Profile: Holdbacks, Part 1

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For these next short entries, we are profiling our four holdbacks from the 2011 Hills-Alex litter. Born on September 14, 2011, all four just hit their one-year birthdays, and are shaping up nicely. We will cover two babies a week over the next two weeks. This is part one of the four-part series.

Kilimanjaro is the little punk of the litter. He was feistiest of the group on the day they were born, nipping me not once but several times as I transferred him to the scale and his drawer. He also proved to be the athlete of the group, once managing to bolt his drawer to the floor in a quick (and quickly terminated) escape attempt.

Here is Kilimanjaro as of his birth in September 2011:


Here he is at six months in March 2012:


And here he is at one year in September 2012:

Outside


Inside


He now weighs 218 grams, placing him a few months ahead of the usual growth curve for a Brazilian of his age. Going forward, we hope he will develop into a solid red specimen.

Thank you for reading,