The new girls are living inside along with Esther, our Rottweiler, and Betty, our Beagle mix. Esther and Betty are both nine years old, so we weren’t sure how they would take to having puppies around. Esther has been very receptive. She spends quite a bit of time in the room with them and even tries to play with them some. She’s very selfish with her toys, but that’s nothing new. Betty, on the other hand, wants absolutely nothing to do with them! She’s spent the majority of the past two days hiding out in my office (which is off limits to the pups). I feel bad for her, but she’s just going to have to adjust.
I had forgotten how demanding and time consuming puppies are!! Thank goodness for baby gates and vinyl floors. It’s only been 48 hours, so there hasn’t been much progress with housebreaking yet. Give it time.
We’re down to six puppies in the outside run. Our daughter’s ex took the two little boy pups to his house for our granddaughter to play with when she’s there. Even that little bit helps as far as feeding and keeping the run clean. The temperature has dropped some today so our outside girlies, Hope and Bella, aren’t too happy that they have to sleep in the carport instead of their doghouse tonight. It’s supposed to rain tomorrow, so that will probably just irk them even more. Maybe we’ll find homes for the rest soon so life outside can get back to normal.
Meanwhile, here’s a preview of who I’m dealing with inside. Alice is the dark one and looks like she might have some rottie in her. She’s the bigger chewer so far and wants to play the most. Mabel is already a mama’s girl and likes to cuddle. It’s fun seeing their distinct little personalities coming out. I’m sure I’ll post many more pictures in the future!
8 comments:
They are so beautiful! What's the origin of the nice, traditional (I had an Aunt Alice and a Great Aunt Mabel) names?
Aren't they great? And aren't you the best for taking them in?! How did you choose these two from all of them? Did you have to talk your husband into it or was it the other way around?! :-)
Awww..look at the new furkids!!! What cuties they are! Love the new pics!
Poor Betty. That's how R2 would be. Actually, that's how R2 AND Smokey would be. I think Mac and Bear would be excited about new additions.
Puppies are the cutest. They are also high maintainence! LOL!
DOGGIES!!
Quid, Alice is for the character in the Twilight books. Mabel is just because I thought she looked like a "Mabel"!
Bob, my husband knew I wanted at least one of them all along. While gathering them up I could tell he really liked the little black one (probably since she looks like our rotties did as pups) and he knew that one had really attached itself to me. I heard him telling someone on the phone that we would probably keep a couple so I took that moment to ask if they could be inside dogs. They're all precious and I wish I could keep more... but somehow we just "knew" which ones were destined to stay with us.
Now I've got updates on your site. Cute puppies. People who dump puppies on the side of the road should be dumped out in the middle of nowhere and left to fend for themselves.
They are precious! Makes me want another puppy, but Fremont is the king of the castle, and I don't think I could do that to him.
Cute! Cute! Cute! Those two are very lucky to have found you and your husband!
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