Meow and Huzzah to all the non-reproducing cats. One of mine is sleeping in an inaccessible corner in the computer room. It's the first time she's dared to come in the house since puppy came home.
Puppy has no name yet. Poor thing no doubt thinks her name is Puppy. I'm working on it. The most appropriate name would appear to be Fuzzy Alligator. Funny, she wasn't chewing everything in sight yesterday when we were choosing her
. So, how did I pick her? Well, since she became available, that made 3 to choose from. I thought she might be a bit large, and we don't want this one to be as big as Molly was. She was 60-65 lbs, really over sized for a female Belgian. 45 - 50 is more ideal. Not to mention easier to handle and to fit in places like the sailboat. Yellow was the smallest, and she is very pretty. Could easily be a show dog. The breeder thinks she is liable to be shy though, unless she gets a whole lot of socialization. Now, I will be doing as much of that as possible, but I do live on the edge of the frozen wasteland after all. Not a lot of opportunities here for daily contact with the outside world. Then there was Diva, who of course is so gorgeous, can't be shown in dog shows, but I don't care about that. But she wasn't really warming up to us. She would occasionally wander up and say hello, but mostly she laid under the breeder's chair. Pink, on the hand climbed up into DD's lap the minute she was let out of the x-pen! That helped. The breeder also said she was very laid back, not overly high in prey drive. That struck a chord with DH, who wants the dog to be as little trouble as possible. He doesn't like the herding instinct, the circling and the sometimes pushy following, but I love it, so a dog that might be moderate in that regard was good.
Anyway, the breeder assured me that none of these puppies were particularly large for females, and she doesn't think there's any chance that Pink will grow up to be oversized. So what it really came down to was: getting either Yellow or Diva would be at least in part because they are pretty and eyecatching even compared to all the other adorable puppies -- and I just wanted to collect me some pretty things. Pink is perfectly beautiful even though she is not as exotic as Diva or as perfect as Yellow, but she will be much easier to handle and train, and she is very affectionate and sweet.
Now once we get her to stop whining and howling, life will be just lovely. Yeah, Bagz, she slept all night -- except for the waking up every hour to make a fuss.
Cherry, glad you're taking care of yourself. Don't worry about losing friends; they'll understand.
I love blue taters. They'se purty. And taste like chicken.
Kiwi
bring on the dog chow
