Yesterday we hit our one week mark, and we finally have adopted Collin. They give you a week to make sure things work out and if not they take him back. Well he is working out great. We are just waiting on our paper work for him, so we can go register him with the army.
The first time I left him alone was not so great. He shredded my curtains. Then he managed to lock himself in the laundry room, and he must of panicked. He shredded the brand new 42 lb bag of dog food. Then he decided to pull the vent out of the wall and eat the dry wall. Let's just say it was not a great welcome home present. But we got him a kennel and he is doing really well in it. He doesn't go in it on his own, we just have to "help" him in there. Other than the first day I left him alone, he hasn't really ruined too much stuff. He DOESN'T touch the kids' or really chew anything that he isn't suppose to.
As for him and Cyra the cat. They are doing alright. As of right now she stays upstairs and he stays down stairs til its bed time. We have baby gates at the top and bottom of the stairs. When she feels good she comes down and will sniff him. He just gets too excited for her and she runs off. Today she came all the way into the kitchen and she was doing okay until he got excited and she ran, then he chased her. I mean for him only being here a week, I think we're making great progress. I am confident that maybe in a few months we won't have to worry too much about them.
The kids have been doing great. Cooper can now climb on to every piece of furniture we have. Ciarrah is doing well. We only have just over a month til summer break. We are getting ready to put up our swimming pool. Once we have someone come out and level our back yard a bit. We tried to put it up today and we found out that it is really uneven.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
New Addition
Yep that's right, we got a new puppy. Well he's more like the size of a horse lol, but is super sweet. We picked him up yesterday from Dallas, TX. He was in a great foster home and he's really sweet. His name is Collin and they think he's about 1-2 years old, but they are not completely sure. We have a 10 day trial period to make sure that he is the right fit for our family, they he will become officially ours :)
When we talking to the foster mom she made him sound like he was a really hard to get along with dog. She says he chews everything and he doesn't really care for guys. Also that he has a lot of energy. When we picked him up yesterday he didn't have too much energy. We took him on a mile walk last night and after the walk all he did was lye around. Today we took him to the lake and ran with him and all he has done since we got back is sleep. I am thinking that maybe they just didn't exercise him enough?? But who knows.
They also said that he has REALLY bad separation anxiety. I guess its a good thing that I am a hermit lol. She said he has a tendency to chew lots of stuff up when he's left alone, so we will see I guess.
He is very gentle with the kids. He sometimes knocks Cooper over, but he will hopefully learn. He can sit, shake and lye down.
The only thing is he likes our cat, but our cat doesn't know what to think of him. She tends to stay upstairs and will occasionally come downstairs to the gate where she will let him sniff her. If he gets too close she will hiss and run away. So for now he stays downstairs and she stays upstairs. At night though she gets locked in the bathroom until they learn to get along.
We are very pleased with him and we are very glad that we have the chance to adopt him.
When we talking to the foster mom she made him sound like he was a really hard to get along with dog. She says he chews everything and he doesn't really care for guys. Also that he has a lot of energy. When we picked him up yesterday he didn't have too much energy. We took him on a mile walk last night and after the walk all he did was lye around. Today we took him to the lake and ran with him and all he has done since we got back is sleep. I am thinking that maybe they just didn't exercise him enough?? But who knows.
They also said that he has REALLY bad separation anxiety. I guess its a good thing that I am a hermit lol. She said he has a tendency to chew lots of stuff up when he's left alone, so we will see I guess.
He is very gentle with the kids. He sometimes knocks Cooper over, but he will hopefully learn. He can sit, shake and lye down.
The only thing is he likes our cat, but our cat doesn't know what to think of him. She tends to stay upstairs and will occasionally come downstairs to the gate where she will let him sniff her. If he gets too close she will hiss and run away. So for now he stays downstairs and she stays upstairs. At night though she gets locked in the bathroom until they learn to get along.
We are very pleased with him and we are very glad that we have the chance to adopt him.
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