We picked up our puppy almost three weeks ago. A big shock to the system as it's 11 years since we last had a puppy in the household. A very sweet puppy he is, going well with his toilet training - we're still getting him up once during the night at the moment if he's fidgety, and if indoors he'll go and sit by the door to let us know he needs out. He loves his crate which is beside our bed, he has his friend Moosey in there and definitely isn't a morning boy :)
Our cat, who is a big meanie beanie, is really keen on having him as a friend and puppy loves the cat. Have told the cat he needs to assert his boss-ness now whilst puppy is still smaller than him and while a little reluctant to be mean to his new friend has given him a few baffs that seem to be getting the message across.
Puppy has his last injection next Thurdsay then a week after that he can go out into the big wide world. We've booked him already in to puppy play and doggy day care so he gets socialising and playing time.
He is very mouthy/chewy - he has to be chewing or mouthing something constantly unless he's asleep or running around, not sure how to get over that, is that just a puppy thing?
His trip home wasn't very nice for him, he had two massive upchucks (lucky he was in our cat cage which has very high sides and so caught all the bits and pieces, trying not to go for TMI here) and so we've been taking him for little drives in the car but now he's too big for the cat cage and DH has just phoned to say that the crate I ordered has arrived already so we'll get that sorted over the weekend.
At the risk of causing a few eye rolls, I never imagined how difficult it would be having a constant reminder of our dog who died last December. He was a huge part of our life, so many of our memories are based around him and we made a lot of decisions in our lives based on and because of him. I certainly don't begrudge him any of that, it was our choosing to make him as big a part of our world and we got so much back. I didn't cope very well at the beginning when puppy arrived and as much as I have already grown to love our new little man if anything happened to him I'd definitely not get another puppy and probably not another dog ever.