Puppies!!

Alex and I went a whole week without any Guide Dog Puppies and we found that we missed them terribly. So.... I sent out an email to the Fort Collins group just letting people know that if they needed a break we would be more than glad to sit for them. The emails came flooding in and now we have puppies lined up for about the next month. And we still managed to arrange the visits around skiing too. Yippee!!!

The first to arrive is Dessa. She is just over 5 months old and super sweet. She is a very dominant puppy so she gets to spend a lot of time in our lap on her back. Her raisers have really done a great job with her, she has a great handle on most commands already. She's not sure what to make of the kitties but so far there haven't been too many kitty-doggy brawls. Thank Goodness. That and we put gates up all over the house where the kitties go. The Gates are about 1/2 foot off the ground. That way the kitties can go under to get to their food but the puppies can't go in. So far its working nicely. The seem to be a bit more relaxed. They would guard their food to the death. We have Dessa for a week so we will have lots of time to try the gates out.

We had a few inches of snow last night and Dessa went out with me this morning to help shovel off the deck. I snapped a few pictures, because she was just way to cute leaping through the snow.

This picture makes her look huge but she is really very small for her age.

Dessa all covered in snow after we finished shoveling off the deck. She had a blast eating the snow as I pushed it into piles.

Dessa is teething and so she really likes the rubber ring toy. She is learning to lay on blankets without eating them too. She is laying on the new blanket I just made out of a scrap of fleece I found at JoAnn's. It's covered in Dalmatian puppies and fire hydrants.

Dessa says: "what do you want, can't you see I am busy chewing on my toy?"