In the beginning...

For years I've been saying that my old horse sheds so much fur in the spring I could make another animal out of it. A few years ago, I decided to do it.

My first attempt:

I should mention, those are 50lb bags of grain in the background. This was a pretty large doggie.

He became a "he", courtesy of my friend Suzanne:

And the next day, he'd moved a bit:

And so it began...