My Puppies

Finally got a video of Jaxie and Jodie together and they are actually acting relatively civil. 



Also a "finally", Jodie slept through the whole night last night!  I was very impressed!  Now she'll probably be up 6 times tonight :o(  Oh well, at least I got one night of continuous rest.

I guess it was puppy love...

Jodie had me up at 4:40am today and was bound and determined to not let me go back to sleep.  She had to pee and she had to go right now.  So I jump out of bed, pick her up, run to the kitchen and grab her leash and my jacket, jump into my winter boots and out we go.  And what do I get for all my effort?  A little tiny tinkle and 20 minutes of following a puppy around my yard in the dark.  Yeah for me!  Convinced she's finished, I take her back in the house.  Not 2 seconds later she's crying at the door to go out.  Alrighty then, back out we go, and she goes a little bit again.  Now she's got to be done, I think to myself, but no, she does it again.  Alright, this time I'm staying out till I'm sure she's done.  35 minutes later I'm standing on my front lawn watching the sun come up with Jodie and Jaxie.  Nice to see the sun but I really would have rather been sleeping.   At least once the sun comes up the yipees and other farm dogs finally shut-up.  Back in the house we go.  I've got about 20 minutes available for sleep, but no, there will be no rest for me, now it's play time!  Since I'm about to lock her in a room for 8 hours, I give in and play.  She falls asleep on the living room floor around 6:45am, just in time for me to have to wake her up to put her in her room.  Ugh!  This dog just might hate me.  And yes, she did sleep in our bed again.

Welcome Jodie!

This is our new puppy Jodie.  She is 8 weeks and 3 days old.  She is a Great Pyrenees and will grow to be huge!  But I can tell already, that with us at least, she will just be a huge baby!

She was born on an Indian Reserve about 10 minutes North of Carlyle Saskatchewan on January 15th, 2010.  They already had too many dogs there so she needed a new home.  My better half had been wanting a Great Pyrenees for some time so we were always keeping one eye open for them.  Being on the farm and with Jaxie getting older we were hoping to get one sooner rather then later.  The add appeared on Kijiji so I sent them an email.  A week later we were making the +10 hour round trip to get our new addition.

Of course first we needed supplies.  It has been quite some time since we've had a puppy.  A color and leash (pink Harley Davidson), a bed, food bowls, food, treats, toys, and a carrier were all purchased.

The drive down seemed to take forever.  The closer we got the more we started talking about what would happen if these people were actually serial killers and not dog sellers.  Oh well, we figured, if it's going to happen then it's going to happen, although we maybe should have told more people where exactly we were going.  But it all worked out well.  It was actually a couple kids who were very nice so that was all good.  Picked the puppy we wanted and packed up to make the long drive home.  The first half an hour Jodie cried and barked and made all sorts of noise.  Then she feel asleep for pretty much the rest of the drive home.  Stopped to give her a break but she really liked it better in the carrier.

She slept most of the rest of the evening at home.  She was quiet in the carrier before so we decided that she should sleep in there for the night.  Well, it started out good, but by 2:30am we were up and sleeping on the couch so she could sleep on the living room floor.  Darn babies!

The next day was a good one.  It was beautiful outside so we took Jodie out to meet the rest of the family.  Abi and Killer really could not have cared less.  Ali swatted Jodie's ear and made her bleed and then ran away!  Poor puppy, doesn't even live with us for a whole 24 hours and she's already wounded.  Jaxie was very curious.  Pounced on her once but was mostly friendly.  Jodie was, of course, very curious of everything but thankfully still not brave enough to venture very far from us, although she started to get braver as the day wore on.  There were a few times we had to go running through the mud to get her!  Lots of cuddling was needed after the beating by the other animals and the bath.  She is the biggest suck ever and definitely loves her snuggles!

We tried putting her in the bathroom the second night but the crying began immediately.  My better half decided that she should sleep with us, but really, only this one time!  Yeah right.  So she slept on our bed.  And she actually woke me up at 6am to go outside.  I guess I was a little slow because she still peed on the floor but at least she tried. 

She was none too pleased being locked up for the day but she can't very well be running around the house or outside by herself.  Oh well, we did it with Jaxie and she turned out perfect.

So I guess this is a whole new adventure.  We kind of forgot how nice it can be to have a dog in the house, even if it is one that bites your toes!  Off to the pet store again today for puppy shampoo, a smaller collar, and more toys.  Good times!