Puppy Recovery

We are happily in now in the fun part of puppyhood and the work of raising them to be well adjusted dogs has begun.

 Dobby sleeps in the funniest positions and is either in contact with brother or with one of us.  Yoda is very tolerant of Dobby's restlessness.  I have slept with Dobby.  And wakeup with him too.  He is constantly moving and cuddling.  Yoda is more aloof but does not like to be alone.

It's hard to get pictures of the boys at play.  They turn out like this.

 I think this is Yoda the weekend after Parvo.  Yoda and Dobby have been putting on healthy weight.  Yoda is very picky with his food and stopped eating.  I was worried and found some dog food for finicky chihuahuas and it was a hit.  But it was blended with the other two dog foods I have for them. Yoda loves to sit in the sun, if the flies leave him alone.  He had a day where he didn't want to be outside and the flies landing on him freaked him out so we went backwards in the housetraining. For some reason the flies are ridiculous right now.  But they are doing pretty well on the housetraining for being as young as they are.

Dobby is a fun loving super affectionate puppy.  He can't wait to say hi to everybody.  He has learned to fetch and picking up on training quite well.  He knows sit.  He is learning what outside means.  He has learned stay, come and leave it.  He is sharp.  Yoda is much more stubborn.  He takes a bit more time to learn as well.  He loves little bits of hot dog.  So he has also learned sit, stay, come and leave it.  He probably will either take longer to learn fetch or he just won't be interested. 
Kelsea did this Dobby but oh my gosh, he is so funny and cute.  Dobby lives up to his name.  The vets office has agreed.  My pups were the talk of the vets.  They said they were amazed at Yoda's recovery.  I took them to get what we are calling their first round of shots.  We are skeptical of the quality of the shots they got (or if they really got them) from the people we bought them from.  I took Dobby, Yoda, Spot and Sox the cat all together to the vaccination clinic.  We were there for over 2 hours but the puppies looked good and the vet tech that helped us said he heard about our puppies.  Dobby handled his shot fine.  I have had some issues with Yoda panicking when things happen too fast for him.  But the shot brought back bad memories.  He cried like he was getting hurt for a long time even after the shot was over.  Then they trimmed the pups nails.  The vet got one to close to the quick.  And he freaked out again.  So Saturday Yoda had some moments where he sounded like he was severely injured when I picked him up.  It has taken some work to get him to calm down.  He has become quite fearful.  But he was better today.  Spot doesn't mind playing with Yoda but wants her space from Dobby.  She is trying desperately to act the part of puppy.  But it is fun to see our 12 year old dog act like she is much younger.  The cat hates the whole idea of there being puppies in the house.  But she is starting to come around.  She is bigger than all of them so she can be the queen if she wants to.  I have had success crate training them and they have a wonderful night time routine.  We can put them to bed in a pen around 9 and they stay asleep until at least 7:30 before they need to go out.  I came to a conclusion last night.  The reason we got puppies must be because I have a little snoopy card thing on my vision board that says "Happiness is a Warm Puppy"  Now if only the rest of the things on my vision board would come true.

Other than that, this week has been a rough one.  One of our neighbors two houses down passed away.  I made a trip to Payette and back and now my car is fussing at me.  I had a bunch of other pieces of bad news.  I also miss my kids that aren't here.  Hannah and I are spending an awful lot of time alone together.  Which also means my household help doesn't really exist either.   You would think being home I would have lots of time to take care of things but not with puppies around.  But there is some potentially good news we got today.  We will have to see if it happens.  Lee Joe might be able to start working on a job in Burley over the winter.  That is 2 and half hours from us.  Much better than the 16 hours from home that he is now.  One way or another we are hoping he will be back closer to home soon.