Crating success!

Little darlings spent the entire night (or at least from about 1:00 when I went to bed till 6:30 or so when Mike got up!) in their crates. Not a peep out of them all night. I stayed downstairs on the sofa and set their crates next to it so they could see and hear me. With previous pups I have sometimes had to stick my fingers through the door to comfort them if they cried, but these guys were angels. Let's hope it continues. Tonight be be a breeze again, or it could be another story entirely. Well see!

Happy 5th Birthday Fada!

Not a great start to (another) rainy Monday

Pups have been being crated individually for car rides. They are eating out of separate bowls, each shut into their own crate. I have put them in their crates for short periods while I ran errands during the day. We need to move on to being crated at night, rather than together in the pen. To further that cause, I had Mike put them their crates when he left this morning, so they would be back to bed for a couple hours in crates.

The screaming started almost immediately! Tried ear buds with music and pillow over head, but no more sleep for me! Had to wait out the screaming fit though, so as not to reward it. I was pretty sure I recognized which voice it was, but will not mention, to protect the not so innocent. <g>

When after over an hour it finally got silent, I came down to let them out. ONE puppy (one has to assume the screamer) had a poop blow out in the crate. So pups go out to the back yard while I clean out crate. ICK! Then someone got their first bath. Five pounds of struggling, wriggling, screaming, wet Podengo baby is NOT easy to hold on to!


And how did YOU start your week?

Happy May Day!

Fada

9 1/2 weeks

Last evening I was teaching a couple of private lessons, so took the pups to the training building with me. They happily ran around the building, chasing after me and then I took them up to the tunnel. All they have seen up to now is the nylon and fleece cat tunnel in my living room, so wasn't sure what they would do. Vettel went right through! Daz kept wanting to run around it, but when a friend arrived to hold Daz at the end so I could call her, she ran right through, They happily bounded through again and again.

They are getting into more and more as they romp loose in the house. It's getting tougher to try to work while they are loose! Donna, I am pretty certain if we called in a forensic team though, it would not be YOUR puppy's tooth marks on the cord for the phone charger. : ) They play and romp with all of my adult dogs and generally have a blast.

More photos posted on Picasa, more video shortly!