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| Sally Porkchop home at last, Day 1 with her Daddy, even then she loved him the best |
We spent the weeks between our commitment of adopting Sally Porkchop until August 5th, 2012, her bring home date, reading Cesar and the Monk's books and buying every little thing a puppy might need (which was indeed an investment.)
Living in the Pacific Northwest it's rare that it ever gets above 75 degrees even in August. But of course August 2012 was like the warmest ever here. The day we brought Sally home it was 96 degrees or something ridiculously hot. Which of course is not good for bullies and since it's rarely that warm we don't have air conditioning.
So we spent her first 4 days home mostly just hanging out in the backyard seeking the shady spots and watching her. I am sure we had never even sat in the grass of our backyard prior to Sally.
She was such a sweet puppy. She just wanted to be close to us and she loved chewing on bully sticks ( a recommendation we read in Cesar's puppy book.) We started crate training right away and in retrospect it's probably the only consistent and best training tip we ever followed.
The first few nights were rough. She whined most of the night missing the cuddling warmth of her brothers I'm sure. We were up every 2 hours taking her out to potty. It was exhausting. But luckily it didn't last more than 4-5 days and she was soundly sleeping through the night in her crate.
Living in the Pacific Northwest it's rare that it ever gets above 75 degrees even in August. But of course August 2012 was like the warmest ever here. The day we brought Sally home it was 96 degrees or something ridiculously hot. Which of course is not good for bullies and since it's rarely that warm we don't have air conditioning.
So we spent her first 4 days home mostly just hanging out in the backyard seeking the shady spots and watching her. I am sure we had never even sat in the grass of our backyard prior to Sally.
She was such a sweet puppy. She just wanted to be close to us and she loved chewing on bully sticks ( a recommendation we read in Cesar's puppy book.) We started crate training right away and in retrospect it's probably the only consistent and best training tip we ever followed.
The first few nights were rough. She whined most of the night missing the cuddling warmth of her brothers I'm sure. We were up every 2 hours taking her out to potty. It was exhausting. But luckily it didn't last more than 4-5 days and she was soundly sleeping through the night in her crate.
