11-16-11

Sorry it's been so long! Crazy busy weekend. LOTS has happened.

All the dogs have moved inside because of the cold weather. The garage is always warmer than outside, but still pretty chilly when it's 30degrees outside!! I wouldn't want to sleep out there, so why would I make them?

The first night was great. Princess slept in our room and the rest of the dogs all slept in their kennels downstairs.
The next night....not so great. Delilah has definitely found her voice box! She will just scream if you leave her in her kennel. The worst scream you have ever heard. She can't hear herself (lucky for her!). It's pretty much unbearable, but I think it's because when they are deaf (I've been reading a lot about deaf dogs) they bond with their human and they have really bad anxiety if they can't see you or don't know where you are. We have one really big kennel and I put both girls in it, just to see if maybe having her sister next to her would help, nope.
So, she has been sleeping on a dog bed in our bedroom on my side. And when she wakes up I usually throw my arm or leg over the side of the bed so she can see that I'm still there. She licks me and then goes back to bed. Only bad thing, is she gets up to go potty at 4am....however, today it was 5am...we're getting better. I am not morning person!!

We've been working on socializing Daisy and that's been going great. Actually, today she's in the house (off a leash) and hasn't growled once. Yay! Now if I can only get her to leave the rabbits alone outside!!! She loves being upstairs with the rest of us and took to lounging in the dog bed with a bone (like my other lazy dogs) right away. Like "oh, thats what they do here...ok"

Tiger, onry boy! He does great going in and out for potty breaks and back to his kennel without me having to tell him too. He's been in the house with out a leash as well and doesn't have any aggression issues, he does however feel very overwhelmed by all the sniffing noses and just put his head on the door like "LET ME OUT!!" or just goes and sits in his kennel to get away from it all. Very well mannered inside. Outside, not so much. He has started really jumping and nipping at your hands....I'm trying to replace my hand with a toy everytime. Making him sit and telling him no, then handing him a toy to play with. *sigh* we're working on it. He's too big to be doing that, I would hate for him to do that to a small child. Even though he's only being playful, that could really scare someone. So hopefully, we'll get him to stop that soon.

I do have some more pictures, I'll post later today. Hopefully you'll be able to tell they've gained more weight!