| The *Pup* . . . | . . . grows ears . . . |
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| Hooper at about 6 weeks of age. The source of the "Hooper Theory" (from "Sasha's Tale" by Jacqueline Damian), Hoop slipped out in the wake of his sister Glacier's stretching of mother Blaze's birth canal. Having been spared any birth trauma, Hoop went through life with the attitude "this is easy for me, I must be great". He was. | Hooper at 3 months of age. |