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So there's this dog...
Nov. 12th, 2007 09:47 amSo it happened like this:
I got home on Sunday from my trip to the peninsula (more on that later; let's just say that I love the place deeply even when it doesn't treat me so well) and Laura said, "there's something you need to see. Come with us!"
So I did. We went to the pet store, and there was this puppy. Tiny. Adorable. Friendly. Calm. And able to cast Charm Person with great effectiveness with an eye-blink and tail-wag.
I was like, "Um, no...we just got DONE with puppyness! But...awww...." Boone was so excited to see her, his whole body was wagging. He loves other dogs; he is pretty much a completely dog-focused dog. I'd been thinking on and off about the possibility of getting a companion for him, but I was like, "no, no more dogs."
I wandered off to get some coffee, and as I was walking down to Starbucks I thought, "Her name is Pip."
It was all over the moment I found her name.
Pip is very calm. She loves Bryan, loves being picked up and snuggled (and has earned herself the nickname Princess Pip because of it), thinks people are the best and Boone's pretty good too, and ignores the cats. She was raised in a daycare, so she likes children. She knows "come here", though she doesn't know her name quite yet. And she jumps! It took Boone until he was seven months old to be jumping as reliably as she is at four months. She's also partially potty-trained, though we're having a few adjustment issues.
She is not crate trained, though, and she cried off and on all night, even though she had Boone in the crate with her for company. She'll get used to it really quickly though, I think, once we manage to introduce the concept of "crate = safety, security, and cookies" to her. She also doesn't know how to walk on a leash really well yet, but that should come quickly as well.
Boone loves her. LOVES. When he's not playing with her he lays down and looks at her adoringly. He follows her everywhere. Not determined yet which of them is going to end up dominant, but I have this feeling she is. She is a Princess, after all.
New skills we need to learn: walking two dogs at once, keeping track of two puppies at once, managing to call only one dog at a time. Right now, I call Boone and Pip comes.
So, um. Puppy! Another puppy! (oh dear gods, another puppy...)
I got home on Sunday from my trip to the peninsula (more on that later; let's just say that I love the place deeply even when it doesn't treat me so well) and Laura said, "there's something you need to see. Come with us!"
So I did. We went to the pet store, and there was this puppy. Tiny. Adorable. Friendly. Calm. And able to cast Charm Person with great effectiveness with an eye-blink and tail-wag.
I was like, "Um, no...we just got DONE with puppyness! But...awww...." Boone was so excited to see her, his whole body was wagging. He loves other dogs; he is pretty much a completely dog-focused dog. I'd been thinking on and off about the possibility of getting a companion for him, but I was like, "no, no more dogs."
I wandered off to get some coffee, and as I was walking down to Starbucks I thought, "Her name is Pip."
It was all over the moment I found her name.
Pip is very calm. She loves Bryan, loves being picked up and snuggled (and has earned herself the nickname Princess Pip because of it), thinks people are the best and Boone's pretty good too, and ignores the cats. She was raised in a daycare, so she likes children. She knows "come here", though she doesn't know her name quite yet. And she jumps! It took Boone until he was seven months old to be jumping as reliably as she is at four months. She's also partially potty-trained, though we're having a few adjustment issues.
She is not crate trained, though, and she cried off and on all night, even though she had Boone in the crate with her for company. She'll get used to it really quickly though, I think, once we manage to introduce the concept of "crate = safety, security, and cookies" to her. She also doesn't know how to walk on a leash really well yet, but that should come quickly as well.
Boone loves her. LOVES. When he's not playing with her he lays down and looks at her adoringly. He follows her everywhere. Not determined yet which of them is going to end up dominant, but I have this feeling she is. She is a Princess, after all.
New skills we need to learn: walking two dogs at once, keeping track of two puppies at once, managing to call only one dog at a time. Right now, I call Boone and Pip comes.
So, um. Puppy! Another puppy! (oh dear gods, another puppy...)
