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A puppy for Christmas

We’ve been waiting 5 weeks to get our beaglier x mini foxy puppy. I had these day dreams of our family going to the park together in the evening with the puppy, all of us running around, laughing and having fun. We will do that, in addition to taking her for runs, walks and play dates with other dogs. It’s hard waiting, but puppies are vulnerable to the canine parvo virus, which is spread by faeces, and can kill young pups. Going to the park, or anywhere else a puppy might come into contact with other dogs poop could be deadly until they turn 12 weeks and receive their parvo virus vaccination. Right now she is only 8 weeks old.

I also didn’t realise that having a puppy would deprive me of sleep for a number of weeks. They can’t go all night without needing to pee and/or poop, which means I also have to wake up to take her out to pee/poop. It’s like having a newborn. And like having a newborn, even though they are hard work, looking at her adorable face, and getting great cuddles makes it totally worth it. I’m just glad this night waking thing should be over by the time university starts back up next year so my brain won’t be in a sleep deprived fog whilst I try to get good marks in chemistry.

On Christmas eve, I picked up our new puppy. I got home long after the kids had gone to bed, upping my chances of concealing the puppy until morning. She whined a lot over night, had to go to the bathroom 3 times, and kept us up for many hours. We couldn’t really blame her though, we did take her from her mom and dad, we were strangers, and we completely changed life as she knew it.

In the morning, we woke the kids from their slumber (perhaps I was more excited about seeing their reactions to their presents then they were about getting them in the first place…), sat them in front of the Christmas tree, and then brought out the special present. I’d wrapped the flip lid box so that it was still a flip lid box, just a very Christmasy one.

Hannah and Daniel groggily sit in front of the tree

I should have waited for the kids to wake up a bit first, but we were impatient, so their reactions were not exactly the over the top, screaming with excitement type we were going for, but they were groggily excited nonetheless.

Each day Rosie settles in more and more. Hannah adores her and wants to cuddle and play with her all day long. Daniel is a bit scared of her since Rosie thinks a human running means they want to play. Daniel runs from her, which entices Rosie to run after him, which in turn scares Daniel, makes him run faster and then gets Rosie even more excited for play time. He’ll get used to her though.

When she wakes up in the morning, Rosie is like a 6 year old who’s consumed a huge bowl of lollies. Absolutely wild. She tears around the house trying to chew on anything and everything like a tiny ball of energy. Needless to say, she will be going for morning runs with me as soon as she has that vaccination.

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