Meet Daisy our new puppy!
We have now had Daisy for 2 weeks. She is a first generation Maltipoo, her mom is a Poodle and her dad is a Maltese. She is 10 1/2 weeks old and weighs about 3lbs. A tiny little baby! But I wanted a tiny dog and my daughter wanted a puppy so that's what we got her for her 7th birthday!
Puppies are hard almost as hard as a new baby! They are playful and sometimes overdo it and you get bit. They don't aways sleep through the night, ours wakes up around 3am and wines till you take her out to pee. And they don't come crate trained or potty trained! Here is what the first week of potting looked like:
Black asterisk are indoor accidents. Some days we had a lot of accidents and others it was not so bad. She is going like 15 times a day since her bladder is so small and after a week of writing it down we figure we would try timing out when to take her out so hopefully we can get the number between potty breaks to increase. We have started with setting the timer to every 40 minutes when she is awake, of corse taking her outside every time she wakes up from a nap! Now that week 2 is done and we are still having 2 to maybe 5 accidents a week I am thinking we need to limit her play area. So I am now looking for a baby or pet gate pen thing on the cheap side so we can contain her in the kitchen area till she does better.
Daisy is also a chewer! Our 9 year old dog we got when she was 4 months old was not only potty and crate trained she only chewed one of my shoes, one of my hubby's shoes and a hard cover book! (at least that's all I remember, she was not a big chewer) Daisy is chewing everything!!!! Even rocks and the metal legs to our coffee table. Ewww! It is even worse the last couple of days since the younger two kids decided to encourage her to go up the stairs!!!! There are a ton of little things in their bedrooms! Daisy has pooped out two itty bitty toy pieces this week! Not Good! She is exhausting!
Speaking of exhausting...
It is hard for Daisy to take a nap over here since someone always has to pick her up or start to play with her right after she falls asleep. There are 5 of us and we all want a piece of her cuteness!!! We try to keep her up till 10 or 11pm but she ends up passed out before than, wakes up at 3'ish in the wee morning and then is up anywhere from 6 to 7am, oh boy! Here I thought I would be able to sleep in this summer! What was I thinking... a puppy... I'm crazy... I need sleep! As luck would have it my hubby is often up at 3'ish in the morning and will take the pup out to potty and have her lay on his lap (if he is on the computer) or chest (if he is watching tv) till she falls back asleep than put her back in her crate. Yay!
I am also having a hard time keeping her white fur clean! She is so low to the ground and we take her out so often even when it is wet outside that she seems to collet dirt. Then there's the light brown tear lines from her eyes that drive me nuts! I was not necessarily looking for a white dog because I knew it would bother me but we ended up falling in love with her. Any suggestion on how to help would be awesome. Even though I want to bathe her every other day we are doing it once a week so we don't dry out her skin.
Last but least I want to let you know how Lily (our 9 year old puppy) is doing with Daisy (2 month old new puppy)...
Well not so well, not bad, just not the wonderful lovefest I thought it was going to be! Lily is ignoring Daisy, I think to show she is the dominant one. I still have hope that they will be the best of friends after all it has only been 2 weeks!
Well that is it for today! Thanks for stopping by!
~Love~Smile~Enjoy~Happiness~
~Ra~
