Puppy

We have a new puppy. We’ve always been very set in our 2 hands 2 dogs rule but it seems that life had other plans for us. At 1am Sun morning I woke up and heard this really loud screaming/crying sound. My bed sits against the window so I looked out and saw something moving around N’s truck in the driveway. We have a lot of neighborhood cats so I was worried that a couple of them were fighting and we have a cat door in the basement and I didn’t want a hurt or scared cat coming in that door. I went down to the basement to put something infront of the door and when I looked out I realized it wasn’t a cat at all but a tiny puppy. I opened the door and said “come here baby” and she ran straight to me still crying. I went back upstairs and told N to turn on the light and he kept asking me if everything was ok and I said “just turn on the light!” he finally did and the look on his face was priceless! She was clean and smelled good so I thought for sure she had just wondered off and had to belong to a neighbor. We have a yahoo group for our neighborhood so I put up a post right away figuring someone would claim her as soon as they got up and saw she was gone. Wrong. At 8:30 N went around to all the houses within puppy walking distance and no one claimed her. N went to walmart and got some poster board and put up signs and we did get a couple of calls telling us that a neighbor had a new puppy but that is our next door neighbor and we knew this wasn’t their dog. Of course by this point we are starting to get attached to her! By last night when we didn’t have any calls we knew we had a new dog. She is an absolute sweetheart and doing really good with house training so far. She now knows how to go in and out the dog door! She’s a very fast learner. The only problem we have is she still doesn’t have a name! We refused to even think about names until last night when we finally decided we were too attached to take her to a shelter. N and I have very different ideas about names so it might take a while for us to agree on anything. For now we call her Puppy.

She LOVES toys and so far the ducks are her favorites.

The girls are not handling the change very well at all. Pooh is starting to tolerate her a little bit more but Ki is just MAD. She is MAD beyond words actually. She will barely even come near us. Everytime  Puppy goes near her she either growls or just walks away. The night that I found Puppy Ki was so upset she was doing her anxious mouth foaming/drooling thing. Pooh doesn’t seem to be nearly as mad at us and she doesn’t run to avoid Puppy anymore. They still won’t even consider playing with her though which is sad because she wants to play SO bad. Hopefully they will warm up to her soon because this is their life now. I still can’t believe we have 3 dogs. Lord help us. LOL

Oh and right now she’s about 5lbs. The vet thinks she will be a small-medium size dog, we are hoping she doesn’t get any bigger than 30ish lbs.