What a charming, well mannered young man!
No, he’s just grey :(
Amazing
I’d meant to update on Sookie’s button progress. Here is a recent clip of her first time incorporating “want” into a request. “Ice food” is her way of asking for her frozen Kong for context.
It was just last week. She’s in the onesie because she was just spayed 2 weeks ago. (Highly recommend Suitical surgical recovery suits! It was great to not have to use the cone). Today is her first day off of exercise restrictions and we are so happy about that!!!
If you're into Audible books, her book was a great listen. She includes the sounds of Stella using her buttons.
We ended up with a pink and blue, they are both so cute.
I realized that wearing one suit for 14 days would be a bit of a stretch, so bought a second from my vet’s office after the first couple of days. It was helpful to be able to swap out and wash the worn suit every few days.
Partition off a small area for the puppies to stay in, like a laundry room or part of a larger room. It's so much easier to potty train them to use puppy pads in a small area, and easier to clean up the mess they will make. Sookie will get used to them thru the partition, and you can let them run around in a larger area for awhile right after they've pooped/peed. Sookie will probably make friends with them, but will also be relieved when they go back to their "den." Oh, and put a small crate in there for them to sleep in, so they get used to being crated. They may cry the first couple of nights, but they'll have each other, and will adapt quickly. Good for you for fostering -- you're saving 4 lives, not just 2.Awhile ago we had been approved to do some fostering with a local rescue.. but due to things like Sookie unexpectedly going into heat 2 days before her original spay date in late June and preexisting plans that kept falling on the weekends of pups being transported north, we hadn’t actually gotten around to doing it. Now Sookie is all healed up and ski season is rapidly approaching and closing the good timing for fostering.
So.. tomorrow we are taking our first fosters in. That’s right, plural! Lol We somehow decided to take 2 siblings from a litter of pups. I was thinking it’d be an easier transition for them if they had each other. Now that it is 24 hours away though, I am quite nervous. Excited too, but definitely a bit nervous.
I’ve never taken care of more than one dog at a time, and now I’m going to care for 3?!? Eek! And these are young puppies which means they aren’t potty trained and are probably teething or about to be. Oh and Sookie has never had another dog in our house before, though she is very happy to meet other dogs on leash and in play groups we’ve gone to. So I am hoping very much that she isn’t going to be majorly put out by the newcomers.
My hopes are to have a positive experience so we can help be a stop over for more fosters in the future. I also feel it’s great exposure for Sookie to have some temporary friends at home (hopefully they will all be fast friends), and a great chance to see how it is to have multiple dogs at home for a short term commitment. I do want to add another to our family when Sookie is a bit older, but want to see how she would feel about that too.
Any words of wisdom for us before the chaos ensues??
