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more sweetness

Sweet pea has the odd habit of sleeping on plastic bags.  There was one in my front hallway, and I noticed that she pulled it into a kind of nest and curled up in it.  Right now she is fast asleep by my feet on a trash bag I was using to discard the old holey socks I discovered in a still unpacked card board box.  Yes, I still have unpacked boxes.  Every time I get enthusiastic about unpacking more boxes I end up throwing out my back.  I have no motivation to unpack.

But I find the plastic bag as a bed thing fascinating.  Did someone in the first 11 weeks of sweet pea's life make her sleep on plastic?  Inquiring minds want to know.

Sweet pea comes out of her shell a little more every day. She is getting bolder by the minute.  In a totally adorable way.  Her tummy is not happy though.  Sweet pea hasn't had a real solid movement since we got her, but the food I tried to give her yesterday really did a number on her belly. Today I tried a "raw" food ( I have to keep it in my freezer) and she gobbled it down, and puked 4 minutes later. Luckily, she puked outside, so I didn't have to clean it up the way I cleaned up her poop on my pajama bottoms (goodbye pajama bottoms) and the poop by the garage door.  So far there are two rugs that need to be cleaned and one that will go in the trash.  I didn't like the trash one anymore anyway.  It wsa a scrap I got for my bathroom and then I painted the bathroom and it doesn't fit anymore.

Sweet pea i snow a champion at sit and down.  My list of other tricks includes shake and wait/take it, and beyond that I don't remember what they taught me in previous puppy classes.  It's been such a long time! 

This cold weather is just about killing me.  I could hibernate until late March, easily.  

How we chose sweet pea, or the other way around

The place where we adopted sweet pea was a horse farm.  In the barn some horse stalls were cleaned up and there were 4 or 5 puppies in each stall waiting for families to come adopt them.  We took separate cars, and since the husband thinks he is better than a GPS, Evan and Josh got there 20 minutes before us.  The dog I had spotted on the pet rescue website was already adopted, so Evan called me and asked what he should do.  I told him to meet the other dogs and if there was one that he felt was special to hold onto it until we got there. 

I tried to say something to the boys about the possibility that there might not be a dog there who was a good fit for us, we weren't in a hurry and we wanted to wait until a dog that seemed really right for us came around.  (Mostly by "right" I meant not psycho like bear bait was as a puppy)  I was disappointed by the one puppy I went to meet a few weeks ago who was not into me and also the one puppy this day that got away but I decided that it was all fate, and to really be open and accepting of whatever the universe had in store for me.  I told myself there would always be other adoption events in the future.

When we drove up Evan was standing in an open area with sweet pea in his arms.

Evan told us that he opened the door to the stall sweet pea was in so he get a look at the dogs and sweet pea looked up from where she was standing at the back wall, ran toward him, pushing another dog out of the way and jumping on a another dog's back to get to Evan.  I thought "There's my sign!"  I glanced at the other puppies, all of whom were almost as adorable as sweet pea, but I knew from Evan's story that sweet pea took one look at him and knew we had come for her.

I whipped out the husband's credit card.

The vet called today and I was right about sweet pea having tape worms.  Her stool sample came back and she for sure has tape worms.  She also has round worms, so there is another dose of medication around the corner for sweet pea.  Ick. I hope these worms don't effect her health!  I want her to live a long healthy life.  She totally has SIT in her back pocket and we are working on DOWN.  She is a smart girl, together, she and I can go far!! 

I hope one day she can be a certified therapy dog.  I'd like to use her to give people some comfort.  Also, I think she'd like having a job.

sweet pea

I am so in love with my new puppy it is crazy!  Pain in the butt, sure, she isn't housebroken, and she goes every two hours, but adorable? Yes!  When Josh was a baby and he cried during the night I'd roll over grumbling and once I saw his cutie sweet face I'd just smile and happily nurse him back to sleep.  It's like that except instead of nursing my new puppy I put on my coat and shoes and take her outside for elimination.

Needless to say, I am a tired lady right now.

I didn't want to go the crate route, but I have a friend who guaranted me you could use the crate to get past the house breaking/teething (oh yeah, sweet pea is a major chewer) stage and then go crate free.  I dragged bear bait's crate out of the basement today and someone who woke me up 4 times last night (but only once for elination- the rest was just house prowling) is goign to sleep in there as soon as I hit ublish on this post.  I'll take some more photos in the morning and post them here.

I was pretty nervous about reentering the wonderful world of dog ownership since it only took me over two years to really bond with bear bait (remember how I used to call her devil dog?).  I'm just glad that me and sweet pea hit ot off from the first second.

Tomorrow I'll tell you how sweet pea got chosen from all the rescue puppies in the barn.

In the mean time I have to get back to serious work!  I shot for a couple of hours this weekend, there was glorious fog, but now I have to shoot more. Fingers crossed for overcast, but this cold snap I could do without.

Jan 2, 2015

I got a dog. I'm so happy I could cry.

Jan 1, 2015

It's totally not like me to want to relocate but I have to admit that after our five day vacation in Puerto Rico I am thinking it is a great place to live. I could really get into that weather.

Tomorrow I am going to a dog adoption event. I've been pre approved, so should I happen to fall in love at the event I could potentially be a dog owner tomorrow night. It's a big responsibility and I have been enjoying not being responsible for a fur baby. I might be a little out of my mind.

I never make resolutions but I did this year. I resolve to take better care of myself. The most immediate action was to stop my week long gluten and dairy binge. I'm 24 hours clean. Three more days before my knees stop throbbing. I have a new gluten side effect. Hives. And yet I am still tempted. Nuts. I gotta lose some weight too My big belly is just getting in the way.

Jan 1, 2015

It's totally not like me to want to relocate but I have to admit that after our five day vacation in Puerto Rico I am thinking it is a great place to live. I could really get into that weather.

Tomorrow I am going to a dog adoption event. I've been pre approved, so should I happen to fall in love at the event I could potentially be a dog owner tomorrow night. It's a big responsibility and I have been enjoying not being responsible for a fur baby. I might be a little out of my mind.

I never make resolutions but I did this year. I resolve to take better care of myself. The most immediate action was to stop my week long gluten and dairy binge. I'm 24 hours clean. Three more days before my knees stop throbbing. I have a new gluten side effect. Hives. And yet I am still tempted. Nuts. I gotta lose some weight too My big belly is just getting in the way.