Buffy's Famous!

I had my iGoogle page up and something caught my eye when I looked at my Daily Puppy box. I thought, boy that puppy looks really familiar... Wait! That's Buffy! Hooray! Buffy is the Daily Puppy today! Check it out!

Almost Famous

Buffy is anyways. I finally submitted her to be the daily puppy yesterday but in the mean time one of the site's admins asked for the sleepy photo of Buffy to be put into their January photo contest and I said "go team!" Check it out if not just for Buffy's picture but to see all the cute sleepy pups. I squeal with glee anytime I'm faced with such cuteness!

Again...

I am participating in 365 Days on Flickr. I failed out last time but for Christmas Bryan got me a new fancy camera so my desire to try again is ignited, wish me luck! I'm five days in and so far so good. The new camera is a lot of fun so I hope that keeps me going.

I have also signed up with Courtney & Heather to do the Salt Lake City 5K in April. All there is to do now is get in shape...it's gonna be hell. It'll be good for me though I've gotten way to fat and lazy as of late. I hope to go on my running adventures with Tibor because I know he'll love it but it may be detrimental to my health. I hope he plays nice. That dog can pull your arm out of your socket if he really wants to.

I'll think about bringing Buffy too when her poor little paw heals because I don't want to risk making it worse. She wouldn't be able to keep up right now anyways. Her run is a Tibor walk so it'll end up being quite a work out for her. I'll get her going when she gets a bit older. Again, wish me luck! I'll need it for both of my endeavors!

Bad Mommy!

I am the worst mommy ever. It happened yesterday… I was trying to get the puppy to go outside for potty time and at the same time trying to get Tibor inside so he wouldn’t harass her while she was trying to do her business because Tibor likes to run full speed at her when they’re outside and that inevitably scares her and she wants to run back inside and this really puts a damper on the potty training success.

I finally got Tibor to go inside and got Buffy outside and I was slamming close the sliding door in triumph when I heard the most horrible puppy cry ever! Apparently while in the midst of my triumphant door slamming Buffy had sped her way back to going inside and before I even had a chance to blink I had slammed her poor little paw in the door. I felt sooooo bad!!! I just hated myself for hurting her and she’s still limping around. I don’t think anything’s broken because she’ll let me touch her leg and paw without making a fuss but she just won’t full-on walk on her smashed leg. Poor puppy!

Needless to say she got even more spoiled than usual yesterday because I felt so bad. I carried her around everywhere and she got lots of treats and she got to sleep in the bed with me last night. I’m such a bad mommy! Slamming my baby’s paw in the door, so sad! Luckily we had already made a vet appointment tomorrow for her shots so I can have Dr. Pam check out her poor little puppy paw and hopefully they won’t take our babies away because of puppy abuse.

Puppies First Christmas

I love this video. Buffy totally ninja's an ornament off the tree. Tibor did get a little jealous that I was recording Buffy and not him.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Well, since it's Thanksgiving I guess I should give my thanks. So here's it is, what I'm thankful for in no particular order:

• For my wonderful, understanding, loving husband Bryan that I couldn't see myself without. I love him so much and I am so very lucky to be able to share the rest of my life with him.
  
  
• For my family that I'm so lucky to have and am so lucky that they live so near to me and I can be as close as I am with them.
  
  
• For my doggies Tibor & Buffy that couldn't live without me and I'm pretty sure I couldn't live without them.
  
  
• For my job, I know I complain about it sometimes but I'm lucky to have it and am grateful for all the nice people I work with.
  
  
• That I finally have a college degree, not everyone can say they have one. Go me!
  
  
• For my health, I know I need to lose a few 50 lbs. or so but it could be a lot worse.
  
  
• For my new home that I love and feel so safe and happy in, I'm excited to build my new life here with my husband and our doggie babies.
  
  
• For my friends that I've had since my teen years and earlier. I love them all dearly and they are indeed the family that I have chosen.
  

I'm pretty sure I've left a bunch out but that's a good start. So if I'm ever feeling down just remind me to look here and see how wonderful my life really is.

Happy Thanksgiving all! I hope you all had a great holiday!

To Rott or not to Rott?

I took Buffy to her first vet appointment yesterday and learned something very interesting. The vet asked what breed Buffy was and I told her she was a Rottweiler/German Shepherd mix according to the Humane Society and you know what she had to say to that? "I don't think so." She says if this puppy really is two months old she's way too small to be a Rottweiler and her paws aren't big enough. In any case she guessed that Buffy is most likely a Shiba Inu mix. The vet thinks Buffy is a Shiba Inu because of her curly tail and because she screams. I've blogged about how loud she can whine to the point where it sounds like she's screaming. Apparently this is a big Shiba Inu trait, who knew? The vet said she's definitely a mix because her tail isn't fluffy like a Shiba Inu's is and her ears don't stand up. She wasn't sure what else Buffy's mixed with and said they could make a better guess when she grows up a little so who knows what kind of pup we actually have. It'll be really interesting to see how she turns out. Don't worry, we love her no matter what! She's just now our cute little Shiba Inu mix instead of our cute little Rottweiler/German Shepherd mix.

On another puppy note, Buffy had her first bath yesterday. I recorded some of it and you can hear some of her whining but it didn't really get to screaming volume. She can get way worse than she gets in the video.

Having dogs is fun!

Buffy's been doing better with the potty training. We've now progressed to the point where we actually had one accident free day. She also knows where the door to outside is and we can open it and she'll go right out without us having to go with her. This is sometimes good and sometimes bad. It's good because we don't have to go out with her if it's freezing cold. Tibor will go out with her and I think that's good enough for her. What can be bad about this situation is that sometimes she chooses not to do her business on the grass. Sometimes she elects to take care of business on the sidewalk or as in yesterday's case on a pile of leafs on the concrete. In theory this doesn't seem like a bad thing. Well...let me tell you, it was not a good situation. I'm not exactly sure how this happened but here's my theory, I think she somehow stepped on her poop after she released it and it got stuck to some leaves and she managed to drag a couple of the poop leafs in the house as well as smear some poop strait onto the floor.

To make this even better Bryan somehow managed to step in said poop as well. It was so awful. Our hole kitchen smelled like poop and I had to scour the floor for any poop and clean it up and clean it up off Bryan's feet and I thought we were done and we were sitting with the dogs in our bedroom when I got the distinct stench of poopies. Little did we know Tibor had actually stepped in poo too. So we had to do some emergency puppy paw washings. Tibor so did not like being in the tub, he totally slipped and ate it and I feel bad that I laughed but it was so funny! Then we had to wash Buffy's paws off and she did her squeal the whole time which was also funny.

Lucky for Buffy she has her first vet appointment today and it's been ten days since we got her so she gets a real bath time tonight! Oh man is she gonna love that! Dogs are fun!

Considering Diapers.

Thus far Buffy is proving to be very difficult to potty train. She gets that when you go outside you go potty and she'll do all her business outside and doesn't seem to have any problem with it but she still has about three or four accidents a day. If you don't take her out ASAP after she's been sleeping or eating she will just squat her little butt down and pee where ever she pleases. It's so frustrating! She knows to potty outside but she just can't understand that going potty inside is so not cool. It hasn't even been a week so I need to be a bit more patient but we were just so spoiled with Tibor. He was unbelievably easy to potty train, why can't he just teach her the ropes?

As you know we're been letting Buffy sleep in bed with us because I'd rather get some sleep than listen to her scream bloody murder all night long. Well last night she rocketed herself off the bed just to pee on the floor. I was so not happy about this. I was so tired because I had gotten to bed later than I usually do and I was in that half asleep stupor so I panicked and woke up Bryan because I wasn't sure what to do. If you've seen my bed you know that thing's pretty dang high. I almost need a step ladder to get into bed so I can't believe she jumped off without killing herself. Tibor can't even get on the bed, not that we allow that but still.

Ahh, puppies are fun, yes? Don't get me wrong, no regrets on the adoption but potty training is the worst thing about puppies, after that it's all good so I really hope she catches on soon or I really will consider putting diapers on her. I do just love and adore her though, she's just so sweet and loves to be held, now I miss my puppy, sigh...

Probably not a good idea.

You wouldn't think to look at her but Buffy can make some noise! I never realized how easy a puppy Tibor was until we got Buffy. Tibor was so easy to crate train, he barely made a peep, not so much for Buffy. She puts up a racket that you wouldn't believe. It sounds like someone's in the crate with her pulling her claws out with tweezers. It actually sounds like she's screaming. We tried putting her in her crate Sunday night but after that wailing went on for about five minutes and we just couldn't take it anymore. We couldn't even hear the TV at full volume, that's how loud she was. Putting her in a box by our bed worked out a little better than the crate but she still would start whining every hour or two and last night she actually knocked over the box and escaped and Bryan and I were just so tired that we gave in and just let her sleep in the bed with us. She slept most of the night the little brat. She woke up once at 4:30am and started biting me and I had to take her out but that was the only time. She sure knows how to play us doesn't she? Poor Tibor never gets to lay in bed with us because he's so good, it just doesn't seem fair. She's definitely more of a handful than Tibor was but we still love her and Tibor's been surprisingly good with her. This morning she was climbing all over him, biting his tail, paws and face and he just let her do it. It was so cute! I can tell he's trying really hard to hold back too, it's like he really wants to play but he knows he has to be gentile with her. Sometimes he forgets and tries to pounce at her and scares the crap out of her and she does one of her screams, which is pretty hilarious but he's not hostile, just playful. I'm sure it won't be long before they can play like he wants to. We just need to figure out how to crate train her! Our dog walker Robyn says she can hear Buffy crying when she pulls up outside, so I shudder to think that these crying fits go on all day, poor Tibor's the one that has to put up with it the most. He's such a good boy!

Tibor used to be that little.

The picture on the left is Tibor the first day we got him and the picture on the right is Buffy the second day after we got her. I tried to do the same pose so you could see their difference in size but I was a little off. You can still judge their sizes by looking at the metal back on the cart. Tibor's sitting down and his head is above it and Buffy is standing and her head doesn't reach the top. Below is a picture of Tibor and Buffy together as of now. I'm going to take a picture every week with them together like this to see how much she grows. We tried to get her to sit but she wasn't having it.

Meet Buffy Hadzik.

Yep, we did it. We got puppy number two! We got her from the Humane Society yesterday and she is a Rottweiler/German Shepherd mix and we're all already totally in love with her. The Human Society wasn't certain about her mix but there's no doubt she's got Rottweiler in her, the German Shepherd part was the guess due to her coloring. They also guessed her age to be about two months old, which is crazy because she's half the size Tibor was at two months old so I think Tibor may have been older than they thought he was.

Tibor's not quite sure what to think about her yet but I think as soon as she's big enough to play then he will love her as much as Bryan and I do. I hope they will be the best of friends!