The sun is out and so is the puppy General Chat

Tikva still does not want to go out for walks with my little scooter but show her the tether... and she will be outside for about four hours - and yesterday she wanted to go out again in the late afternoon when it was getting dark, and was outside again for another couple of hours.

She is still not asking to go out because she wants to "go" although the hours she out she must be dong something somewhere. She comes in occasionally for a drink, hops onto the couch for a rest, then as long as her tether is on she goes out again.

She is so much like Pereg was in so many ways. "There is a car parked outside - gotta bark." "There are people standing outside talking- gotta bark". So bark - they do not live here!

The one thing that Tikki does that Pereg never did, is stand up on her hind legs and dance. Pereg could not even roll over let alone get up on her hind legs although we never did find out why. She could not even lay on her back and yet she was perfectly healthy - apart from being epi. Tikva stands up and dances. She rolls over on the couch or the floor, and I wonder why Pereg could not do it?

But Tikva does so many things that Pereg did, although Pereg was much better behaved. It is strange though - it is as if Pereg is teaching Tikki things. And Tikki has 90% stopped biting - Pereg never bit - so somehow I believe that Pereg is teaching her, as I now have a puppy who wants to come and sit on my lap for a cuddle. Not for long, but I am not going to argue with her.

That's good news Tikva enjoying being outdoors, even better that she's learning from Pereg, I know my Zara (previous system alert dog) was teaching K9 small things that she use to do & sometimes I see K9 looking to where Zara would sun bathe on the top landing.

I am sure that the spirit of Pereg is teaching the mini minster - it is taking time but there are so many similarities that it is uncanny, especially as I lost Pereg 13½ months before Tikva was born. But I still had Little One when I adopted Pereg so she had someone to teach her - Tikki had no-one. Pereg went through a diabolical Kevin stage but she never bit, and that it what I am working on with Tikva although why does she not bite anyone but me? Although that is thankfully easing off now.

She thinks it is fun go bite my ear when I get down to pick up one of her little poos from a pee mat first thing in the morning, but she is just more gentle now. Maybe she is learning?

It just seems so strange having an 8½ month old puppy who still acts like a bdooly nuisance instead of behaving like a nearly grown-up dog.

Well Tikva is half Dachshund & they are well known to be slow learners.
There are 2 most beautiful coloured Dachshunds on park (smokey tri coloured & sandy tri coloured) both are 2 years old & owner says still not 100% house trained or recall safe.

Tina - I will not give up on Tikva however long it takes. If it was take her now with the unspoken "or else" - what happened to the other seven pups? House training I am not bothered about as I have a puppy pad each side of the bed I bought for Baby Ziva, that Tikva uses it as a toy box since she was able to get on the couch during the day for a nap. Hopefully she will never be able to get up on my bed so sleeps in her crate at night - but I do miss a cuddle pup on my bed at night...

But Tikki knows what the pads are for and [mostly] uses them. The problem now is that she loves being outside on her long tether, and we have another month of rain due, which means more mud and no more going out once the rain starts again.

If I had known then what I known now about Doxies... but I would still have brought her home. The unspoken "or else" did it for me.

Nir turned up this morning and cleared up the blocked up whatever - also cleaned up up the whotsit along side the side of the house.

He has also - oh what is the word? Scraped out all of the rain yuck that blocked blocked up front yard pavement.

There will me more rain, which we need, but for the moment there will hopefully not end up with a puppy shoulder deep in mud.

i think I am talkinking rubbish but if you had any idea of the mud that that spewed down my yard you might understand why I am delighted!

And so is the puppy!

It pished down all night and is still pishing down. The front yard is spewing mud but - but - had not Nir scraped etc everywhere it would have been worse. It is going to be bad as it is now and no way can the puppy go out.

At least he turned up when it was dry. Now there is a mud flood spewing down my front yard and I have a looney puppy want to go out ?

Oh, and she, the little booger, ate her new waistcoat harness.

How?

Oh, and she got out of her crate.

HOW?

And she got onto my HIGH bed.

HOW?

And she peed in my bed but I am not going to ask how.

Free to a good home.

Changed my mind.

This horrid puppy is not going anywhere. I love her too much.

Michal came round to clip her claws as there is no way I can do them. Michal adores Tikki so what can I do do? I can not clip her claws.

The then new harness is now in the bin and a new one is now on.. And only I got bitten once this time. Congratulations Tikva

Not that she can go go out as it is it it is piddling down - do not ask.

I can not get out - the mud is upsheet deep - and it is I was more than happy to pay for a call last week.

I do not know how much a call out charge is but but I I doubt it is it is much more than a call out for a taxi. And it it it is much easier for Michal to to come here than me to try to get out.

All I kept thinking was that had I I not had had Nir do all that work last week, this would have taken weeks to have done.

The rain has stopped, the mud has dried [rather quickly but from the look of the sky it is gonna bucket down soon] and IT is out wearing an emerald green mesh harness. I had bought a do=not=know=how=many which worked out at $20 for the lot, "take what we send you no choice in colour". Her? wearing emerald green?

So she is out again and actually looks cute in emerald green probably because she is a glorious chestnut colour. I dread to think what she will look like in red, blue, pink, and to be honest I do not care!

I had to have her claws cut. The back ones were fine as she dances on them when outside, but she hurt me with the front ones which really did need cutting. And she lets Michal clip them. Chung chung chung. Oh, and then zuzz them.

Even if I had a car I cannot drive now. And Tikva is a lot happier having Michal come here - well, she only once went to the surgery and that was to be spayed, and Michal took us and then brought Tikki home. How much luckier can I have with vets? Ram with my beloved Pereg and now with Michal who adores Tikki. How many other people have vets who will make house calls for even a minor think like claw clipping?

I ought to change my avatar but how can I? That is my beloved Pereg.

Keep Pereg as your avatar & have Tikva as welcome graphic that way you have both lovely dogs xx

Lovely? Tikva is EVIL. She is currently a eating a plastic toy box.. Oh, and G-d knows how, let her out of her crate and she is up on the bed, which is IMPOSSIBLE. It not only has a very high mattress but also has two wotsits on top of the mattress which makes it VERY high. Necessary for me.

Have a look at Breedia Doxie instructions. Do not let them run up and down stairs. Do not let them jump on furniture. And I do not know if it says this but Do Not Let Them Jump On High Beds.

My bed is very high. I had the mattress made extra height, have two toppers on top so it is really very high.

And this half-breed Doxie can now jump up on it? She has also managed to open one of the two doors on her crate.

How?

This is not a puppy, this is a mini monster.

On second/third thoughts, free to a good home.

I know how to change my avatar, I just can not bear to. How can I change it from my beloved Pereg?

I actually do love that skinny Tikva very much but I do not want to change my avatar.

However... how on earth does a small hound manage to get on my extra high bed? First of all, how did she get out of her crate?

Malka my hooligans could jump up on my sofa at 6 weeks old, (its a cottage style sofa that's been raised up by 8inch) which I thought was impossible, but the little hooligans had other ideas they soon learnt how to jump Up on sofa.

76cm which is about 30" - whoosh and she is now up. And yet she is so skinny. She was spayed on 23 November and Ram had to check the scales because they showed her weighing 6kg and he could not believe it as she is so small and he thought she was too small for him to spay her.

I mean she is thin but she does not ask for more food. Thin? She is skinny, but she cannot be hungry as she ignores me when I eat and is happy to have a raw bone meal around 9-10am [either a chicken neck or half a chicken back - both bought fresh and packed and frozen by me, and given to her frozen] and then a raw meat and vegetables [and supplements] around 8pm.

She also has maybe a very small biscuits when I want her to go into her crate during the day if I want to go over to the macolet, one at night for her to go into her crate, or if she has eeped to go out during the night to pee or poo on a pad in the salon [what, do it in her crate?] and a couple of really mini mini treats during training.

But she is so thin, According to all the charts she is way underweight but does not nag for food, so she cannot be hungry, can she? And she is so non-stop rushing around and then having a sleep and then rushing around again. And how the heck she can now jump up so high to get on the bed?

76cm which is about 30" - whoosh and she is now up. And yet she is so skinny. She was spayed on 23 November and Ram had to check the scales because they showed her weighing 6kg and he could not believe it.

I mean she is thin but she does not ask for more food. Thin? She is skinny, but she cannot be hungry as she ignores me when I eat and is happy to have a raw bone meal around 9-10am [either a chicken neck or half a chicken back - both bought fresh and packed and frozen by me, and given to her frozen] and then a raw meat and vegetables [and supplements] around 8pm.

She also has maybe three or four very small biscuits when I want her to go into her crate during the day if I want to go over to the macolet, or if she has eeped to go out during the night to pee or poo on a pad in the salon [what, do it in her crate?] and a couple of really mini mini treats during training.

But she is so thin. According to all the charts she is way underweight but if she is not hungry, does not nag for food [and oh boy, does she know where her food, bikkies and treats are], and is so active, should I worry she is so thin?

That did not sound right. She does not have three or four small biscuits, just one - I meant maximum three or four biscuits during 24 hours. And she is much too small, especially being half Doxie, to leap like a flying frog, to take a flying leap onto that high a bed.

But what can I do?

She does not ask for more food but she is really so thin, and according to the charts she is much too thin. And after years of keeping Pereg from being overweight, what do I do?

Breedia says Doxies have to be kept underweight and here I have a half Doxie who looks like she has been starved.

Don't worry to much Malka as Tikva is still puppy & as another year to finish filling out yet