Baby’s First Bath
Apologies that several are blurry – unfortunately I can’t give the puppy a bath AND take photos at the same time, so my mom was nice enough to grab the camera. Also, he’s wiggly, so getting a non-blurry shot is a crapshoot to start.
Ahhh, a wet puppy! His paws look disproportionately HUGE when all of his fur is wet down, LOL.
I don’t think I like you anymore new MomLady.
And obligatory sheltiesaurus pics… LOL.
My poor dogs.
RINSE! Look at his nice neck. He actually HAS a neck. I bet the first time he goes to see the chiropractor she’s going to tell him he has a nice neck like the rest of his family.
Is abuzed.
sooooo abuzed…
somebody start singing “Angel…”
And then I grabbed a pink towel to wrap him in, LOL. Oh the inhumanity.
SHAKE!!
Also, baby is no longer nameless – I tried many many MANY names but the only name that really, truly fits him… is Payton. After #34.
So now both of my boy dogs are named after local sports players. Which leaves Miss Pepper as the special case when she comes home to join us, LOL. Which she just plain is the exception… so I actually kinda like it that way. (Though I could start calling her “Peppers” and say she’s named after Julius Peppers, haha.)
More of the nameless baby
Still kicking names around. Every time I think I come up with one, it ends up rejected because it sounds too much like another dog’s name, or I know a dog with that name, or or or…
But first, Auggie being adorable!! (overexposed, boo =<)
Shark doooog, shaaaark dooog…
Stupid sunlight screwing up what would otherwise be a REALLY lovely photo…
I need to switch my lenses and switch my settings, because just about everything is coming out blurry, LOL. So far Auggie likes his little brother, except sometimes he is really annoying. I am secretly enjoying the fact that Auggie is annoyed by the puppy, since I told him for a long time that I was going to unleash an annoying puppy on him as payback. On the other hand, whenever Auggie decides he REALLY wants to play, sometimes the puppy is in turn like “OMG TOOOOOO MUUUUUCH” because clearly Auggie can still be really obnoxious with the best of them. But they are getting along well on the whole and the puppy just loooooves his big brother. He follows him all over the place. If Auggie is looking at something, the puppy has to be looking at it, too. This is actually kind of helpful because the puppy is learning quite a bit just from poking around after Auggie.
The Newcomer
An as-yet-unnamed monster brat has joined your party!
A match made in heaven…? Or just two little brats plotting together?
Two Little Puppies
If you’re having a bad day, I challenge you to do this:
Imagine a sheltie puppy. A pretty small one – tightly curled up it’s just about smaller than a volleyball. It’s fuzzy and fluffy, covered in super soft downy puppy hair. They go “yarf yarf!” in little high-pitched squeaks instead of barking.
Got the mental image?
Now double it.
TWO little puppies. Soft and snuggly, they fit so nicely in your arms. One of them is a little snotty and every time you pet her she goes “AAAARRR RARR RARR” like she’s going to bite your hand off with her tiny (but sharp!) little puppy teeth. The other one keeps giving you kisses as you hold her, and you can feel her little puppy tail wagging away in your arms.
This was my yesterday.
It was a wonderful, wonderful evening.
No, neither of the puppies are mine nor will they be. Mom desperately wants one of them, though. She couldn’t stop talking about them all night long. Auggie rode home snuggled up in my lap because I was so very nostalgic for the first day I brought him home, a small fluffy ball of puppy.
I put Auggie down next to them (they were in an ex-pen at first) and let him sniff them through the bars. He wasn’t very interested. I picked one of them up and held her out to him outside of the pen and he still wasn’t very interested. He went off exploring J’s yard, peed on a tree, and looked for forgotten cookies in the grass while we talked about the dogs. I got to touch tiny little puppy feet and itty bitty puppy toenails, look at teeny tiny puppy teeth, feel little puppy ears… oh my God, now *I* have puppy fever.
After agility practice J got the puppies out of the ex-pen and let them prowl around the yard with Auggie. NOW he was interested in them. They were playful and feisty and that got him all excited. He bowled one of them over (she was being called Bullwinkle) playing chase, it was hilarious. I opened his water bottle and started to pour water into his travel bowl, and he was drinking from the stream coming from the bottle (as usual) – and Bullwinkle came over to see what he was doing, and he backed up to let her drink from his water bottle! It was soooo cute, this tiny puppy with her nose shoved into his water bottle and Auggie waiting patiently for her to finish so he could get a drink next…
Now I have a pretty good idea of how Auggie will react once I bring a puppy home. He acted much like I expected… we just have to make sure he plays gentle, because I don’t think he realizes they’re very small and he needs to be careful!
Two years ago…
Two years ago, I woke up at 5:45 AM. I’m not a morning person – far from it – but my eyes snapped open, and I thought, “PUPPY!”
We left our house at 7, and left the breeder’s house at quarter ’til 9, my arms full of a small, squirmy, fuzzy little puppy.
Two years ago I brought Auggie into my home for the first time.
Now…
Later that night, I wrote this in my livejournal:
“I love my puppy… …it is as though all were right in the world.”
Two years later and, it’s still true. I can’t put my overwhelming love for this dog, my emotions, into words. He is my best friend, my protector, my little buddy, my snuggle-bug, a playmate, a fuzzy foot warmer… my little baby dog.
Two years later – and hopefully there will be many many more years to come.
Mister Auggie, I sure am glad I met you.
Growing Like A Flower
He just keeps growing – becoming less of a puppy, and more of a dog. His coat will continue to change for at least another year.
He’s awfully happy all the time, though.
I sit with my paws crossed!
A Small Puppy
Why, hello world! I am a very happy little puppy!
A fuzzy puppy coat!
I’m pretty small still.
I like to eat grass! It tastes delicious!
Some shelties have a smile. I smirk!
