Well the big four month mark has come and gone and other than losing a few teeth everything is going great. I had my official weigh on my four week birthday and I am 13.5" tall and weigh 17.8 lbs. Yippee! I am growing. Dr.Kim is very happy with my weight gain and overall growth. Mom went home and put the numbers into the computer and Diane sent back a chart with all my brothers weights and heights to see how we all compare. Ummmm.....looks like I am the wee baby brother now. I am not far off so maybe in the next growth spurt I'll catch up. Here's what it looks like....
Puppy
Weight
Height
Arson
17.8
13.5”
Chuck
21.8
15”
Decoy
20.8
14.75”
Motor
22.2
15”
Owen
24.1
16”
Trapper
26
16”
Now that I have the official stuff taken care of lets move onto fun things. I have graduated from Beginner Obedience classes with flying colors and now working on my Groundwork Agility class which is way more fun than learning rules. I have a new friend, Wicked, a Golden Retriever puppy. She is four weeks younger than me but I think we will be forever friends.
This photo was a rare moment that we were sitting still because mostly we like to wrestle.
I have also made in roads with Slice. She now likes to eat chewies next me...
Hey Sibs! Just dropping a line to touch base and see how my bros are doing. My life gets busier by the week! Not sure how I keep up this pace! We get going at 5 am and keep going until 10 pm. Monday was working with mom in the daycare, obedience class with Auntie Amanda (mom is teaching the class) and then Groundwork Agility class with my mom. Super tired at the end of that day let me tell you! Yesterday was another daycare day as my best friend Pippa, a mini Aussie pup, was in attendance. We are exactly the same size and play together all day. I have another good pal, Bailey, a border collie, she works at the shop too so we see each other everyday.
Well lets just say when the three of us get together I’m exhausted at the end of the day. Yesterday I just couldn’t play anymore so I found a couple of places to chill out and watch the room. My mom thought I looked super cute and the camera comes out. Good grief that woman and her pictures. I don’t even care if my eyes are open in pictures anymore! You’ll see from the pictures that there was no way even Bailey could entice me to chase her. Phew!
Last night was my first official leash walk with the family. Just like a pro! Now that the weather is nicer and I’m a bit older we will apparently be doing this a lot.
Gotta run, my peeps are waiting. Catch you on the flip side bros!
Well I am 14 weeks old now and growing up quite nicely. I have finally been able to get Slice to play with me. Well she really prefers the game where we chase each other around. She is pretty fast but one day I'll catch up. All I know is mom keeps hollering at me to be careful when we are playing. Pint and I play all the time now, usually wrestling matches in my cozy bed in front of the fire.
I now weigh 16 pounds and stand 13 1/2" tall. I think I am the smallest of my brothers but my mom says I have a lot of growing to do. One of my favorite spots to sleep is under the coffee table. Not sure how much longer I am going to fit there.
When I am not sleeping under the table you will often find me curled up in my dog bed keeping an eye on the room. Need to make sure nothing fun happens without me.
Just for fun my mom wanted to see how much I have grown since I came home so let's take a look.
As you can see, Porter is a little more accepting of me these days. You can tell because his ears are up and he doesn't look as disgusted with me. Okay, the truth is, the only way we can sit beside each other is if there is a treat at stake. I'm okay with that.
Let's see how big I look next to the Papillons now
My mom was at another agility trial today. Once again, banished to my prison. Okay it really wasn't all that bad. I got to meet lots of new people and charm them with my good manners and how much I love my mom. There was even shopping! Like my mom, I love to shop and picked out three new toys!
After a long day, mom decided she would have a nice relaxing bubble bath. I get to hang in the bathroom with her so I don't get in trouble. Well, this is the first time I have seen a bubble bath. Usually i just stick my head in while she showers and let the mist hit my face. Of course I usually knock something off the ledge with my big paws too. Anyways, so my mom gets in the tub with all these lovely smelling bubbles which peaked my curiosity to say the least.
I had a lick of the bubbles and kept trying to play with them. Mom was ignoring me while she was talking on the phone to my dad. So I decided to join her in the bath...
a boy's gotta smell good for the ladies you know. Well she screamed a little bit when I jumped in and i realized the water was a little warm and after a couple minutes jumped back out. I think this is where the whole episode wasn't cute anymore. Flooding the bathroom with water wasn't very funny, or so she thought anyway. Personally, I had a fabulous time!
Look at me and my family! As you can see we are all getting along very well. This picture was taken when we went for a walk at my first agility trial. We were only there for the day so Slice and Pint could run in a fundraising event for their trip to Belgium. Porter and I stayed in the van but got to get out and visit lots and go for walks. On this walk, I was allowed off leash with the Papillons. Porter isn't allowed off leash as he always runs away. I was a good boy and walked right beside my dad the whole time. Every time I checked in I got a cookie.
I really hope I don't have to stay in prison to watch agility for much longer. I really want to play. Here hoping the sad puppy dog eyes get me out of this cell.
I did it! I made it to my 12 week birthday! Let's party! Bring out the cake! Okay maybe some of you aren't quite as excited about that as I am but this means more of the world is opening up to me. I get to go more places and do more things!
Lets' recap what happened in week 11.
Now that I am a little bigger, weighing in at 12.3 lbs, I get to spend more time in the daycare playing with other puppy or really any dog that will play with me. My favorite game is getting them to chase me so I can see how fast I can run. Sometimes I even launch into the air to jump on things to throw them off my trail. It's pretty funny. The only bad part about the puppy silliness is sometimes I do funny thing and they are caught on video. It can be a little embarassing. Case in point...the video below. I was playing with my new border collie friend, Rayne, when I thought I was being super sneaky running into the pack of dogs only to be met with the fence first. No worries, I bounced off and kept playing. Won't make that mistake again!
Of course the trade off for playing is helping my mom with office work. I find accounting particularly boring so I chose to have a nap instead of reading all those numbers.
I've started to develop funny little habits and my own personality. My mom thinks I am pretty cute no matter what I do. She does spend a lot of time laughing at me. My newest trick is to do a full body stretch when I get out of my crate before we walk anywhere. The clincher is when I look up adoringly at my mom. She is a sucker for that! I must say it does show off my figure nicely.
Like I said, if all I do is look up at my mom (or anyone else for that matter) with a tilt of my head and my melt -your-heart brown eyes, I can get a treat anytime.
I have settled into the house and the daily routine. My favorite time of the day is breakfast and supper. My mom put me on some new food and I LOVE IT! Before I would play around while eating and investigate my sibs food (by the way, that is not allowed) but now I just about do back flips for my meals. I have been watching Slice lately and see that she jumps in that air to get higher than Porters head in order to get her treat. If your taller your more important she told me. No problem, I can do that. So I have started the jump in the air like a papillon hoping to get my treats first. No such luck. I think she just wanted to get me in trouble.
It has taken me a while to find my favorite resting spot but now I have a list of three; my mat in front of the fireplace, on the arm of the couch beside my Mom and the Papillons or sleeping with my Dad's slippers. Any one of the three places is great for a long nap but sleeping next to my humans is my favorite.
My biggest accomplishment of the week was finally getting my brother Pint to play with me. Once again, caught on video. This is the first time we have really played and the best part is we played all day! I have to be careful as my teeth are still really sharp, so no nipping at the wee dog. Good news is, looks like my big boy teeth will be coming soon. Hopefully the next video you see of Pint and I will be outside. Apparently, we are creating a little too much ruckus in the house.
It was inevitable that it was going to happen but I was really hoping that it would be a lot later in my life than 10 weeks. You guessed it the first bath. Apparently, I was kind of smelly. Not sure who was the judge of that because I thought I smelled pretty darn good. My opinion clearly didn't matter and off to the tub I went.
As you can see I wasn't so happy about the tub.
Out comes the water. I am thinking that I shouldn't have seemed so eager to get in the shower with my mom the past two weeks. Now she thinks I love the water. I won't lie it wasn't as bad as I thought. The get clean with soap part not so cool but the water was pretty fun.
Once I was all cleaned up, I got out of the tub, toweled off and laid in a crate with a chewy while I waited for the blow dryer.
All I can say is who would stand willingly while someone blows are on you? Not a huge fan of that but I made it through. I am super cute and smell so much better!
The day took a lot out me, so the first thing I did when I got home is went to my cozy spot in front of the fireplace. My sibs all sleep on the couches but i prefer this spot. Toys, chewy, a furry mat and the fire, who could ask for anything more?
waiting on the scale for the official number
