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There is Nothing Like Sibling Love
Koda and Summer are very lucky to live their days side by side, snuggling, playing and growing up. Most puppy siblings are separated around eight weeks old, joining new forever families. Occasionally people bravely adopt two littermates like we did. Ignoring the online naysayers, we moved forward in our quest for raising two Aussiedoodles from →
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You Win Some, You Lose Some
Losing stinks. No matter how you try to extract anything positive out of defeat, the plain truth is that losing does not feel as good as winning. This weekend I sat in the stands at two of my son’s football games, and both times when the clock ran out we had fewer points on the →
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There are things I say to the puppies that I said often to my four kids.
No standing on the sofa! Leave your brother alone! That’s too rough! Play nice! Did you here what I just said? No! Don’t eat that! Put that down! Where did you get that? Who did this? Who made this mess? That is not a toy! Why is it wet here? What is that smell? You →
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What’s in Your Toy Box?
The toy box sits in the corner of the room. The metal wire-framed basket replaced the fabric covered cardboard toy box which the puppies chewed up the same day we bought it. I like this sturdy indestructible toy box even better because they can see each item inside. Koda and Summer will actually go over →
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The Aussiedoodle Tooth Fairy will be visiting our house tonight!
A new milestone has been reached, Koda lost a tooth! Koda actually lost two teeth. Two long sharp puppy canines. The vet asked me if I had found any teeth on the carpet at our last appointment. I had not, so I have been on the lookout for lost teeth. Summer and Koda are used →
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Hurricane Florence
Hurricane Florence is heading our way. For the past week we have been receiving warnings about being prepared for high winds, an onslaught of rain, and power outages. The projected pathways have shifted with each passing day. Different colors representing different degrees of the strength of Florence’d wrath spread across the television set. We live →
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