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IAN: March 14th, 2025 March Pupdate [1]
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Date: 2025-03-13
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This is Fenna now, sitting half in my lap and half behind me.
Fenna is the one who loves to give kisses, she also likes to tease her brothers. She’ll steal Stewie’s ball and hide it. She’ll play bone keep away with Rhen (even though there are *6* bones in this house right now, they both want the same one). She’s the first in the crate when I call them to it, and LOVES to run in the yard with Buddy and her brothers.
She’s also the most sneaky. She’s the most likely to run off with something off my desk, try to steal a sandwich, or take off with a shoe. She’ll set up a distraction so she or one of the others can get something they want. And if I go to take something to her, she’ll pass it off to Rhen so I have a harder time finding it.
Rhenn, laying under my computer chair and watching the world.
Rhenn is the biggest of our three, I hear Marot is a little bigger, but I don’t have any pics of him, I’ve only seen them on Faith’s phone. He is half a hand taller than his mom, and a little longer, he’s also the bulkiest. It’s not fat, it’s muscle and his build.
He’s the one who will weight down my arms or my feet if I’m in a seizure, while Fenna washes my face and snuffles in my ear trying to bring me out of it. He’s also the one, if he hears a strange noise (like someone next door using a nail gun) he will literally push my wheelchair back towards the house, and he won’t stop until I’m inside. Thursday, when I walked over to check on the little pups and didn’t use my wheelchair because Buddy was asleep in it, pushed at me until I went back to the chair, and then he sat on my feet so I couldn’t get back up.
He helps Fenna in her sneaky escapades, taking off with something he’s not supposed to have so she can sneak onto my desk for something else. Or taking a water bottle lid I’ve dropped from Fenna when I catch her with it, and hiding on the other side of the room with it, hoping I don’t notice.
And then there is Stewie. Here he is sitting and waiting for me to throw the ball.
Stewie is between Rhen and Fenna in size. We’ve discovered handballs work really well for him, just enough bounce and they don’t come apart so easily. They’re also softer and lighter than tennis balls or Kong or Tonka balls, and don’t break things (as often). Right now he has a purple one, a blue, an orange and a green one. Today he is playing with the orange. His sits are getting pretty good, so is his recall. He’s less food motivated then ball motivated, though he likes treats too.
He’s the one who doesn’t care about much of anything; loud noise? Who cares. Car? so what? He decided to jump into the little pond one day, thought that was HUGE fun, until he had to get a bath. He doesn’t like baths. He hasn’t gone into the pond again since. He loves to go out and run around with Buddy and his sibs, doing laps around the driveway, back behind the house to check out the ducks, then back up front again. He bounds through the heavy grass like a deer.
We have finally gotten him to stop nipping when he’s trying to get you to throw the ball, mostly. We make him sit like this, so it’s harder for him to manage it, and we can read his body language and back him off. Sometimes he doesn’t sit all the way, and his body is all tense. He reminds me of someone waiting on second base to steal third.
He loves giving kisses, but you have to watch out for the nips, because he’ll nip your chin if you give him a chance, not enough to hurt, but enough to make you wary.
Buddy. Buddy is my shadow. Inside, he’s almost always within 5 feet of me.
Buddy is fully calm and feels safe again. He’s not a dominant type dog, and he’ll yield even to Fenna. But when he’s outside, he knows how to get the pups to follow him wherever he wants. He’ll race around the circle with them hot on his heels, and he’ll lead them, bounding, into the ‘wet’ side of the yard through the grass. If I tell him to bring the pups down to me, he’ll come racing to me and they’ll follow.
He’s the only one who sleeps with me. Sunny is too rough with Lyta and Ivanova, and I can’t trust the pups not to get into things while I’m asleep so they sleep in their crate. So Buddy sleeps in bed with me. He has his first toy, his piggy, on the bed, and the Giraffe that he got for Christmas. They’re both soft/flat toys, and he has long since killed the squeakers, so they’re no problem. If I slide my hand slowly towards his pig he’ll slap a paw down on my hand. We play tug over the pig, and when he wins he dances around the bed. If he’s not done playing he’ll lay down facing me and chew on the pig. If he’s done he faces away, and I respect that.
If he wasn’t so scared of cars, and big trucks in particular, he’d probably make an excellent service dog. Mostly he’s a good boy, but he likes to chew on my chair cushion if I don’t keep an eye on him.
Sunny, spending some time in bed because Nizz’s nurse was here.
Sunny is loving and snuggly. Much like Razzle, she has to do a perimeter check when she goes out, and then she settles in to run with the other dogs. Right now she isn’t spending as much time out and about because the little pups are still young, but she spends a couple of hours 2-3 times a day out of the crate when they nap. Much like Fenna she LOVES bones, and will lay on two while she chews on one, just so they are ALL HERS.
She is also the Great Destroyer. She’ll chew up chairs, book cases, anything really if you don’t pay enough attention to her.
And then there are the littles.
These little guys are starting to move around the crate easier, and their eyes and ears are opening up.
The black three are Molly (the girl, with a triangle almost of white on her neck on the bottom. Then Mouse who is one of the largest pups, and has a small white line up the back of his neck, similar to Fenna’s, is the pup in the middle. And then way in the back we have Hedwig, who has a lightning bolt across the back of his neck.
The brown/red four are harder to tell apart. The girl is Medea, the really loud big boy is Mongo (named after the Velociraptor in Dungeon Crawler Carl), Aiden is the other big boy, and Cocoa is the smallest brown pup, he’s between Mouse and Hedwig (Hedwig’s head is on him) in the picture. They aren’t big enough yet to be naughty, and I’m sure those brown/red boys will be easier to tell apart as they develop and show their personalities more. But Hedwig pooped on me yesterday, and she tried to suckle on my chin.
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