Puppies and the resident dog

Finally! My dog, Brinkley, has decided to play nicely with the puppies (we still have Peeta - now Paco) until next Friday when his new family comes to get him. It makes life so much easier. I can let everyone out at the same time. Prim adores him and chases him all over the yard. He, on the other hand, really isn't into playing with her. I'm not sure if it's because I've worked so hard to keep him from being rough with them or not.

This morning when I let them out, as Brinkley was peeing, Prim tried to crawl under his belly. I just knew she was going to get a shower:-(

If you've been following this blog, you may have noticed that 4 of the puppies have been adopted but we had 5 puppies. I haven't mentioned Prim's adoption. She does have a potential home. It's with us. I'm just waiting to be approved by the rescue (still haven't heard what that entails:-) hopefully I'll be up to snuf). We're proceeding under the assumption that we will be allowed to adopt her. We took her to the vet yesterday. He said she is overweight! How can a 4# puppy be overweight? I know she's a little round. I like curves. And yes, I'll stop worrying about her getting enough to eat and let her regulate herself. I'm not cooking so much for her and trying to go with plain kibble for now. I will transition her to raw as that will help as well.

She was also anemic. None of the others have been. The vet put her on vitamins with iron. I'll get some from the rescue to start Peeta/Paco on as well.

We hadn't intended to adopt a puppy. In fact, we had said after Brinkley, we weren't going to raise another one. So, why, you may ask, did we choose to add Prim to our family? There are probably many more reasons but essentially, we fell in love with her and just couldn't bear the thought of not having her in our lives. We loved all the puppies but there was something special for us in her. If we had set out to look for a puppy to adopt, I doubt that she would have been the one. She's a bit more "active" than we would have chosen and the digging and barking aren't our style. But she is the sweetest, most loving girl and there is just something about her personality that touches our hearts. And her mom is so mellow and has such a great temperament, we figure with a good upbringing she should be a fabulous dog for us.

I put her in a crate last night and had her on my side of the bed. I put the crate on top of another crate so that she was level with me. We went to bed early and I was expecting her to get me up around 2am. Well, she was totally quite until 4:30 when she barked once. I took her outside (it turned cold and windy during the night) and she peed right away. I brought her back to bed with me and she snuggled with me and my dog for a while, slept a bit and then got up with my husband. It was such a sweet morning.

Here are some more photos of Prim and her new big brother.