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Collateral damage?

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Midnight our Lab puppy

I just love my little puppy, Midnight. She’s only been with us for about three weeks now, but she’s definitely grown on us!

That’s probably because we have to constantly watch the mischievously little girl. If she disappears from our sight for a minute or two she’s bound to be found trying to jump up at something she shouldn’t be trying to get or trying to get into something like the garbage.

Yesterday morning I was upstairs and my husband was in the basement getting ready to have a shower. Midnight was safely tucked away in her training crate. We always put a few chew toys in with her and it sounded like she was going nuts playing with her toys, but as it turned out she was up to no good.

You see, on top of her training crate is the box the crate came in. My husband put it there just after he put the cage together and we’ve been using that area as a place to put our winter coats since we go in and out with the puppy several times each day. Remember we don’t have any closets on the main floor. We usually keep our coats on coat hangers in the basement hallway, but leaving them on top of the crate has been working out just fine … until Thursday morning that is.

The hood of my winter coat, with it’s faux fur trim, fell victim to our playful puppy. I guess when Chris took the puppy out in the morning he must have moved my coat a bit when he got his own and the hood must have been hanging over the edge just enough for our puppy to reach it with her inquisitive little mouth. She probably latched onto it and pulled it down enough to really start chewing on it!

In the end … my hood was still intact but some of the buttons that had held it onto the coat were gone ( we found them) and oh … about a handful of faux fur littered the bottom of her cage. Hopefully she didn’t swallow too much of that stuff!

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I imagine that she was probably looking up at my coats hood just like she is in this photo. Of course in this photo she’s looking up at my husband hoping he’ll give her a treat … but a coat hood to tear apart is yet another treat to a silly puppy too isn’t it?

That’s the first item of either Chris or I’s that she’s managed to damage in any way. We’ve probably been lucky so far. I’m sure by the time she’s a year old I’ll have a list as long as my arm of things she’s destroyed!

If you’d like to see more pictures of our puppy and hear more about how playful she is check out the post I wrote titled She’s not chewsy at all and a great photo of her on my photoblog.





I’m enjoying walking around the neighborhood

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Well I’ve been taking lots and lots of walks around the neighborhood with our little puppy lately.

I’m enjoying getting out so much even thought it’s getting so much colder! Plus we had a huge snow storm on Thursday so walking on the un-shoveled sidewalks wasn’t all that much fun. Puppy enjoyed it though. She kind of gallops like a horse through the snow jumping from snow mound to snow mound. It’s really quite cute.

I can’t wait until our puppy gets her third set of shots in early January and I guess her rabies vaccines shortly after that too. She’ll be a little older and since she’ll have all her vaccinations we’ll be able walk further and maybe even go to the park. Certainly by February or early March we should be able to do that anyway.

We live in a nice enough neighborhood but there’s some very nice neighborhoods within easy walking distance and I’d love to walk Midnight around that area. She could get her exercise (me too) and I could spend time looking at all of the luxury homes and everyones gardens.

Midnight was 12 weeks old when we got her November 23rd and she’d only had one set of shots, her first, near the beginning of October. She should have had two sets of vaccinations by the time she was 12 weeks old. So she’s behind.

Because she’s behind in her vaccinations we were only going to let her use the front and back yards at first, but then it snowed. Much earlier this year than the last several and the snow is staying on the ground instead of melting away in a few days. Maybe I’m wrong, but I think with all the snow it’s a little safer to take her for walks just around the block. We aren’t going near the park, nor are we going in any areas that other dogs frequent. I suppose there’s always a chance that she can pick up something, but I’m hoping the snow is covering up all the potential bad germs.

I guess that’s the only real good thing about having a young puppy at this time of year. I know I’m going to dread going out with her several times a day when it’s -10 or -15 Celsius, but as far as her chances of catching any of the bugs that live in the soil or that would likely be in higher concentrations spring through fall she’s safer.

What do you think? Is it safe to take short walks just around the block when there’s snow covering the ground or should we stick to our own property until her vaccinations are finished?

Bowl full of Kittens

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Aw aren’t they adorable? I think there might be three kittens in that dog food bowl. If you look closely below the second kittens head I think that’s the ears of another kitty.

I’ve never been much of a cat person, but I adore kittens. They are so cute and so very sweet and playful.

I don’t think my puppy likes cats much. When we went to the breeders to pick her out of the litter there was a cat in the barn. It actually walked around the top of the pen and the only puppy to bark at it or perhaps even notice it was of course our little Midnight.

The only other time we’ve observed her around cats has been at the vets. They have a resident cat and she barks at it and they also have a few young cats and kittens in cages near the front window and she went nuts barking at them.

Of course she barks at other dogs and people when we’re walking but I’m certain those are hello barks. The bark she gives the cats she’s encountered is a little different. I guess as she gets older we’ll have a better idea if she really does dislike cats or not and what some of her barks really mean.

No flying vacations for a while I guess

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I was just saying on my other blog that now that we have a puppy we probably won’t be flying anywhere for vacation for the next several months. Puppy needs to be house trained and grow out of her chewing and teething stage before we could even ask anyone to look after her while we are away.

So that means she’ll have to come with us on vacation if we even go on vacation. I guess we’ll be doing road trips and we’ll be trying to find pet friendly places to stay.

I’ve always wanted to go to Carolina. It’s a long drive, but not too bad. Perhaps a vacation on the Outer Banks might be nice. I’m sure that there must be some pet friendly cabins or motels there.

Do you know of any pet friendly vacation spots that aren’t too far from where I am here in Ontario?

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