What is all this white stuff?

Meet the new Wisconsin snow removal team.  All I have to do is open the door, they go outside, heads down, and snow removal begins.  I try to tell them it will only come back but that doesn't deter them.  Diamond is more determined than Grimsby.  She won't stop eating snow until I literally go and pick her up and bring her in.  Even then, if there is snow on my boots she starts to clean them up too.  What a pair!

Septebmer 15, 2013 Never A Dull Moment

After coming home from grocery shopping, I decided to go to the garden and pick any tomatoes that were ripening.  Some of them are so big that they get too heavy for the vines and fall off and then before you get them, they start to rot.  Because they weren't entirely ripe, I set them on my dinette window sill in the sun. 

Mysteriously, these tomatoes started to disappear from the window sill and appear in other spots in the house, like the living room, bathroom, sunroom.   Hmmm.  Decided to see if I could figure out who was doing this - didn't take too long.  Just had to look for a few clues.



Some dogs, like Diamond, could

look me straight in the eye.  Whereas

other dogs, like Grimsby, had a little

trouble with that.  In fact, he actually

looked a little guilty. 

The tomatoes weren't eaten, just had a lot of

holes from teeth in them, so couldn't tell - no tomatoe breath!

Mystery solved.  Tomatoe seeds somehow

showed up in the white hair on Grimsby's chin.  

August 24, 2013

Well, I guess six weeks is the magic number.  Things have really changed in the last week.  Grimsby is getting to be a great walking partner. he would walk all day if he could.  I think using a harness with him has been a major help.

  Of course he has to have some time to stop and search for bugs.  What a character.  But he does hunt them down and eats them if he gets to them fast enough.  Jumps up to catch moths and butterflies but so far hasn't had any luck with that.  He is still trying though.  Grimsby loves his toys and plays with them all of the time.  If I pick them up to clean, I turn around and they are back out.  Doesn't want anything moved.

Now to Diamond.  Diamond is also getting better with walking, but can still be a bit of a challenge when she wants to be.  Each day she wakes up, everything is a new and exciting adventure for her.  She can't wait to get started.  Follows me everywhere until Foster Dad walks in and then she only has eyes for him.  She loves to play, play, play. When she is out in the fenced yard, she stands up at the fence on her hind legs, hanging onto the fence to see better.  Cracks me up.  She looks like a little bear.  A doe and her fawn came close to the yard and Diamond got so excitied.  She stood up and made the strangest noise - sounded like she was screaming, but under her breath.

Wonder what these little southern babies are going to be like when Wisconsin winter rolls around.  Should be fun and interesting.

Both dogs have changed so much, starting to trust and relax, which is great to see.  Realizing they are safe and secure and getting fed every day doesn't hurt either.  Two great little dogs who seem to appreciate everything you do for them.

 Reminds me of a saying I heard once "Lord, help me be half the person this dog thinks I am".

You gotta love em!!!

  

Things are progressing nicely. Both dogs have gotten used to each other and into their routine. Diamond continues to entertain us with her tricks and antics (I have heard that is the poodle in her). She is such a nice little dog - knows all of her basic commands. Sit, stay, go in the house, outside, but has a little bit of a challenge when calling her. She has, however, put her paw down with sleeping in her crate at night. It's only fair. Grimsby has never liked his crate and even being in a room with Diamond in her crate with him loose, was not happy. He would run and hide at bedtime, so decided to see if he could be a good boy by himself. He has come a long way with his potty training, but was still worried about leaving him out. He was a wonderful boy! Came into our bedroom and slept on a small couch we have in there. No accidents. No problems at all. Now he has transferred to being my foot warmer.

 Well, Diamond put up with this for a couple of weeks and then one night caused such a racked in her crate I rushed out to see if she was ok. Oh she was ok alright, just protesting the equal rights thing. She won and has been wonderful in our room ever since. She has never had an accident in the house.

Grimsby and Diamond

They arrived in a whirlwind on July 6th.  Wow.  Who knew it would be so much fun.  We picked up Grimsby and Diamond Saturday evening and went straight home.  They were so excited to be here too.  Settled in nicely for the night.  The first week was a bit of a circus.

Took them to be spayed and neutered on Friday, July 12th.  All went well and home for recuperation.  Aaaaah, things are so much calmer now that they are fixed.  No more guarding Diamond  24/7:)

Grimsby was a stray and still has some of his street ways, like eating dirt, seeing a puddle and heading over for a quick drink, but has come leaps and bounds with housebreaking and is a real sweetheart.  Love those big brown eyes.  Still working on the leash business, but getting better every day.

If there were ten dogs in the house, Diamond would have to be number one. Diamond is a real live Diva. She is definitely the Alpha dog.  A little black tornado tearing around the house and in the next breath sitting calmly on your lap being a little love.  But she isn't comfortable with crowds and a lot of people around.  This little doll is completely housebroken.  Has never had an accident.  Tries so hard to please.  She needs a quiet and loving, understanding forever home.