On the head for the girl puppy and the head for the boy puppy the next rnd after Rnd 18 is Rnd 1. Rnd 18 is 12 sts at the end of the rnd. Rnd 1 is sc2tog 6 times. For the head of the boy puppy I just figured they made a mistake and I did Rnd 1 as the next rnd. Now that I started the head of the girl puppy and it says the same thing ( rnd 18 and the next rnd after rnd 18 is rnd 1) either they made another mistake but they probably didn't; I'm going to just figure Rnd 1 as the next rnd.

wondering why they wrote the pattern this way.

I forgot to tell you that it's a crocheted pattern. The boy and the girl puppies are (difficulty: intermediate). I just wonder if it's something that I don't know about ( Rnd 1 comes right after Rnd 18 in the pattern)?