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  • Whiskey the little celebrity

    We are famous!!  On a hike to Deep Cove a couple weeks ago we met a nice man who took a couple shots of Whiskey as she was romping around.  We finally made it on his website 🙂

  • Whiskey comes home

    Whiskey comes home

    It was sooooo hard to get through the day today.  My partner flew in with Whiskey on a 4.5 hour flight from Montreal.  The battery on his phone failed and the connection was too spotty for a phone call at the breeder’s so I was just staring at the one picture he could send before he caught the flight (she’s small enough to be taken as hand luggage).  I left work early and headed to the airport where I awaited…the cutest, tiniest little Vizsla ever.  I’ve never met a Vizsla puppy and didn’t realize she’d be so small.  Apparently, she was a trooper on the plane, going to the bathroom (on a peepad) without an issue and charming all the air hostesses.

    She popped her little head out of the bag to say hello and immediately wanted out (who could blame her after the flight?).   We had a bit of an issue grabbing a dog friendly taxi (even if we kept her in the carrier) and then we were on the way home.  As soon as we got home, I realized the cat had gotten into the drawers and ate half a bag of freeze dried chicken while shredding the rest all over the kitchen.  Sigh, such is a life of family pets.

    Already Whiskey was very attached to my partner and I was jealous!  We introduced her to her playpen area (sectioned off with baby gates) and she was really quiet and super cute.  Moo was very curious and observed the circus from her high view points and made a face when she smelled the dog.  Dogs are very smelly compared to cats!  Ewww.

    We just spent the night cuddling Whiskey and playing with her new toys.  She ate dinner without an issue but it took a bit of patience to get her to pee outside in the alley (she’s used to grass in the countryside).  We live in an apartment on the 2nd floor, so for now we are carrying her outside by taking the stairs.  There was a bit of whining when we put her in the crate, but otherwise success!

    At the breeder’s
    meeting at the airport
  • Getting ready

    Getting ready

    Oh man!!!  We are so excited!!!  You can tell by the amount of exclamation marks 🙂  So we’ve done a bunch of research over at least a year and have settled on a breed (Vizsla, obviously), breeder, and we await our first puppy together.  My partner has had dogs his whole life with his family but this would be my first ever dog, and just a couple months ago we got our first cat.

    Moo is a rescue that came to us from VOKRA.  She’s been the perfect pre-puppy since she’s pretty much a dog in-disguise.   We quickly discovered she’ll do anything for treats and we’ve already had her successfully trained to “come” “sit” “lie down” “roll over” “paw” and go to where we point.  We choose a confident cat, and have made her a bunch of cat shelves she can escape to in case of stress, though we know that it would take awhile for any cat to get used to a crazy puppy.

    So with the cat trained up, we’ve been reading a couple books and watching tv shows (Ian Dunbar, Ceasar Milan, Victoria Stilwell), talking to friends, stalking Vizslas and their owners in dog parks, and going on dog-supply shopping sprees.  Who would have known it could cost so much before getting the puppy?  Cats are practically free!  Here is our puppy list:

    -crate

    -baby gates

    -kongs

    -balls

    -chew toys: antlers, nylabones, bullysticks

    -food

    -treats

    -food bowls

    -beds

    -puppy pee pads (use for plane only)

    -plane-approved carrier

    -collar

    -leash (we got several types)

    -tooth brush and paste

    -shampoo, ear cleaner, styptic powder

    -bleach (for cleaning her outdoor pee place)

    -dremel (for nails)

    -poop bags

    -a good insurance company

     
    Moo inspects the goods