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my girls over the years – needless to say, I could have taken a really great vacation or several really good vacations with what I’ve paid for in poochie medical care – but when they look up at you with those big brown doggie eyes and you know they aren’t feeling up to their normal poochie self, well, I know I’d rather have those eyes looking at me healthy and happy as opposed to a vacation or anything else. Who knew a little fluff ball could cost so much?
Took Rascal for his follow-up today and he’s so much better. Walking straighter on even ground but still stumbles when he walks in the yard but that could be puppy clumsiness since the grass or should I say straw and weeds are long and the ground’s uneven. When he runs, watch out, he comes barreling toward you so fast then he hops like a rabbit.
is 9 weeks old, also part Chihuahua, and she does that too. She also shakes which I think is an inherent trait in Chichuahuas. She starts running (or I should say hopping) through the grass and will just fall over and go rolling. I hope everything comes out fine for Rascal. Just looking at his picture I want to pick him up and hug him. He is so sweet I’m going to need a shot of insulin!
He’s not so sweet when he wakes up at 3am and wants to eat NOW. He starts with a little whimper and if ignored it gets louder and louder you can hear him across the house. Usually I can put him on a towel in bed with me and he’ll quiet down until around 5am but not this morning. The papers I got after his shots said he may be lethergic and after dinner he crashed only waking to whimper a bit and when I’d pick him up he’d snuggle and go back to sleep. I knew I’d be in trouble. At 3 I woke up and looked at the clock and no noise from his crate. I laid there thinkint he’s slept an awfully long time, maybe he had a reaction and died. I never remeber Buddy being like this after his shots BUT the breeder had given him his first set before I got him. At 3:45 Rascal woke and was so hungry I couln’t do anything to stop him from trying to eat my fingers. His little head was butting and searching for something and he wasn’t stopping. After 20 minutes of fighting with him to quiet down I ended up feeding him. After he ate he laid down and went back to sleep. Problem was, I was now wide awake. After Don got up I did go back to bed for a couple of hours though.
Especially when they are puppies, they need to eat often because their little tummys can hold much. I’ve always found it easiest (for both of us) to leave food out all the time so they can eat whenever they want. Of course that makes it harder to potty train them because you’re supposed to take them out immediately after they eat.
We do have food out for our other dogs and they graze all day. Rascal will eat all his food then head for their dish and I have to stop him. I have found a treat shuts him up for a bit when he’s going nuts and I need some quiet like this morning when I was trying to eat breakfast and Don was out cutting the back grass. Last cut of the year but now it’s easier for the little guy to get around.
After I ate and Don finished the yard I took all 3 outside and they were hilarious. As soon as I brought them in Rascal crashed so they really give him a good workout. Now if we could get them to do that around 10pm he might sleep until 5.
and keeping you up! Reminds me of little babies. BonBon had a really good suggestion. Here’ another to try, have you tried feeding him a little just before you get ready to turn in (that way you have time to take him potty once more – you know what they say about dogs, doggie food in/doggie food out). Maybe he will sleep until five then? Then gradually, as he gets older, changing the time of the last bite earlier and earlier until he’s caught back up to your other dogs normal feeding time? Might be worth a chance.
He did sleep a little longer today. 4am. I realize now he’s not whining and active in the morning because he’s hungry, he has to go potty. I was going to take him out and feed him but stopped in the bathroom first. Put him on the floor and first thing he did was have a bm. He didn’t want to go in his crate. He’ll pee in there but nothing else and that was the last 2 mornings. Now I just have to get him to not do it in the house period. But a week isn’t that long a time with a guy who’s only 9 weeks old.
Earlier he was outside playing with Ellie and taking the bones from her stash she has behind the storage shed. He’d drag one out and she’d watch then when he’d drop it she’d grab it and take it back to her hiding place and he’d come out with another one. When I felt it was time to come in Ellie came no problem, but she usually does when I open the door. Rascal had other things on his mind and he tried to run away from me. Even though he’s not fast he’s still faster than old arthritic legs can move and when I yelled his name Ellie ran and knocked him down and held him with her nose. I got there and before I could pick him up he took off again. When I yelled his name Ellie ran and knocked him down again and held him with her paw. Again he rat off before I could pick him up. The last time Ellie knocked him down I was able to pick him up and we were able to go inside. Ellie’s now my little Nanny Dog.
It’s amazing how dogs know what we’re thinking. My brother had a German Shepherd that he had in the Army and when he was discharged, so was the dog. One day my little neice (3-yo at the time) was trying to climb over the picket fence and got her dress caught on a picket as she fell over onto the other side. She was hanging there upside down and the dog jumped over the fence (4′ high) and jumped up with his paws on either side of her, holding her there, and started barking until my SIL came out and got her. Pretty smart.
The lady next door with Princess had her vet tell her to put some treats in the crate at night because those little dogs can’t eat enough to keep them full all night long. Maybe if he has something to chew on to ease the growling tummy, he’ll make it thought the night better. Worth a try.
I realized this morning it’s not food he wants but he has to have a bm. He got me up at 4 and ate the treats but still wouldn’t settle down. I finally decided I couldn’t wait and got up but had to hit the bathroom first. I put him down and as soon as I did he relieved himself then calmed down. He went back to sleep and didn’t eat until 6am.
So, now he’ll still urinate in the crate but nothing else. If only I could get him to wait a bit longer on that also. I just took him out (10pm) but he did nothing. He was really sniffing but then Don let the other dogs out and it was play time. The other dogs did their business but not Rascal. All he did was run, jump and bark.
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