Our first few days
Boy, it’s been a busy few days at our new home!
Mom has had to put us in our crate for puppy naps so we will settle down. The vet said no running and jumping for two weeks – yeah right! Dante has already figured out how to jump up and down off the deck, including a few super man leaps with all legs splayed. Mina is brave and quite adventurous – running all over the place.
Our beagle sister adores us. The only thing she doesn’t like is when mom gets up with us at 4 in the morning for a pee break, we run straight to her bed and wake her up. She doesn’t like having two puppies on her in the middle of the night, we’re not sure why! Mom also does not seem to want to play at 4 am, who knew. Party pooper. Dad is not happy that we both snore. Now there are three snoring dogs in the bedroom at night – dad says mom snores too, but mom doesn’t believe him!
So far, we have made it 6 hours in the night both nights without needing to go out – not bad for being only 11 weeks old.
Mom and dad got to see Dante run for the first time yesterday! Boy is he quick, when he is running you would never know he is missing a leg! He also holds his own pretty good when Mina tries to take his toys. He has figured out how to pounce and do a play bow, too – he’s a trooper!
The cats are adjusting to us, they still hiss but they are pretty passive aggressive, so we’re not worried about them. We love it here and we have settled in quite nicely.
It has been 3 weeks now that Dante had his leg amputated and all that remains are a few scabs – they seem to bother him a bit and get itchy, he will roll around and try to bite where his scabs are – but other than that he is doing excellent.
Mom and dad have already taught us to sit and stay at the door when we come in, to dry our feet. We are smart cookies and have learned a lot since coming home two days ago! We can sit. Dante can lay down (Mina is too stubborn and independent for this one) and we haven’t had many accidents and seem to have figured out that we need to pee as soon as we get outside.
Mom only has one concern, and that is how much to allow Dante to do on his own, and how often she should pick him up and help him. He sometimes whines to be picked up and mom isn’t sure if she should encourage him to keep going, or if she should just pick him up. Mom doesn’t want to baby him too much and turn him into a 70lb dog who expects to be carried in a year, but does not want to over-do it. Dante seems to whine the most when he is unsure more than tired. He mostly sits when he is tired and takes a little rest.
Mom will get it figured out and ask the vet some more questions when we go back for our booster shots next week!
Dante & Mina