![Penny Dreadful, a small black puppy, sitting next to Meatball, an adult brown pitbull. She's much smaller.](https://www.octopusgallery.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/52480167079_64e6205bed_k-e1668106584826-900x828.jpg)
![Meatball sitting next to the now much larger Penny Dreadful. She looks very much like the lab mix she is, and is at 3 inches taller than Meatball](https://www.octopusgallery.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/almost-ayar-900x675.jpg)
We’re coming up on Penny’s birthday. She’ll be 1 at the end of November. We’ve had her for a bit over eight months. She was supposed to be the small dog! Those lab genes are much, much stronger than the Aussie Cattle Dog genes. At least that means while she’s a biting menace, she has a much softer mouth doing that than she could. Now if only we could get the barking to soften…