Yesterday, Isabella met my brother's yellow lab, Daisy and my parents' long-haired dachshund, Sophie. Both of them are 8-9 years old and already know each other. They both came over (at the same time!) to meet Isabella. Isabella did great! She and Daisy had a blast! It was so fun seeing her play with the "big dog". Daisy was really gentle and I think had great fun playing with a puppy. Sophie, on the other hand, wanted nothing to do with it! She wasn't socialized with other dogs as a pup and…

There are many signs I am getting to be a big girl my first month at Rose cottage. I am almost 3 months old today and Mum is letting me do stuff Lily gets to do more and more.

This week I got to sleep on the…

Dewi and I spent the morning at the vet after a 4 a.m. urgent potty call, followed by 6:30 a.m. straining and dry heaves. Thankfully, it wasn't an intestinal blockage (as I had feared). However, $242 and two hours of poking, prodding, testing, questioning and waiting later, we learned that Dewi is suffering from a case of acute colitis (which neither of us have ever dealt with before). The vet gave Dewi a shot of antibiotics and something to calm his digestive tract (which, thankfully, seems…

Guinness was looking the other way and suddenly looked back when he heard the focus beep...he's come a long way from when he was a puppy and he'd try to get his chompers around the lens to take my camera away from me!

I just had to share, I'm so excited! She's been kind of grumbly and really bitey lately and tonight when she was pitching a fit I noticed that she had a blank spot on her bottom jaw where a tiny little puppy tooth used to be.