Journal: Week nine...
Toddlers with twice as many legs.
This week the human beans learned how irrepressible and
hard to contain healthy active puppies are. We had to enlarge the
living room puppy pen last weekend. Then on Tuesday, the puppies, who were in Deborah's psychotherapy office, learned how to jump the fence and run
around the room - during therapy - whoops. We moved them to the
carefully constructed puppy room at the office only to learn that five
active puppies make a lot of heat and the two 8" x 16" vents were not
adequate. So, with some trepidation on the humans' part, the puppies now stay at home in the puppy palace for four hours on Tuesday and Thursday. (Well, to hear Deborah tell it, 3 hours and 40 minutes, door to door...) They seem to be enjoying that time more than their human parents are.
The puppies run, they jump, they climb over fences and walls and can reach up 36" when they stretch. (To the left is Nuala standing to check out her world.) The puppies like chasing the other dogs when they
escape from the puppy palace (which they can do when we are trying to go
in to clean up). It would not surprise us at all to learn that they are
taking flying lessons. Life has suddenly become very hectic. And, of
course, the puppy room we are building is a month behind schedule (which
is not bad when you consider the original construction estimate was one
month). The next few weeks should be interesting.
They are gaining weight rapidly now, each putting on 3 to 5 pounds a week.
