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There are several of us that got our Hav's in June & July. All are about 10 - 14 weeks old now. I'm sure we're all going thru the same experiences, so let's share.

Kallie is 13 weeks. She's 5 lb 6 oz now. Has had her 2nd set of shots. She's quite a lively little girl. And I can tell when she hasn't gotten enough sleep throughout the day, she gets crazy & starts getting into things, testing us. I put her to bed & she goes right to sleep. Just like a toddler that needs a nap, gets cranky. Potty training is going pretty well. But I can tell she has more accidents on the weekends. I guess we're not quite as structured on weekends. Plus we had out-of-town company this weekend & she was completely off her schedule. Our company loved her, and she loved them. Greeted them with tail wagging every morning. Loved doing her RLH with them. She's on Wellness dry food (1/4 cup - 3 meals), with just a tad of canned (less than 1/2 tsp) mixed in. Sleeps from 9:00 PM til 4:30 AM when DH gets up. Today, Sunday, she actually slept til 6:15 AM. I was soooooooo happy! She's doing great with Sit and Down. She loves to play "Find It" where I hide a small piece of treat in the room & she has to find it. She searches til she finds the treat. Our biggest issue to date is the potty training. And I know she's still very young, but I take her outside so often I KNOW I have to be losing weight!

So what are you updates?
 
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We have to all be entering "blowing coat world". They're all around the same age & all starting to mat. Kallie's are all in a line straight across from front armpit to armpit. But they are definitely the bubblegum mats. Because they're in an area that can't be seen, I've cut out the ones that I can't get out with cornstarch. I's extremely careful to not cut too close to the skin. But once I've got the mass out, I can then comb out the balance of the mat. I don't have clippers, and I figure it's better not to let the mats grow. Her grooming appt isn't til the 21st.
 
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Not sure who the daddy will be at this point. I'm not even sure she has decided on who mommy will be yet LOL.
Yes, Loverboy is Q's daddy :)
I remembered that!
 
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I don't post much, but have been (mostly) lurking since July, when we got Zoey. I've enjoyed reading about and seeing pics of all the pups that are the same age. Zoey is a hav+toy poodle, and I just wanted to post a recent photo (she'll be 9 mos Jan 24). We flew with her from Ohio to Oregon over the holidays and she did great. We sat next to someone with a service dog on the plane, and both of them were equally quiet (proud moma here :)). Her coat is becoming more prone to mats, but if I keep on top of it they don't get too bad (yet). She has longer legs and a shorter back than most havs, but I think she has more hav in her than poodle
 

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Update on Benjamin -- Finally!

I am such a bad forum member, ha ha, but I do the best I can. I'm finally getting aroud to an update on Benjamin, with pics! He will be 9 months old tomorrow (the 14th). I am remembering back to when I first got him in June, and how much I enjoyed following along with posts about Ted, Quincy, Kallie, and others who were about the same age. It's been great to follow the progress of your puppies, and I am fascinated by the similarities and differences.

It seems to me that every time you get comfortable in a phase, it changes. As soon as you get past the early puppy phase you start to relax, then they go into adolescence. With Benjamin, after a lot of work and training, at around 5 or 6 months, he was doing so well with leash walking and basic commands, then he started getting really headstrong and wanted to do things his own way! Going for walks again became like it was when I first got him, with him dashing off in all directions and completely ignoring me. Except this time he was bigger and stronger, so harder to control. :frusty: Now we are past that -- a no pull harness definitely helps -- but now he is much more inclined to stand around and sniff things forever. At least I don't feel like I have to watch him like a hawk as I did at first, because he has become a bit more discriminating about what he actually puts in his mouth and swallows. It's still a bit nervewracking, though, because he sniffs at everything and we did have one bad bout back in September, with projectile bloody diarrhea for a few days, probably from some tree berry but I'll never know. After that he got really picky about food for a while, deciding he would rather eat chicken and rice than the dog food I had been giving him. Well come on, he's not stupid! Ha ha. That phase has passed, and mostly he is not picky at all. He seems to love everything, all of life -- food, people, dogs, cats (mostly to torment them), all kinds of weather, grass birds, he just goes towards life in a very confident and happy way that makes everyone love him. He thinks everything is a toy, and until he is less energetically curious about everything I will not let him run around free in the house for more than a few minutes. The bedroom is puppy proofed so that is OK, but in the rest of the house he is always finding things that I didn't think of to play with, i.e. the dirty cat litter scoop. :(

Anyway... so he had his neutering on Dec. 27th, and I kept him as quiet as I could for a week (which was not very quiet, but I did my best), and he is doing great. He still comes to work with me and gets to interact with a lot of people on a daily basis. He has a couple of doggie friends who he plays with regularly, we still are going to puppy playtime a couple of times a month, (they let him come still because he is a veteran and such a good canine citizen), and now he is going to doggie daycare one day a week. It just seems like he can never get enough of playing with other dogs! I am glad they put him in with the medium dogs in the daycare place (based on energy more than size), because the small dog room only had a few rather nervous looking little ones, and he likes to mix it up with the big dogs! It's a really good place, but that's a big topic.

Here are the photos. These 5 are ones I took, and separately I will post 3 that were taken by a much better camera and photographer. Re: these 5 pics... The first 2 were taken on November 1st, with Benjamin modeling his new raincoat. #3 is his "messy head" look, taken a few hours before his first professional grooming, and #4 is later the same day. She clipped his muzzle hairs too short!! Not his best look, I don't think, but he still looks pretty darn cute and it's growing back quickly. I love being able to see his eyes and face. The 5th pic is him in his Christmas outfit. He doesn't really like wearing clothes -- would much rather go bare nekkid, heh heh -- so a little green ruffled collar is his only concession to the holiday.

I will post the next 3 in a separate post, since the limit is 5. Sorry this is so long. Maybe if I posted more often they would be shorter. :) Before long we will all be posting their 1st birthday pics, so hard to believe!
-- Eileen
 

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3 More Benjamin Pics

These 3 were taken by a friend's partner, while Benjamin was playing at their house with his Chihuahua buddy, Bailey. Bailey's mom (headless in the pics) is my coworker across the hall and also brings Bailey in to work. We try not to goof off with the dogs too much, because we don't want to be 86'd! It's been lots of fun watching the evolution of Benjamin's and Bailey's relationship. When I first started bringing Benjamin to work, at age 10 weeks, Bailey was about 10 or 11, and having some health challenges. He was a little grumpy from not feeling well, but he's doing better now and Benjamin's grown up a little. Now they are good buddies.
 

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#151 ·
Oh, Eileen, so good to hear from you & Benjamin. He're really growing into quite a handsome young man! I love that bed-head pic! I think that's when they're the cutest - all a mess (just like me in the morning!). They really do go thru the same stages, with just a tweak her or there. I've run my hand into Kallie's mouth so many times it's just second nature to me. DH always says "what's in her mouth? I can't find it!". Takes me a second to scoop in & pull the plastic bottle cap or whatevere out of her mouth. She's even to the point I can say "What have you got? Come here!" and she will come over to me so I can stick my hand in & fish it out. Too funny. And you're right, before we blink we'll be celebrating their 1st birthdays. They're growing too fast!
 
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So today is Quincy's big day. He's at the vet for his snip. Got the call earlier that he is doing good but he has the cone of shame because he started licking :( I guess he's going to come home with it too. That should be interesting since he'll be giving me the most pathetic looks ever while it's on. It's so quiet here without him, I'm lonely! LOL It was definitely harder on mommy than it was on Q!
 
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I can totally empathize, Dory, since I went through it with Benjamin not long ago. If Quincy continues to lick, you might consider getting him a little onesie to wear instead. Benjamin didn't seem to mind wearing that at all, though it's a little bit of a nuisance for pottying. Anyway... this time will pass quickly, and soon Quincy will be good as new!
-- Eileen
 
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Q is doing good. He's getting used to the cone. I do take it off when we go outside to potty, otherwise he's like a snow shovel out there with it LOL. I'm hoping to be able to take it off him tomorrow, but we'll see. As of this morning, he was still trying to lick a little bit. They said it could come off as early as 3 days, so we'll see. I've been trying to take it off a little bit in the house, but as soon as he goes for the area, I put the cone right back on.

Here's a pic of him with his cone of shame.
 

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Q is doing good. He's getting used to the cone. I do take it off when we go outside to potty, otherwise he's like a snow shovel out there with it LOL.
:pound: You just made me spit coffee on my keyboard!!!
 
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I think I hate those cones as much as the dogs do! They can't lay down with them easily. Can't eat with them on. Kallie can't even walk right with it on! She keeps putting her head down & it drags on the floor. I know they're a necessary evil, and I do use them when needed, but I really don't like them. Poor Q!
 
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