Feb 18, 2013 | Hope's Journey
In addition to spending more time downstairs with her sisters, today Hope got a rather lengthy play session with her parents, both lending help in teaching her proper play etiquette as well as cleaning up her messes. Hope had such a great time exploring our living...
Feb 16, 2013 | Hope's Journey
Just look at her! She is so beautiful – and a pistol to boot! This precious face now greets me every morning, tail wagging, an adorable bark, followed by several kisses. We have rearranged the whelping box to accommodate a small, washable pee-pad. Now that she...
Feb 15, 2013 | Hope's Journey
I have mentioned how Hope greets me with a bark but now she greets me as the edge of the whelping box with a bark and beg. Between her kibble/mush meals, I am still doing formula feedings. Hope walks to the edge and crawls up to the syringe tip and sucks away! She...
Feb 12, 2013 | Hope's Journey
Today, Hope got her first taste of kibble. I took some Bil-Jac Select kibble (my all time favorite puppy food) and soaked it in the homemade puppy formula. The Bill-Jac easy crumbles and soaks up liquids superbly. She gummed a kibble piece until it finally mushed up...
Feb 11, 2013 | Hope's Journey
Our little escape artist has become rather comfortable crawling out of the whelping box and roaming my bedroom. With that much square footage to explore, I thought it best to start giving her a smaller and more secure area to play – but with her half sisters,...
Feb 10, 2013 | Hope's Journey
When we get home that is. Suri and Hope slept in the kennel that I setup right beside the head of my bed this weekend, giving me a perfect vantage point to peek in on our now, very active little puppy. She wants to be out and play more than ever now and this morning I...
