gimini210's Blog

As some of you know I own a pound puppy named Mouse. Well he is hyper active and both my husband and I thought he needed a play mate as Mouse just could not get the squirrels to cooperate. Out of pity for our pup we lost our minds and got a new puppy just 5 and 1/2 wks old. Not sure what breed he is but he is cute and a royal pain. I forgot all the work it takes to house break a puppy as most of our dogs were older and house broken when we got them or it was at least 20 years ago when we last had a puppy.

We now own Mickey. Mickey makes strange noises that resemble something a duck might make if caught by a fox and seems to think it is a bark. He makes this sound then he crickles his brow as if wanting to know who did it. He chews on everything from metal to our shoes, which I never had to deal with but do know some puppies do this. He constantly wants food and he gets rid of it just as often if you know what I mean. So we now have a puppy that eats, poops, and chews on everything.

Now none of this would be too bad except he wears out Mouse and Mouse has taken to hiding from the puppy. So the playmate for our pound puppy is too active for him. They do play and they are really roudy and they seem to like each other but now I have two hyper active dogs with one more so than the other and both are smart. So when Mouse hides We are stuck intertaining his playmate and the puppy wears us both out. Now we all have to take naps just to survive the new guy.

I would not have taken on a puppy if it hadn't been for the fact that he was on death row and now I wonder where my mind was. For the few minutes it took for puppy breath, which smells like skunk, and sad brown eyes, with a funny bark and a wigglely body hadn't gotten to my soft side. I just wonder now which of all of us will survive puppyhood. Mickey, Mouse or us? Getting up twice a nite to walk him is exsausting and it would be nice if my shoes were not chewed on and he didn't like pulling my hair.

I am quickly forgetting how it felt to get coffee without a puppy chewing my anckles as I try to walk and my toes when I sit. I am wondering if I will ever get to sleep past 5 a.m. and not have to get up at 12 a.m. and 2 a.m. to take him out. I want my king size bed to myself and not have two dogs vying for the best place closet to me to the point I can't move. After all it is a huge bed with plenty of room only with a dog at the back of my knees and one at my gut I can't hardly move because of my mutts.

I do have to admit when Mickey has to go at night he grabs a chunk of my hair and pulls till it hurts and if that doesn't work he just bites my ear and I get up and out we go so that part is easy for him but kinda hard on me. I do own a shampooer so I can keep the oopsies cleaned up. But I do want to make it clear at some point I lost my mind to think I would want a puppy. Now I have one and if I make it past his six month b-day then we all will have made it. Just say a prayer because like it or not the puppy will stay because I do not believe in dumping a small pain on some one else. I made the choise while out of my mind but now that I have Mickey has a permanent home. I will post pics of Mickey and Mouse together as soon as I get some.

Take care and God Bless.