Baby T's arrival
By Carole on Tuesday, January 1, 2002 - 02:43 pm:
Baby is a rescue - his owners house caught on fire yesterday morning, and the entire family was in critical care as of noon yesterday. I need to check today's paper and see if there's any more info available. As far as I can tell he was a Christmas present for one of the children - was being kept outside, which saved his life. I looked out my kitchen window yesterday about 1:15 and saw him trying to follow some woman down the alley behind the house. I remembered seeing the kids with a puppy last Friday, put 2 and 2 together and went to save the puppy.
Dusty is NOT HAPPY. He's not well socialized with other dogs anyway, and he keeps trying to pick him up! I do not leave them alone together at all, but am trying to convince him that a)puppy is a good thing b) puppy does NOT taste good and c) puppy is under Mom's divine protection and woe be to the Beardie that blows it! :-) I've been encouraging him to be with the puppy supervised, and allowing him to sniff all he wants, but no tasting! It doesn't help that puppy is teething and thinks Uncle Dusty's paws are giant teething toys.
any advice out there for this situation? I think once baby is older and larger things will be ok, but this first month or so is going to be a real challenge. How is Pippin with Shelly's little ones?
Baby is a rescue - his owners house caught on fire yesterday morning, and the entire family was in critical care as of noon yesterday. I need to check today's paper and see if there's any more info available. As far as I can tell he was a Christmas present for one of the children - was being kept outside, which saved his life. I looked out my kitchen window yesterday about 1:15 and saw him trying to follow some woman down the alley behind the house. I remembered seeing the kids with a puppy last Friday, put 2 and 2 together and went to save the puppy.
Dusty is NOT HAPPY. He's not well socialized with other dogs anyway, and he keeps trying to pick him up! I do not leave them alone together at all, but am trying to convince him that a)puppy is a good thing b) puppy does NOT taste good and c) puppy is under Mom's divine protection and woe be to the Beardie that blows it! :-) I've been encouraging him to be with the puppy supervised, and allowing him to sniff all he wants, but no tasting! It doesn't help that puppy is teething and thinks Uncle Dusty's paws are giant teething toys.
any advice out there for this situation? I think once baby is older and larger things will be ok, but this first month or so is going to be a real challenge. How is Pippin with Shelly's little ones?
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