Daily Life
February 7, 2007
Exciting happenings in our puppy’s young life. Tonight Kellogg sat for his dinner and for some treats we gave him. We just think he is the smartest, sweetest puppy ever, only two days and he has sit down pat like an expert.
Nothing out of the normal as a whole though, just the regular routine like most of the week. When we got home, I would sit down and play with the dog as Sarah would work in the kitchen cleaning and getting dinner ready. Then we would eat with him in the kitchen and play with him afterwards. He is starting to expand his range of things he chews on, the most recent of things being his box in his cage, and a little bit of the cage itself. I don’t know how much longer the box will last. It isn’t in bad shape now, but in another couple of weeks with 8 hours at home he should be able to make some pretty significant holes.
February 6, 2007
As I had mentioned, for a least a week now he has been less than thrilled about us picking him up to take him out to do his business. But today was the first time that he climbed the steps on the back porch, both the ledge to the grass and the two steps, and made his own way back into the house like a grown dog.
But not too fast, he is still a puppy and is nipping at anything that moves in front of his face, pant legs, fingers, clothing. We have to be stern because although adorable right now, not a good habit to have when he is older.
February 5, 2007
Today was the first day at the new office, and I made it home to be with the dog in 8 minutes. Pretty fantastic.
Today when I was playing with him at lunch was the first time I noticed that he seemed to be getting bigger. It makes me really happy to know that because of us he is growing, we are nurturing a puppy to a large dog, and we get to be a part of the whole progression.
Tonight when we got home, Sarah started to work with him on doing different things like sitting, staying, and laying down. It was only a little while, but he seems to understand sitting pretty good so far in such a short time.
February 4, 2007
Today is Super Bowl Sunday, and it was a big day for us since the Colts were playing against the Chicago Bears. We had some invites to go other places, but opted to stay home. I had traveled for each game, and was longing to be at the house, and having the puppy made it that much more inviting to spend time with him.
But I didn’t spend that much time with him, I worked for most of the day up and until the game. Sarah did though, the usual, she cuddled with him, took him out to go potty, etc. etc. It was a fairly nasty day, and he did a lot of squirming trying to get away, and then when we got him outside, he would stand next to or on our feet and whine as the brittle wind whipped through his frail body.
During game time, we both had our jerseys on, and he laid on Sarah in the beanbag. He was so cute, and we got quite a few good photos of him. (One of which we later got framed.) We did startle him a little bit, he would look up all surprised and excited when we would shout or cheer at the tv for what was going on.
It wasn’t the first time, but when Kellogg would get excited, he would respond to each of us. For me he tried to jump up on the couch to get me, and for Sarah he would try to eat her hair, twisting all around and nipping at it. Pretty cute stuff.
February 3, 2007
We alternated spending time with Kellogg today, I was gone to the gym in the morning, and then home for a little bit with him before I had to go into work to help move and some other stuff. We both spent time with him after dinner and then we had to get back to doing some of our respective things. Later on during the night, we took our first new “family” photo of the three of us together because Sarah was making it up for the class she was taking. He was so cute, we couldn’t get him to look at the camera but it was nice to have a photo of us all together, it made it seem like our future was ahead of us.
Our cute puppy story for the day was, Sarah noticed Kellogg doing something odd in the kitchen. He seemed to be doing some sort of Army crawl around on the kitchen floor through the pegs on the chair legs. He went through two before he would wander sideways out into the family room. We have no idea what it was all about, but it wasn’t the last time that he did it, and it was cute, but didn’t make any sense.
February 2, 2007
Kellogg was eating more this morning, which made us feel a little better. But, it was weighing on my mind what to do about his parvo test. As I have mentioned, from what little we know, it appears that waiting any amount of time can be fatal for a young dog, but leaving work for a day really isn’t a good idea either to have this sort of thing taken care of.
When I got into work I called two other veterinarian offices to try to do some fact finding. I didn’t get too much peace of mind, and what I kept coming back to was that Banfield had better hours in general than a regular vet office. I had been sick all week, so when my boss came in and heard what was going on, he told me to just take a half day, take the puppy in and get some rest. So that is exactly what I did.
I got home, fed Kellogg, and then rushed him down to Banfield to take his test. I held him close as I took him inside through the cold weather in his box. He was pretty restless in the office, whining and trying to get out of his box, and I had to reign him in. When the doctor came in she stuck a q-tip like thing in his rear end, and I held him as he yelped. Then, it was only a matter of waiting, it would only take 15 minutes to get results back.
Thank God, the results came back negative, I was relieved and I knew Sarah would be too. what this also meant was that since he had the shot earlier in the week, and this test came back negative we could get him on the wellness plan. This was a package they set up for new dog owners, especially geared towards puppies, to be comprehensive and take care of all of the shots, visits, and even the neutering for a very reasonable price we thought. We could go month to month, or pay up front for the whole year. I was still nervous, because of what had happened so far to do the year up front, so I just went month to month. It was the exact same amount either way.
Sarah came home right after school and was very happy to hear the good news. Kellogg just stayed downstairs with me. He was so sleepy and cute, I wrapped him up in my blanket and set him on my desk so I could watch him. We got some great photos of him sleeping upside down with his ear over his head.
We had some dinner, gave him some attention, and all snuggled for the rest of the night, watching some movies. Tonight was also the night that Kellogg got his first rawhide, and he just loved it. We loved watching him. I don’t think any toy he has had quite this response, he just chewed and chewed and did nothing else for the rest of the night until he had eaten it all. He would walk around with it, chew and make the squeaky noise, stand still and look at us with it hanging out of the side of his mouth like an errant doggie tongue, and he would even like to share it with us, climbing up on us laying down and working away at demolishing this resistant white flavored goodie.
Kellogg (Our Puppy) Photo Gallery
