TheBanyanTree: Puppies and Puppies

[NancyIee at aol.com]

I already wrote that for my friend's birthday, I got her two Chihuahua 
puppies, and in return, she bought me a pug. So, in this household, there were three 
young puppies, needing "going out for potty" several times a day and night. 
We are also still working on housebreaking, with noted lack of success.  

The two Chihuahuas, Mollie and Toby, are three pounds and change apiece, very 
active and funny, and charge about the house like animated ping-pong balls on 
speed. Buster the Pug ir bigger, running pell-mell after the littler dogs, 
rolling them over, and then they all right themselves and race on again.

Come my friend's birthday.  A neighbor and friend, knowing we had recently 
lost our little Snickers, Papillon of some fifteen years; and knowing how badly 
we missed his lively antics, decided to . .yes . . you guessed it . .another 
puppy.

Jenny, as we named her, is eight weeks old, black and white, of unknown 
parentage, though her grandmother was an english bulldog. Jenny's father, as far as 
can be determined, had some Boston Terrier and a smidgen of Pitt Bull. How 
big Jenny will get is anyone's guess. Right now, at  this moment, she is about 
the size of the Chihuahuas, though in another week, she might be as big as the 
Pug.

Four puppies racing through the house, tons of dog food and more tons of dog 
poop to clean up. They whine at 3 A.M. and after they get put out for potty, 
they think it's time for breakfast and play, and they're screamingly irked at 
being put back to bed, and they stay screamingly irked for many eons.

Buster the Pug has the idea of housebreaking down pretty good, bless his 
little heart. He's a sturdy little fellow, rather like a very small Mack truck. 
The Chihuahuas are still ilike the Energizer Bunny 24/7, though I did catch them 
sleeping a few minutes yesterday afternoon in the sun on the screen porch. 
Jenny the newest likes my slippers, grabs them wherever she finds them, and 
races through the house. She thinks she and I are playing a grand game of tag, 
when all I want is my slippers back.

Never a dull moment.

NancyLee