Surviving the Melee

Hannah & Maggie, doing what they do best
(and ALL the time!!)

Whewee, we'd forgotten how much work puppies can be and the need for constant supervision. We did breakdown and purchased a wire crate for them. Big enough for now but probably not in a few months, hopefully they'll be housebroken by then and we can sell it or donate it.

They are both doing well, we've had a couple of pee accidents and one poop incident but other than that they go outside, they are even beginning to come up to us when they need to go! Progress!!! YEA!!!!!!!!!!! They go in for their second set of puppy shots on Monday.

Maggie

Hannah

Pressie is still doing well, she will come up to me now inside or outside, sitting or standing which is HUGE! She is still leery if I walk up to her without her really 'wanting' me to, but she is learning to play with the puppies and me. It's actually kinda funny - she is really mimicking Hannah & Maggie, trying to be a puppy like them. Sad too I guess, thinking that she had to learn to play & finally get to be a 'puppy' at a year & a half old. It is so terrific to see her running around the yard with her beautiful tail curled over her back, leaping and sniffing and playing like a 'real' dog. She even growled a bit at a dog she saw thru the back door... first sound I've heard from her other than a whimpering dream and some whines when I'm in the bathroom; heck its the first 'dog-like' reaction I've seen from her other than the recent playing events. She is also going up the stairs, hiding out for a few minutes then she comes racing back down to see what we are up to - before the pups we would have to block off the stairs or she would go up there and hide for hours, never coming down unless we made her. Now its like her reprieve from puppy-madness.

Pressie taking a breather

Pressie & the girls

As much as we hate to, we are going to try and get her to the adoption site on Saturday. Pressie is still pretty wary of being on a leash & out and about with other people so I'm sure this will completely traumatize her. We'll bring her back if no one adopts her but we just can't keep three dogs and she just isn't warming up to Bryan - well she did come up to him yesterday when he had both H & M crawling all over him - I think she is a bit jealous. :-)