Puppy Trade

When we were trading back puppies, Jazzy came home and was able to play with Jaya before she had to leave.  They had A LOT of fun! When we weighted Jazzy and Jaya at the pre-vet class Jazzy was 39 lbs. and Jaya was 38 lbs., so the fun of this post is to see if you can tell which one is Jazzy and which one is Jaya.  Good luck!  One of our favorite pictures is from a walk on the River Walk trail.....

They walked very cute togther.  Jaya had been timid to walk before Jazzy got home, but when they walked together Jaya had a great time walking with her sister! 

Ryan and I cheated a little bit to get the puppies to relax with each other for a miute rather than tackle; we gave them ice!  Jaya and Jazzy were quite competitive at eating ice.  When there was only one ice cube remaining the dog without the ice went and sat right under the pup with the ice, just in case it dropped from their mouth.   That is why Jazzy learned to eat the ice with her nose in the air; she did not want to lose one little piece.

Jaya and Jazzy played tug with almost every toy we had laying on the floor. They play extremely well together because they play nearly identical; neither one is dominant or intimidated.  They are so fun!

This is one of my favorite pictures; they were often standing side by side not wanting to move or else they would lose hold of the small toy they were tugging.  Can you tell who is who?  I can tell by their tails!

When dinner came around Jaya somehow got food all over her face.  You can see the light colored spots on her nose.

Well......Jazzy was definitely going to take advantage of that situation.  Jaya had got off all of the food she could possibly get off her own nose so she let Jazzy get the rest.  It was as if they were working as a team and knew what each other had to do.  Jazzy got the better end of the deal!

Jazzy wanted to make sure she did not miss one speck.......

And, of course, they finished with a game of toy tug!

Puppies and vets

I don't think that the puppies especially liked the last puppy meeting!  Baths, toe nail clipping, and anal gland checks are not something the puppies enjoyed! Jazzy especially did not like the pre-vets giving her a bath.  I almost couldn't post this picture because of how sad Jazzy looks.

 I believe Jakota was expressing how all of the puppies felt as she was trying to jump back into Cloey's arms.

Before Jazzy's bath she was a bit more curious and was checking things out in the sink.  She didn't find anything, then just as she was getting up they started to take her tempurate; she did NOT like that.

There was one big showoff, Nigella; she just smiled her way through the process, although she didn't look so happy when she was getting her temperature taken.

Chad and Jazzy - one last time

Chad and Jazzy had a great time the day before Chad left.  It was a perfect sunny day and they had so much fun.  Before the second play time Karen brought out a nice big bowl of ice water for the puppies, but they had wrestled, tipped, and splashed the water in 10 seconds, so they just laid down and ate the small bits of ice from the ground.

After each ice bit was eaten the puppies played keep away.  Chad usually had the bone and would run around egging Jazzy on so she would keep chasing him.  He galloped around so proud of himself while Jazzy was trying to manuever around his body to get her teeth on just one end of the bone.  I told Roger that Chad was just getting his revenge from when he had to run and run and run to try to catch Ellison.

Jazzy tried to sneak up on Chad and pounce quickly to see if she could get the bone that way. It didn't work and Chad wasn't intimidated at all. 

 Chad and Jazzy had such a great time together!

MEDICINE OR SNACK?



I am not sure if something is wrong with Jazzy because I have never seen a Guide Dog pup leave their bowl of food.  Jazzy loves her food, but the Heartguard must have had sugar in it or something because when she found it this time she took off into the other room.  She quickly laid down to intently munch on her Heartguard (to her it must have been a new and tasty snack).  I captured a picture of the unattended bowl of food and Jazzy in the other room searching for more Heartguard.

Empty bowl...

 And Jazzy in the other room trying to find any lost bits of Heartguard........................

 Crazy and cute puppies!