He’s sure got a purdy face.
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How do you handle a hanging chad?
Dogs are clean.
Dogs are dirty.
It depends on what moment you catch them.
Today, I came home for lunch and took Pippin out for a walk and a reprieve from the crate. It’s a daily routine, only today I had the early shift ’cause Susan was in a training session.
We didn’t get too far past our [...]
The things you notice
I see dog people. Lot’s of ‘em. They’re everywhere.
I guess before having a dog we never really paid that much attention. Now, we’re looking for them. It’s a weird feeling, like buying a new car and looking all over for people with the same make and model.
A couple of observations from today:
We took Pip to [...]
Doggie play date
Sue invited us over for a doggie play date (click here for video at Sue’s Place) with her two Cairns.
Camille, who can’t put Pippin down, wouldn’t put her feet on the ground with the two other dogs. Shayna gave Pip a run for his money, so much in fact that he crashed for most of [...]
Lazy days of winter
Yes, Pippin sleeps like this sometimes. He’s in the zone.
Anatomy of a dog owner
Last night, Susan had an outing with the girls that left me alone with the kids and the dog, who for some reason has started crappin’ in the kitchen. I had to crate him while I got the kids to bed. Then for an hour and thirty minutes I had to follow behind him to [...]
Stinky poo
It’s working out that the girls are taking to Pippin in their own way. They both like to pick him up kind of like a baby (I wouldn’t let them hold a baby the way they pick him up). They generally keep up with him. They do love him.
Camille tends to be the watchdog, so [...]
Giving Pip the runaround
The dog has a mind of his own. He now takes to playing tug-o-war with the leash. He’s a biter, he is.
We’re still working on not peeing in the house, but at least No. 2 has been a factor.
Anyway, here he is getting the runaround from Susan.
Pip, Pip, hooray!
Two days of perfect crate behavior from the little guy. Of course, we’ve been coming home roughly every 2 to 3 hours to let him go pee and poo.
My favorite quotes from the kids so far:
Abby: “Mommy, I think Pippin was meant to be a part of our family.”
Camille: “Mommy, do you love [...]
The good, the bad and the frustrating
Life with puppy. It’s riding the old emotional roller coaster, that’s for sure. When we left him for the first time in the crate on Sunday, we weren’t gone for more than 30 minutes, but came back to find he’d pooped in the crate, even though he had pooped outside that morning.
So when we [...]
Also, time to have that talk
Abby came into the kitchen later in the afternoon, and said, “Mommy, I saw a little pink thing come out of his pee when we were playing.”
“Yep, he’s a boy dog. He has a penis. It’s what they do.”
“Does that mean he wants to marry me?”
“Uh, something like that.”
“Mommy, it’s freaking me out.”
Pippin the marvelous
Okay, so we’ve probably broken every rule we read about not introducing a new puppy to too many people, but Pippin handled it with aplomb.
After we picked him up this morning, we thought he was doing fine in the van on the way home. But he began to whimper and cry just a little. We [...]
