Well folks,
we brought our new puppy home on Friday. She has been christened and re-named twice, from Pepper, to Poppy and finally to Jenni, and Jenni she will stay! (Jenni Wren, 'cos she's so tiny!).
Ast first Millie just wanted to play, she scared poor Jenni to death by bouncing at her, and Jenni tried to scrabble up Tristian's trouser leg! Once she'd calmed down Millie decided she actually didn't want this new dog in her old crate (even though she hasn't used it in months! so we had folded it up!), and that she didn't want this new pup playing with her toys (we'd even bought the pup some new toys, which Millie proceeded to claim!). Then came the grumbles between them, or rather the grumbles at Jenni from Millie and we we woried that Millie wouldn't actually accepted sharing her home. (thanks for your PM Colin, it helped to know you were in a similiar boat
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Anyway, Saturday and today have been pretty much non-stop WWF Wrestlemania Tag team championships ... they have wrestled and chased and fought .. the noise is un-believable, but the whole time their tails are wagging
Millie will actually pile-drive Jenni if she happens to be on her back... she almost 'lamb jumps' onto her (all four feet off the floor!)
Currently they are having a time-out ... which has been difficult to arrange as the crate is upstairs and it's flamin' heavy!! So, time to flex the credit muscles and buy another for downstairs and the car hehe, I've actually been looking at the collaspable canvas ones - anyone know if they're any good? :?:
Toilet training is, well, it kinda isn't - she obviously never grasped the concept of the newspaper back at the breeders, or if she had shes forgotten! My kitchen/diner floor is covered in newspaper, which gets shuffled and shoved about when the Tag team come into play! :roll: :roll: its a right mess
She's also messed in her crate (pee's and poo's even when the door has been open, to the crate and the back garden :roll:
Because her toilet training isn't too hot, it's been difficult at night to know why she is crying.
The first night she was in the crate in our room and she cried and cried
in the end I had to sleep by her (naughty I know :shock:) but Tristian had to be up at 5am to drive to Surrey, so he needed to get some sleep.
Last night we went to bed and stayed up watching some telly, she was in the crate fast asleep, but woke about a half hour after lights out. I took her out for a pee and a poop and then back to bed. She cried for about 15minutes then went to sleep. She was awake again at 12, 3 and 6 - at 6 I got up and took her outside, she had a wee and a poop and then we went back to bed - I let her sleep on the bed this time, she was quiet and slept through til about 9am. I've got a DAP coming, which will hopefully help aswell.
So our adventures have been ok so far - the toilet training took us by surprise, but we were very luckily getting Millie, she was 15weeks and pretty much house trained, although again she never pee'd n the newspaper if it was down either :?
But now Jenni goes out after every play session, once she's woken up, first thing in the morning and usually either just before or just after her meal.
My mum etc came round to see her, Mum tried to steal her but it didn't work
Kel
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