Lila is such a dork.
This morning, we went through the standard routine - get out of the cage, go outside to use the bathroom, and then come back in for breakfast.
When I sat her bowl of food down on the floor, she didn't start eating. This concerned me at first because whenever she's been feeling icky, she's not as enthusiatic towards her food.
Instead, Lila looked at her food. Then she looked at me. Then she looked back at her food, and then looked back up to me.
Confused, I talk to her. "Go on, honey, eat your food."
Lila looks back at her food, then to me one last time. She looks back to her food for a few seconds, picks up one of her front paws, and hovers it in the air for a second...
And she brings it down on her food bowl, spraying a handful of kibbles over the kitchen floor. She looked back at me, and I could swear she was laughing.
And she then proceeded to eat her food off the floor.
Oh, what a clown.
-Kaylyn
Monday, March 29, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Spring!
Spring is here!
The sun is shining, the temperatures are rising, the birds are singing, the grass is green, and the plants and trees are coming back to life!
I love spring - love it, love it, love it. I've started walking Lila now that its getting nice outside. The first few walks, we didn't go more than a block or so since she didn't know how to walk on a leash. Once she learned, though, those walks exploded into a range from a little over to a little under a mile each time we walk.
We took one such walk yesterday, and I taped it. It's mainly me rambling, but you get a lot of video of Lila.
And, so you all can see how much she's grown... Remember the photo I took of her the day after we got her - the one next to the Pilot Dogs bag? I took another one of that, since she's reached three months of age and has been with us for a little over a month now.
We also had a nice little "breakthrough" last night too. It wasn't a breakthrough per say, but it is evidence of her growing up some more. Normally, she'll go into her cage, yap once or twice then go to sleep when we put her up at night. About three to four hours later, she'll start barking again to be let out to go to the bathroom. And the timing works out so that she is pretty much always barking at 5 AM to be let out.
Last night, I stayed up rather late, and never heard her bark once after she quieted down for the night. When I got up this morning, my parents told me she didn't bark at 5 AM. She slept through her normal wake up time right until 7 AM! Oh, how I love her growing up. It makes a full night of sleep much easier to get. haha
-Kaylyn
Monday, March 15, 2010
First Month Reflections
Oh my, it's been a bit since I've had a new post.
Saturday marked our first full month with Lila. When we got her, she was almost two months old, and weighed about three and a half pounds. Her fur was soft, and her tail was nothing more than a stub. She couldn't hold her bladder more than an hour or so, and didn't know how to walk on a leash.
The progress she's had in just a month is amazing. She now weighs almost eleven pounds (she had a bacteria buildup and a parasite, which I will focus on later), and her hair is becoming more wiry and her tail is growing longer. She can now go about three to four hours without having to go outside, and is walking very nicely on a leash now. She now settles down into her kennel almost immediately. Some days there is crying, others there is none at all. She's not making it entirely through the night yet. Accidents are becoming less and less in the house.
However, despite the progress, we've had a small down side. My father bought her food while he was out one day. It was from the same food company, but the kibbles were different. He told me the food was the same, and I never checked to see if he was right. Because of that, we had to switch her food rather suddenly, which caused a bacteria build up in her intestines. After a few days, she wasn't getting any better, so we took her to the vet. They also found a parasite, which was probably why she was a tad skinny. She's now on medication for both, which is almost out now.
As far as socialization goes, we've been walking around the neighborhood a little bit more now that the weather is warming up. She's met several dogs and some of our friends and acquaintances in the neighborhood. And the distance of our walks is increasing quite a bit too. She's been to a couple horse barns around town - Twin Oaks Farm and the Louisville Equestrian Center, and has been to the houses of some of our family members.
I've not been focusing on teaching her commands just yet. She knows sit, come, off, and drop, but those were taught through everyday things (every time she would sit on her own, I'd say "sit"), and that's how I'll be "teaching" commands until her attention span increases some.
I'm starting to doubt that I will ever be disappointed by how Lila progresses. She learns so quickly and preforms her known commands very well for a two month old puppy, so I can only imagine how she'll be when she "grows up" some.
-Kaylyn
Saturday marked our first full month with Lila. When we got her, she was almost two months old, and weighed about three and a half pounds. Her fur was soft, and her tail was nothing more than a stub. She couldn't hold her bladder more than an hour or so, and didn't know how to walk on a leash.
The progress she's had in just a month is amazing. She now weighs almost eleven pounds (she had a bacteria buildup and a parasite, which I will focus on later), and her hair is becoming more wiry and her tail is growing longer. She can now go about three to four hours without having to go outside, and is walking very nicely on a leash now. She now settles down into her kennel almost immediately. Some days there is crying, others there is none at all. She's not making it entirely through the night yet. Accidents are becoming less and less in the house.
However, despite the progress, we've had a small down side. My father bought her food while he was out one day. It was from the same food company, but the kibbles were different. He told me the food was the same, and I never checked to see if he was right. Because of that, we had to switch her food rather suddenly, which caused a bacteria build up in her intestines. After a few days, she wasn't getting any better, so we took her to the vet. They also found a parasite, which was probably why she was a tad skinny. She's now on medication for both, which is almost out now.
As far as socialization goes, we've been walking around the neighborhood a little bit more now that the weather is warming up. She's met several dogs and some of our friends and acquaintances in the neighborhood. And the distance of our walks is increasing quite a bit too. She's been to a couple horse barns around town - Twin Oaks Farm and the Louisville Equestrian Center, and has been to the houses of some of our family members.
I've not been focusing on teaching her commands just yet. She knows sit, come, off, and drop, but those were taught through everyday things (every time she would sit on her own, I'd say "sit"), and that's how I'll be "teaching" commands until her attention span increases some.
I'm starting to doubt that I will ever be disappointed by how Lila progresses. She learns so quickly and preforms her known commands very well for a two month old puppy, so I can only imagine how she'll be when she "grows up" some.
-Kaylyn
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