River puppy
We got another batch of foster puppies from the rescue org last Thursday (I think it was Thursday, anyway - some time last week). Sweet dogs. All of them seem to be crate trained & paper trained quite nicely. In fact the big ones seem to know they are supposed to go outside & are holding it until then, for the most part.
The bigger ones are some kind of boxer, maybe? They are quiet, not possessive of food (but, they do get kind of frisky when there’s rawhide involved), none of that ear-biting, puppy-fighting stuff, except when provoked by the little black puppies.
The little ones are not from the same litter, at least as not as far as we know, anyway. The bigger one is poodly. He’s feisty & often challenges the other dogs, big and small. He & the other little one are a bit possessive of food, but nothing vicious, just some growling & yipping.
The tiny one is simply adorable. He was found in a river, weighing about two pounds. His foster family down south nursed him up to about four pounds. He’s probably around 5 or 6 pounds, now. Cute puppy belly, loves being scratched & held.
One of the big pups figured out how to jump the wall in the puppy pen. I came home the other night, after running errands, to find her wandering around the house on her own. She had peed & pooped upstairs, but, it was on the bathroom floor, so not much of a mess to clean up. I wonder if she would have used the paper in the kitchen if I had left it down. Either way, though, it was smart of her to go on the bathroom floor instead of on the carpet. And, she hadn’t chewed up anything in the house, otherwise.
Earlier that day, I had worked Market Day pickup & was telling the Market Day rep about the puppies. She told me that she had a dog crate that she wasn’t using & asked if I wanted it. Boy, did I! I knew that those big pups would be properly crate trained, but didn’t have a crate to put them in overnight (they were sleeping in the puppy pen - the little ones were in the crate in the kitchen).
So, actually, one of the errands that I had been running that night was to pick up that dog crate from the Market Day lady 
Lucky thing, wasn’t it? She called it ‘a god thing’ when she first told me about it. I call it a lucky coincidence.
I set the pups up in the crate that night & they did great!
Not sure how long we’ll have these guys. We’re going on a short vacation in a couple weeks, so they’ll have to be gone by then, for sure. Hope they find wonderful, loving homes one day soon!
