Although she looks bigger in this photo than she actually is, Rosie is now 3 months old. (I think it was the angle of the camera and the fact that Rebecca is leaning backwards.)She went to the vet for another round of puppy shots on the 12 week mark and weighed in at a whopping 4 pounds. She is quite the little chunker. She is getting bigger but in the previous pictures, you can see, she is still quite small.
She still gets car sick but the vet said that when she is older, we can give her Dramamine. She will take her first big trip to visit my grandma next week. She is not an outdoor dog but don't tell her that. She loves to run through a pile of leaves and dig in the dirt. She has a monkey for her favorite toy. She has learned to sit and we're working on shake. She is fast as lightening when going up the stairs therefore we still have baby gates up trapping her in the kitchen/family room area. She does stay upstairs with us most of the time during school hours. She plays in the school room but if she starts making too much of a distraction, she gets put in the pack-n-play for a nap. House training is still iffy. Some days she does great with no accidents and others (mostly Saturdays) we just can't stay on top of it!
My vocabulary has widened greatly. I've seen just about every Yorkie Poo website out there and done extensive research on both Yorkies and Poodles. Our newest term that we are having to deal with is "submissive urination".
She still gets car sick but the vet said that when she is older, we can give her Dramamine. She will take her first big trip to visit my grandma next week. She is not an outdoor dog but don't tell her that. She loves to run through a pile of leaves and dig in the dirt. She has a monkey for her favorite toy. She has learned to sit and we're working on shake. She is fast as lightening when going up the stairs therefore we still have baby gates up trapping her in the kitchen/family room area. She does stay upstairs with us most of the time during school hours. She plays in the school room but if she starts making too much of a distraction, she gets put in the pack-n-play for a nap. House training is still iffy. Some days she does great with no accidents and others (mostly Saturdays) we just can't stay on top of it!
My vocabulary has widened greatly. I've seen just about every Yorkie Poo website out there and done extensive research on both Yorkies and Poodles. Our newest term that we are having to deal with is "submissive urination".
Here's the best way to describe it if you are unfamiliar with the term:
"Submissive urination is done instinctively by a dog who's trying to make it as clear as he can, in dog language, that he knows you're the boss! Unlike normal urination, submissive urination is usually accompanied by other signals of submission such as lowered ears, lowered tail, lowering his body or sometimes even laying down and rolling over. "
She pees whenever she sees Jay after he's been gone for awhile. She loves him the best and gets so excited when she hears his footsteps or hears his voice. She goes crazy jumping around, clawing at the gate if he's out of the room, barking... Once he enters the room or speaks, she does the above examples listed. It's hard for him to ignore her but that is what he has to do so that she will grow out of this dirty little habit of hers.
We all love our newest member of our family. She sure does make things interesting!
1 comment:
Ummm Shea,
My mom has a submissive wetter and Penny never out grew it. She did get better, and we learned how to avoid trigging it some. But she always dribbled just a little. I hope that Rosie does outgrow it completely. Shes a real cutie!!
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