The breeder finally called back
She said that picking up on Saturday will be fine, and that he's been running, chasing, and playing a lot.
At this point, I'll believe it when I have him home with me.
My sister called at 7:30 this morning (mainly because she knew I'd still be asleep and she gets a kick out of disrupting my sleep when I'm not working) and said she'd pick him up for me since she only works about 20 minutes away from there.
Do I trust her not to do something stupid that will hurt my puppy?
This is the same person who set my purse behind the wheel of my car so that she could "rearrange" things where she was sittng, left it there without telling me, and let me run over it with the car. Then thought I had no right to be angry with her because everything in there was broken. She and her family thought it was pretty funny. Come on, try and convince me that wasn't deliberate.
She's the kind of person who will stop on the side of the highway because "she needs a smoke break" and be so wrapped up in herself that she'd let the puppy run into traffic and get run over.
Tell her the sky is blue and she'll swear you told her it was plaid, and be genuinely puzzled about why you get everything wrong when everybody knows the sky is pink.
If I let her do this, she'll forget something vital like say, oh, the puppy's health and registration papers.
If I let her do this, maybe she'll forget that a puppy needs to be taken to potty at least every hour, and he'll mess up her car a couple of times on the way home. :) Hmm. That idea has its merits.
I still can't decide what kind of crate to get for him though. I don't know if I should get one of those "pet taxis" that's closed up and dark inside, or if I should get him a little wire crate for his kennel. Everything I read says they're happier and easier to housebreak when they have a little "den" of their own. I need to get him a little playpen too, because the house really isn't ready for him and you shouldn't give a puppy free reign of the house until he's housebroken anyway. By the time he's 6 months old, he'll probably be finished teething and won't be so interested in chewing up all my stuff, so then he can run around most of the time without me.
I feel bad about the idea of putting him in what is essentially a cage, but it looks like that's the approved way for training and keeping a puppy safe - especially one that'll be alone for about 8 hours of every day. Well, I am planning to let him have a pretty good area of the kitchen to hang out in, if not all of it. I just hope he doesn't discover that little torn area of the linoleum under the dishwasher. Chewing that up could kill him. Maybe I'll just keep him penned in the other half of the kitchen.
I've got a feeling that my Dad's gonna let himself in to play with my puppy while I'm at work. LOL But that's okay. Dad really wants a dog, but he doesn't want to deal with all the mundane things like feeding and potty breaks on a set schedule. He says it wouldn't be fair to a dog, and if he's asleep most of the day, he's right. :) So he'll probably borrow my puppy a lot when I'm not here. It'll keep the puppy company.
At this point, I'll believe it when I have him home with me.
My sister called at 7:30 this morning (mainly because she knew I'd still be asleep and she gets a kick out of disrupting my sleep when I'm not working) and said she'd pick him up for me since she only works about 20 minutes away from there.
Do I trust her not to do something stupid that will hurt my puppy?
This is the same person who set my purse behind the wheel of my car so that she could "rearrange" things where she was sittng, left it there without telling me, and let me run over it with the car. Then thought I had no right to be angry with her because everything in there was broken. She and her family thought it was pretty funny. Come on, try and convince me that wasn't deliberate.
She's the kind of person who will stop on the side of the highway because "she needs a smoke break" and be so wrapped up in herself that she'd let the puppy run into traffic and get run over.
Tell her the sky is blue and she'll swear you told her it was plaid, and be genuinely puzzled about why you get everything wrong when everybody knows the sky is pink.
If I let her do this, she'll forget something vital like say, oh, the puppy's health and registration papers.
If I let her do this, maybe she'll forget that a puppy needs to be taken to potty at least every hour, and he'll mess up her car a couple of times on the way home. :) Hmm. That idea has its merits.
I still can't decide what kind of crate to get for him though. I don't know if I should get one of those "pet taxis" that's closed up and dark inside, or if I should get him a little wire crate for his kennel. Everything I read says they're happier and easier to housebreak when they have a little "den" of their own. I need to get him a little playpen too, because the house really isn't ready for him and you shouldn't give a puppy free reign of the house until he's housebroken anyway. By the time he's 6 months old, he'll probably be finished teething and won't be so interested in chewing up all my stuff, so then he can run around most of the time without me.
I feel bad about the idea of putting him in what is essentially a cage, but it looks like that's the approved way for training and keeping a puppy safe - especially one that'll be alone for about 8 hours of every day. Well, I am planning to let him have a pretty good area of the kitchen to hang out in, if not all of it. I just hope he doesn't discover that little torn area of the linoleum under the dishwasher. Chewing that up could kill him. Maybe I'll just keep him penned in the other half of the kitchen.
I've got a feeling that my Dad's gonna let himself in to play with my puppy while I'm at work. LOL But that's okay. Dad really wants a dog, but he doesn't want to deal with all the mundane things like feeding and potty breaks on a set schedule. He says it wouldn't be fair to a dog, and if he's asleep most of the day, he's right. :) So he'll probably borrow my puppy a lot when I'm not here. It'll keep the puppy company.
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