Elyse & Beau
August 05, 2009
Hello Joey and Kenny,
Many
times this past week, we've talked of you, so
grateful for the work you do and for the first
eight weeks of Beau's life because he is just a
delightful, sweet little pup!
This is a bit like having a new baby in the house, and for the first few nights, he needed to go out several times. The second night was Stewart's turn to do a night, and the "plan" was for him (like me the night before) to sleep on the couch with Beau's crate on the wood floor nearby. If he whimpered, he'd sing him back to sleep (like I did the night before), and if he was restless and moving around in his crate, he would take him outside and then immediately back in the crate so Beau understood that it was sleeptime.
So...
When I come down at 6am that next morning, what do I see but an empty couch and an empty crate. I turn to the kitchen, and what I see is Beau, ears perked up, laying down right alongside Stewart, who is on the kitchen floor completely asleep with a pillow and throw blanket. This is not what we had planned. Turns out, our PhD Stew has a hard time remembering certain things! He said, with puppy dog eyes: "We didn't go over the schedule!" (lie.) At 2am, Stewart was playing fetch with Beau in the backyard!
Since then, nights have been fine, and Stewart has done very well parenting our pup!
Beau is a total sweetheart, and loves to be snuggled, and to play, and to chew, chew, chew on his toys. He's also extremely excited to eat his cup of puppy food three times a day. We transitioned him to Puppy Eukunuba after the Purina sample pack was gone, and he's done great with it.
When I took him to the Vet last week, he weighed 13 pounds, and they all concurred he was a beautiful dog.
Thanks so much, and we'll stay in touch!
Elyse
This is a bit like having a new baby in the house, and for the first few nights, he needed to go out several times. The second night was Stewart's turn to do a night, and the "plan" was for him (like me the night before) to sleep on the couch with Beau's crate on the wood floor nearby. If he whimpered, he'd sing him back to sleep (like I did the night before), and if he was restless and moving around in his crate, he would take him outside and then immediately back in the crate so Beau understood that it was sleeptime.
So...
When I come down at 6am that next morning, what do I see but an empty couch and an empty crate. I turn to the kitchen, and what I see is Beau, ears perked up, laying down right alongside Stewart, who is on the kitchen floor completely asleep with a pillow and throw blanket. This is not what we had planned. Turns out, our PhD Stew has a hard time remembering certain things! He said, with puppy dog eyes: "We didn't go over the schedule!" (lie.) At 2am, Stewart was playing fetch with Beau in the backyard!
Since then, nights have been fine, and Stewart has done very well parenting our pup!
Beau is a total sweetheart, and loves to be snuggled, and to play, and to chew, chew, chew on his toys. He's also extremely excited to eat his cup of puppy food three times a day. We transitioned him to Puppy Eukunuba after the Purina sample pack was gone, and he's done great with it.
When I took him to the Vet last week, he weighed 13 pounds, and they all concurred he was a beautiful dog.
Thanks so much, and we'll stay in touch!
Elyse