PUPPY!!!!!!!

get well soon buddy :(

Oh Douglas, you beautiful fool.

he's not happy about his second spell imprisoned in a buster collar.

Widget!

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AWWWW

widget fits in a small box!

very handsome little fellow!

little darling widget<3

"So I don't get what Maru thinks is so grand about boxes...." Seriously, though, Widget is a good and adorable dog.

I got my puppy 2 years ago, despite all the "not just for Christmas rhetoric" he has been brilliant distraction from Christmas and all the other depressing shit the rest of the year round. Here's to Widget!

very adorable wee dog

Ah calz, the breeder (who resisted the impulse to double the price of a puppy because: lockdown) wasn’t intending a Christmas litter but mumdog came in season earlier than expected.

Check out Josie, the mi-ki!

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One more

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A new Josie has appeared!!!

<3

she's the pride of the neighborhood

this little face!

omg i was not aware of the mi-ki until i opened this thread and i am IN LOVE

that blueberry nose needs a smooch pronto

More cuetness:
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Once we get shots, I'd love to bring her out to meet bay area ilxors!

look at those tiny choppers!!

that glossy lower lip!

the little gleam in her eye<3

I had a family dog as a teenager, but at 59, my first since then.

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It's an English Springer Spaniel, two months old. We're having a good first morning. Feels like a day already...two hours.

Very cute!

adorable.

they will keep you busy!

Adorable! Name?

Those big speckled paws!!! So cute!

awwwwwww, what a cutie!! i also want to know the name, but no pressure. this dog is going to have to watch some baseball

Thanks...Fredo, of course. For the first time he disappoints me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjUOBVAbGhQ

(Very gently--I won't shake his head.)

awwwww Fredo!!

Very cute. I hope he's a happy and healthy little pal for you.

I know quite a few Springer Spaniel owners, at some point you may need binoculars when you let him off the lead. Yeah, those big paws are adorable!

i <3 <3 <3 english springer spaniels. they need to run though (calzino otm)

Tracer Hand to thread!

I'm not on a farm, but I have a pretty big backyard where it can run around. Lots of local trails for walking later on.

How was Fredo's first day?

Longest 30 hours of my life...Making incremental progress. I don't think he's done anything out of the ordinary, so that's good.

what is fredo's pooping situation like?

god, those first few months with my puppy Bird were so hectic. she was afraid to go in the hallway, let alone down the elevator and down to the loud streets. so were on puppy pads in the corner by the front door for waaaaay too long

My two labs both housetrained rather quickly. I don't know if I got just lucky, or if its just something they pick up quickly when they have easy access to the outdoors (an apartment would understandably be different).

my favorite part was this one terrible night when Bird had diarrhea and had to go several times, every hour or so. each time, we had to press the button for the elevator and wait an excruciating minute as she whined loudly in the apartment building's hallways, then fight her fears to get outside, and then she'd immediately take a crazy messy dump all over the sidewalk right in front of this one guy who was always there, always smoking a cigarette, and always looking incredibly angry at me. i saw him like 3 times that night

He's been about 50/50 with the washroom so far. It's exasperating when I've got him outside for 20-30 minutes, then he decides to go the second we get in. He's been pretty good in the car for short trips, though (the aforementioned family dog could not handle the car), and I've even been able to leave him in there for a minute or two--no longer--while I run in to get something. When I've gotten back, he's still sitting calmly.

sometimes when your dog has got the squits it's as hard work as bringing up baby, as in getting awaken every couple of hours and dealing with lots of messy stuff. Only changing nappies is a hell of a lot easier than scooping up diarrhoea. Although a few times if there is no-one about I've carried on walking and say to myself in a Wenger accent: I did not get a clear view of zis incident so I cannot possibly comment on it!

god, those first few months

Months? Months? I've been thinking in terms of two-three weeks...profoundly off the mark, I take it.

It varies. Lucinda, my oldest lab, got comfortable with our schedule within a matter of weeks, in terms of sleeping when we did and things like that. Molly, who we got five years later, would regularly refuse to sleep through the night for maybe up to a month. I should note, perhaps encouragingly, that we were operating with a far more flexible work/life schedule when we got Lucinda, whereas with Molly we were both at work or school for long periods of time and thus had less time to spend on training and socializing. Given that, I'm assuming, your current situation affords you a lot of time to spend with Fredo, you might have an easier time with getting him adjusted.

This may not be an option at the moment, but have you considered signing up for puppy training at Petsmart or one of those places? It really helped with us in terms of housetraining, getting them to behave (somewhat) on walks, etc. It also helps them become more comfortable around other dogs.

I'm already enrolled for a session on July 10. One disadvantage I think I have that you and KM didn't is that I'm on my own. It really does become kind of an extended Whatever Happened to Baby Jane mind game...I'm over-dramatizing. Zillions of people have done this; anyone with any knowledge would look at my first day and say I had it pretty easy. The problem is me--I'm the one with the daunting adjustment.

xp ok maybe more like 2 months? maybe even 7 weeks or so...I'm not sure, i lost my mind somewhere back in those piled up puppy pads. so much of it was just dealing with her fear issues around the time - she was a shelter pup and pretty much any noise at all would scare the crap out of her, and we lived brooklyn, so.

My dogs both really only fully emerged from the naughtiness of puppyhood--including erratic sleep schedules--around 3 years old. And we're still sometimes woken at 5:45 with a paw slap to the face

yeah, Birdie just turned 7 and she still can't figure out a bunch of stuff. i love her more than anything

Widget is now eight months old and finds new and innovative ways to destroy things. Today’s fun was digging up two massive, newly planted herb pots on my balcony. His specialty is gnawing the corner of a throw pillow cover just enough that it can’t be repaired. Woe betide you if you resort to spraying apple cider vinegar on an object as whiplet repellent - he advances, barking, because he hates it. He can now reach the countertops in the kitchen so everything has to be put away (no bad thing). Whippet puppies have a reputation for being dickheads until they’re two, which he definitely can be, but he has been easy to housetrain, loves riding the Tube and bus, is well-mannered with people and other dogs and his default setting is asleep right next to me.

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