roxy

Our newest Golden is finally here! Last night we were able to pick up Roxy to bring her home. What a sweetheart! Doing my best to soak up this cute puppy-ness while I can, since I know she'll change fast. She has been doing really well so far. We have her cage in the house just for the first while.  She cried (loudly) for the first 5-10 minutes at bedtime, but then did great!  Mike let her out for a potty break before he went to work around 3am (Poor guy, had a church meeting that went to almost midnight the other night, and he's not getting a chance to catch up.), she cried for a few minutes again when he put her away, but then she was fine until I got up to let her out.  I was mentally prepared for it to be worse, so I'm really pleased that she slept well!  The only bummer is that I did still have to get up in the night - Levi woke up screaming, I'm guessing he had a bad dream. :(

I'm not a "animals are practically people" type of person, but it just about broke my heart to hear Roxy's mom crying and howling last night when we picked her up.

It will be interesting to see how things play out with Pixie and Roxy.  Right now Pixie is just a tinier bit bigger than Roxy, and of course, she's been here longer, so she's acting like boss.  Wonder if she'll be able to keep that up once Roxy is bigger.  Things have been improving with Pixie and the kids, but if she doesn't do well with Roxy we'll just have to find a new home for her.  Sorry Pix, Roxy gets priority!

I've finished up with the garden, and my latest project here at home (getting stuff ready for a garage sale, selling things on craiglist, etc.) is almost taken care of. So, I can focus on training kids and dogs!  Should be fun.  :)