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Emma's been with us since Friday, February 1. At her trip to the vet Monday, she weighed 14.5 pounds. She stood 15.5" high at the shoulders and is 15" long, measuring her back from where her neck meets it to where her tail starts. Pretty much a little square with a head and tail. ;o)
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Feb 7, 2002
She loves the squeaky rabbit we bought for Sarah, as well as the remnants of a stuffed moose Sarah has "loved" to death. Once she figured out how to squeak these things, she went to town. Squeak, squeak, squeak...LOL
Feb 7, 2002
You can see the greyhound in her hindquarters, especially. She looks just like the greyhound pups we've looked up on the web, with the exception of her ears being a little bigger and floppier. She may be a large dog! The vet estimates she's 10-12 weeks old, and says it's really hard to say how big she'll get.
I took this at my mother-in-law's Monday. Emma desperately wanted to get to the dog food we'd put up on the counter, just out of her reach.
This will be a good benchmark in the future to show how big she was at the time, too. For all we know, she will someday be able to rest her chin on that counter while all four paws are still on the linoleum, LOL.
Feb 9, 2002
My friend Bev (aka Jardinera here at DG) came over and steam-cleaned our living room carpet today, just as a blessing to us. Believe me, our carpet was in MAJOR need of a blessing after Sarah's bladderstone episode a year ago.
Sarah attacked Emma last night when Howie and I were playing with them last night. Emma ignored Sarah's growls and bared teeth one too many times, and Sarah went after her. It was *awful* - we had to pull her away and smack her as Emma retreated to the bedroom. Emma's okay, but she does have a cut under her left eye and some bruising; thank God Sarah didn't injure Emma's eye. We will have to really watch them and make sure Emma is distracted away from Sarah when she gets to be too much for our crotchety grande dam.
Oh...And Emma peed on the bed when she ran in there. As if the cat pee incident of 2001 wasn't enough:
And she did it again a little while later, when we weren't looking. Grrrrr. I want to crate train her and keep the crate in the basement; Howie wants to crate train her, too, but keep it upstairs. Howie's friend Ken is loaning us a huge a huge crate indefinitely, and it's just too big to have anywhere upstairs.
What to do...What to do...
Feb 9, 2002
Emma would have gone a whole day with no accidents had it not been for an altercation between her and Sarah. Sarah got fed up with Emma's antics and went after her. It was awful. I pulled Sarah off of Emma and the pup went yelping into the bedroom. She has a small cut under her right eye, and it's scary to think Sarah could have blinded her. We definitely can't leave them alone together, at least not until Emma's a lot bigger (if then).
Oh, and Emma peed on the bed when she ran into the bedroom. It didn't get all the way through to the mattress, thank God. No, our lovely, thick dry-clean-only comforter soaked most of it up. Nice, huh? But it gets better: After we stripped the bed and remade it, she peed in the bottom corner! It's a darned good thing she has puppy pee that doesn't smell much...And that it didn't get through to the mattress, either.
Ahhhh, the joys of puppyhood. Well, at least everyone gets along fairly well *most* of the time. Here's Emma, Sarah and Hattie, all relaxing in the office...
Feb 11, 2002
Our best friends gave us a baby gift for Emma Saturday. It was a bag full of doggie goodies and toys - very, very cool. :) Emma is now 17" long and 16" tall, so she's gotten 1/2" taller and 2" longer in a week.
