 1 now and is about 55 lbs not sure of her height..........
Darwin was EXACTLY the same. He ran in to everything, walls, doors, people... :-) Everyone said it was cute, but I was worried about him. If he got up to a certain speed while running, he would automatically crash and burn, just because he couldn't control himself.

He just recently became A LOT better. He's running faster, and falling less. He is 1 year old now... and the changes started at 10 or 11 months. So I think he'll grow out of it!
I think this is a riot! I have an athletic, graceful Dood, and a total "clutz"! You've probably guessed that Murph is my big, clumsy guy. We laugh just watching him walk...stumbling, falling over his own feet, bumping into things. It's like he just hasn't developed a good feel for his rapidly growing body....he doesn't know what to do with it. There will be no agility for my Murph, he'll just be lucky not to hurt himself. I'm not counting on him growing out of this. Wouldn't it be fun to see Gavin and Murph together?
Yes it would be fun! Too bad we live 1000km apart.

My co-worker has a 2 year old dood from the same breeder and we met up at the dog park on Saturday. Charlie was lightening fast and jumped from all fours to the height of my shoulder to grab a frisbee. Gavin was trying to keep up, but it was quite ridiculous. He was dog tracking, stumbled and came up lame on a leg that was bothering him a few weeks ago. So the fun was over. Luckily no long lasting effects. DH thinks he was faking the injury as an excuse for not being able to run with Charlie - you know, I could keep up, but my leg is sore!
Oh yeah, and it was muddy at the dog park on Saturday, so probably pretty slippery too ;)

Ned is graceful. For example, he can vertically leap into the air and somehow levitate himself sideways to land on the couch. He is very light on his feet and it isn't just because he is a small guy. Clancy - well...... Getting Clancy at two, I just expected that he would be coordinated, graceful and all that good stuff. When we first got him, he kept running into furniture and walls and stumbling over things. I was so worried that he had vision problems that I discussed it with the vet. Now that he has settled into our home, he is much less clumsy. I wonder if he wasn't around much furniture and if he didn't have haircuts that cleared the hair around his eyes. And he fetches - not like the athletic a dancing doodle, but more like a linebacker football player doodle.
LOL! Murphy is 100lbs of klutz. He is almost 4 and its a little better. He still likes nothing better than running wide open and doing "fly bys"-we don't fear for our lives quite as much now. He still wipes out regularly at full speed. He has ripped out both dew claws in grass less than 6 inches tall. We do agility though he isn't very agile. My friend says he is a Boeing 747 instead of an F15 fighter jet. But he runs with a smile on his face ;-)
Koda is a total klutz, yet super agile. Does it sound oxymoronic? He walks into lamp posts, crashes into sliding door, bangs his head on walls, doors and people. Yet, he bounces around like Tigger (his body is like a compressed spring) and spins and changes direction mid air, we call him our Michael Jordan. His favorite stunt is running at breakneck speed into our sofa, catapult himself off it and torpedo right into Zooey.

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