He's here!

[cazza]

What lovely pics - Glad I'm not the only up at the dogly hour this morning 5.30am here (Old time) 

Glad Bella and Zorro are getting along OK it'll get even better once they get used to each other, but if not just post Zorro to me Bella too if you want as they are both gorgeous

[sarahp]

Oh Claire he is an absolute stunner    

Sounds like Princess Bella is doing a stoic job of putting up with her new bratty brother    (Daisy says she'll send some tips for brother squashing if Bella runs out of ideas   )

Hope tonight is as successful as last night!!

[Annette]

Sounds pretty good so far.

Hope tonight's a good one!


Are you taking time off work?

[scooby's mum]

Hiya Claire

So glad everything's settling down for you, god I admire you for taking Bella out this morning at 7.30am, I'm that exhausted poor Scooby has only had 20 mins walk today 

Zorro is gorgeous and looks huge to me - is he 9 weeks or am I getting confused?  Misty's 8 weeks and she looks absolutely tiny compared to Zorro. 

He's gorgeous though, bet you're so chuffed.  Like you, I've been putting Misty's food in the crate and she's happy to nibble at it in there, and she's happy to sleep in the crate when the door is open, it's just when she's left alone 

Anyway, Bella seems to be coming round to the idea doesn't she?  Although Scooby seems to really like Misty, he is a little quiet though - mind you, she has been sleeping in his bed today - he didn't seem to mind though but as soon as she woke up and got out he jumped in to claim it back 

Anyway, hope tonight goes well for you and look forward to the update tomorrow 

[clairep4]

Well the 2nd night was great - he woke us up once for a wee at 3am and settled back down straight away, and slept till 6.30 which is when we get up anyway.

Bella was very grumbly with him first thing, I think she just wasn't awake enough as she tends to go back to bed till 7.30 and likes her lie-ins. I took her for her walk and she was much better when she got back, wagging at him and playbowing and they had a short game of tug so that's good.

We're taking 2 weeks off between us (mainly OH as I've hardly any holiday left this year so I'm doing lots of half days) and will start on getting him okay with being on his own for short periods from today, and of course the all important socialisation, so he'll be having his first little carry around the local streets today. 

He's a lovely boy, very cuddly and very free and easy with his kisses!

He is a fair bit bigger than Bella was but she is a pint-size, people still think she's a puppy and she's nearly 2 now. We were going to have her old puppy bed in his crate but he actually fills the puppy bed up already (he's 10 weeks tomorrow) so we've ditched that and he just has the crate as his bed - I think we're going to need to buy a bigger one! 

[Nicola]

Missed this as well...

Zorro is gorgeous Claire, sounds like he's settled in fabulously already  and I'm sure Bella will soon get to like having him around too 

How are you getting on with his barf diet?

I'm sooooo puppy broody it's unbelievable! 

[clairep4]

How are you getting on with his barf diet?

Sharon had already started him down this track as he's been having chicken wings and mince for a while now (plus Burns). I'm feeding him 2 meals of Burns and 2 of raw at the moment, so yesterday he had one meal which was mince and veg mixed up (gone in a about 2 seconds) and then a chicken wing for dinner. I'm very impressed with the way he eats his chicken wings, crunches them well and truly up and doesn't guzzle so that's good. When he goes onto 3 meals he'll have one of Burns and 2 raw, and then just 2 raw meals eventually. I might try him on a bit of breast of lamb next week to see how he gets on, give him something to get his teeth into! 

He really loves his food, in fact he goes into full body waggles over it and this morning for his Burns he had to sit down to eat as he couldn't get it in his gob for waggling too much!  He also makes these contented little squeaks to himself as he's eating (does the same with a carrot), it's very endearing!