Bailey and Friends

ADDY, I'm IN THE HILLS! OVER HERE! NO, NOT OVER THERE , OVER HERE!!!!
Mom, I think Bailey isn't eating because we told her she was getting a pony and you haven't ponied up (sorry, I couldn't resist:o)
It's okay, Bailey, ADDY & I will get you a pony if we can just get out of these dang hills! So, eat up, baby girl.
Hugs & smooches!!!!!!

Hey Susan,

Puppy's nutritional needs change so quickly as they grow that is it important to keep them on a good commercial feed for growth - ie. puppy food. ;) Royal Canin makes several breed formulas for those that are known to need stimulation from time to time - like Chihuahuas, Poms, Poodles and Schnauzers, to name a few. You might look into some feed like that for Bailey.

If you are using kibble, you can wet it which will give it a bit more aroma plus make it softer for her. If you are using a canned feed you might talk to your vet about getting a can or two of Mother's Milk, or whatever they call it these days, to add to the canned. This might make the feed more palatable to her. The canned breast milk can also be added to the kibble; it will have all the nutrients Bailey needs.

I strongly encourage you to avoid human foods right now. Her little system is still adjusting to digesting food other than her mom's milk and keeping it as consistent as possible is best for her. Also, by adding human foods now, you can be setting her up to be a finicky eater all her life - which is hard on moms and dads.

I know you are quite concerned about Bailey not eating well right now but try really hard to keep her feed consistent without adding human foods. The first year of a dogs life is nutritionally critical and commercial puppy feeds best meet their needs, giving them the best possible opportunity to develop normally. As far as we know, Bailey is healthy, with no problems that need to be addressed nutritionally and we want to keep her that way. After that first year you can start adding human foods as toppers unless you decide to cook for her. ;) So talk to the vet about other options, reserving chicken, etc. to entice her as the very last, least desirable, option.

Hugs,
Leslie

PS. I have to leave so I can go hunting but Addy and Carrol will keep you more than busy! :p

What hills?? Where are you guys?? There are no hills here just as there are no basements. It's sea level living. It's flat, mostly. It's very damp much of the time. Did the space ship get you guys???

Oh my....one source says this, another source says something else. :confused: The vet said it was okay to give people food so long as it was low fat. :confused: Bailey ate the most she's eaten ever last night....and I think it was too much. She was whimpering for awhile. She now weighs 2 lbs. and somewhere around 8 ounces. I don't remember exactly what the ounces were. I got the scale instruction book and nowhere does it tell you what the numbers after the period mean. The numbers before the period are the pounds. I finally decided that since one digit could only go from 0-9 it must be in tenths. Anyway-it's headed in the right direction.:)
I have hung her poochie bells at both places. She is a VERY quick learner so I expect her to be ringing bells by tonight (not really.);)
It has just turned sunny, and it's 60 degrees so I think I'll see if we can learn just a little about going for a walk.
Take Care.
Susan

Oh-Sas-I finally got it together enough to get that little treat in the cage with Bailey not knowing I did it. It worked wonderfully. The crying was just once or twice and I could hear her eating the biscuit before the crying began. I now have the cage door open and a treat in there (if it's still there).....and she has gone by and looked at least once. She has definitely learned how to chase a ball and bring it back....I could never get Palmer to bring it back to me. He always went "away" with it.

we hitched a ride north with that trucker to head to the hills. Carrol was getting squirrley living in that non basement and we were mightly worked up about being examined:eek::eek::eek:

Problem is its cold in them thar hills, we're eating spam and sharing an old tattered beige sweater with holes in it trying to keep warm.

maybe if we get a red sweater like Bailey, we could come home;);)

Leslie was right and that ole trucker still hadn't taken a bath but looks like he is heading south now so Carrol went to flag him down again. She looks pretty pathetic standing there with her thumb out, she really doesn't have the pose right and then we have that problem of Carroll breathing on the trucker:eek::eek:

FYI-I thought you should know that Carrol told Bailey to ask for a pony

Hugs,
Addy

OMG:eek::eek::eek::eek:
I practically put the recliner on Bailey. She is so fast and so hard to keep track of....and I heard this cry.....I had partially rocked a little forward......Bob ran and got her out and there appears to be no damage. It really upset me.:(:confused::(:(:(

We took Bailey to the hardware store today. She did well. :) She just stayed inside my hoodie.....she fits very nicely in there and I zip it up and that keeps her supported. Once we got back home, we both had some chores to tend to so, for the first time, she went into the cage during the day. I heard nothing out of her before I got outside. I was working down the street at the entrance to our community. Bob was assembling his new lawn mower and then he cut the grass. I kept looking down and never saw him....so I hoped he had given Bailey a break.When I got back and came inside.....I heard nothing. I said "Hello?" and heard nothing. I took two steps toward the bedroom and I heard an emphatic cry!! I got her out and got her outside quickly. It had been at least two hours and Bob had not come back inside. She was a bit upset, :(but she is fine now. We spent the next two or three hours snuggled up on the bed. Napping.....but not really.

She's with Bob now and I plan to go back down shortly.

Did I tell youse guys that there is going to be a puppy shower on Tuesday? :D I have friends who want to meet Bailey....I don't know how many are coming, but it's a bring your own lunch, we'll have drinks and a cake, and , if you want, bring a little something for Bailey. Kinda cool. :) It's a group of women who have kind of kept up with the happenings since the day I picked her out.

Weight went from 2.2 to 2.8 pounds. That's just over 2 1/2 pounds. That was yesterday. Bob thinks she looks bigger. All I know is that I can really feel her ribs.

Bailey told me about the pony. She asked that I wait a few months.....so she won't get squish(ed) again.:(:(

The trucker called me and told me Carrol was buggin' him and asked me to please see that someone came to pick her up. ;) His girlfrien' is real upset. There's only room for two on that thar truck. :eek: We all know how Carrol is about sharing space!!;)

Did I tell you Bailey got car sick four times on the way home?:(:(:( Three times on day 1, one time on day 2 and none on the last day. Did I tell you she peed on me in the car?:( Just once and it was very little pee.

We're working on the bell thing for asking to get outside. Bob thinks that's a bunch a balooey also. He didn't want the bells hung up where guests could see. GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!

Take care, all.

Love,
Susan

Happy Monday Susan!!!!!

How is Little Miss Bailey this morning? I love the idea of a puppy shower, how cute is that? You can play pass the puppy to help continue socializing Bailey. WHAT FUN:D:D:D


I hope you get the food thing sorted out. She does not like the food the breeder was feeding? I was just reading about how few taste buds dogs have compared to humans but they can taste salty, sweet and bitter. The article said their taste buds work with their sense of smell more so than ours. No wonder the smellier the better:p

My two are fruitaholics. Poor Zoe can't eat much fruit anymore with her colitis but Koko gets blueberries for a treat. He will stand next to the frig for an hour waiting for his blueberry and any time someone is eating fruit he comes RUNNING!!!!!!:rolleyes::rolleyes:

Hey, how does Bailey like her ducky?

Have a wonderful puppy filled Monday. It has been storming here for 2 days and our yard is totally flooded:eek: Hope the sun is out at your house. Of course with Bailey home, the sun would always be out;)

Love,
Addy

Happy Monday to you as well, Carrol! Little Miss Bailey is fine today-as she always is. I don't think we need to pass the puppy to get Bailey socialized. She has had so many "callers"....I think, I KNOW, she has more friends than I do!! :p She loves company. The neighbor across the street (who is going back to Canada until October, later this week) picks up her two grandchildren from school and Mondays and keeps them until their parent(s) pick them up. I took Bailey over there today, while the kids were there, and you've never seen 3 lives be more lively! Bailey really loves kids. Palmer was that way too. I guess they're so used to seeing people who seem to be so tall that once they are in the company of someone closer to their size, they love it!! :D

Did I tell you Bailey is climbing to sit on my head as Palmer did? I just know Palmer had a hand in Bailey coming here. :D:D:):)

The food thing is a little less pressing. Bailey weighed in at 3.2 lbs today. :) Hooray! I can even feel some extra around her ribs. :D Whew! I was really worried there for a day or two. I forget about the fruit/veggie thing. That would be good for me, as well. Other than juice, I don't get around to eating much fruit. I love it, I just don't think about it.:confused:

Bailey had her first bath tonight. She stank!....and with the puppy shower being tomorrow, I wanted her to smell lovely. She is not keen on being brushed or combed out. I find if I lift her up in the air with one hand, I can comb her with the other. That works pretty well. I still need to figure out a way to get her head combed. Needless to say, I probably won't be able to lift her with just one hand forever, but it sure is handy now.

You know, I don't know where that ducky got to. I'll have to check on that. She did seem to enjoy it. I think it's really meant to be a kids toy....although it squeaks. If she starts to tear it apart, we'll have to get it away from her. She hasn't torn anything apart yet.

By the way.....if the puppy pees inside, do I just say "no!" firmly and get her outside? I've been praising her when she goes outside, but I don't think she really knows why. Twice this evening she peed inside. Both times I was right there and I interrupted her process.....but I realized I don't know how I am supposed to correct her.

And would you believe she is already stimulating herself on one of her toys??!! She has this toy that has two parts. Each of the parts is like a corkscrew and one has a dog head and the other has some different kind of head (maybe a lion?) Well, they corkscrew together....so you have one two headed stuffed toy. It's longer than Bailey and twice now I've seen her "humping" it. :eek:

My days have become really short.....I sure don't have the time I once did (not that long ago) to get other things done. This is really going to take some scheduling, of sorts.

I think I'll go check up on Leslie now. I hope there is good news from her.

Happy Tuesday!! I'll let you know all about the puppy shower.

HUGS!,
Susan

Susan, it must be lovely to watch the storms roll in from the ocean and hear the waves crashing. I have a love affair with the sea:D

I think Palmer indeed had a hand in bringing you Bailey and is right there showing her the ropes:D:D:D

When I first was considering getting a second dog, my friends and family said "why do you want so much work?" I said " I am all ready taking care of one, how much more work can another one be?"

LITTLE DID I KNOW!!:rolleyes::rolleyes:

So I can only imagine what your schedule must be like with a puppy!!!!

Can't wait to hear about the shower.

When I house trained Koko I just did a sharp ""aaaaaup" grabbed him and ran outside and then praised him all the while saying "peeepeees" or you could say "potty" as a chant that I think my neighbors thought I was nuts but he will go potty know when I say the word.

Happy Tuesday to you as well!!!!!!

Love,
Addy

Happy Tuesday, Addy! (Is it STILL Tuesday?)
The shower was a whirlwind. They descended like a swarm of bees. I'll post a picture of the cake later...it was really cute.:) Everybody wanted to get their hands, and did, on Bailey. Bailey loved it! :D She was in 7th heaven with all the "awwwwwwwwwwwwing" going on. :) I'm not sure....maybe there were 10 of us. 10 for sure....maybe one or two more. The gifts were very unusual. One is a tiny lunch box, like construction workers use, with pictures of doggies all over the outside. When you open it up it is filled with heart shaped treats. The giver told me it was for the car and that she did not ever want to hear that we went anywhere with Bailey and found ourselves without treats!:)

Another is this soft little square-which is folded up to a size of about 4" x 4". It has a cord and a mouse at the end of the cord. You open it up and it's a doggie laptop. It doesn't squeak or anything so I think it's mostly meant to be cute. We got a calves hoof, pull toys, chew bones, Greenies in the petite size, and this felt feeling thing that is supposed to floss her teeth as she works on it. I got two books.....I didn't know Bailey could read!

Two hours later, they all suddenly exited except for 3 of them. Other than the huge mess of toys and such, you'd never know anyone had been here. And Bailey has now crashed!

The cake is a marble cake and it is scrumptious. Feel free to stop by and have a piece before it's all gone.

And yes, Addy-it's wonderful being able to hear the ocean. :):) If things are "just right" when you're outside at night, you can hear the waves crashing on the shore. Plus-not as much now because we've had a population explosion of sorts-but at night, on a clear night, there were never any "city lights" to hit the sky. As a result, it was the blackest sky I've ever seen and a ton more stars are visible than I ever would have imagined. Some city lights seem to be moving this way now. :( We love when Labor Day comes because most of the tourists go home. ;) We hate when Memorial Day comes because traffic backs up and the sirens go off with regularity. :mad: On the weekends we don't even take the car out because traffic is so bad. It's one mile to the ocean, so it is walkable....even with bothersome feet and knees. And there (now) are restaurants nearby and two quickie stores.
When we first started coming down here, if you wanted something to eat after 4 pm (which was when McDonald's closed) you had to go either 8 or 9 miles north or 8 or 9 miles or better south. Now some restaurants stay open year round.

I think I need a nap!:)

love,
susan