Very good advice Jean - especially with big dogs - you have to be the leader and you have to start training early and just like with kids, it's best if you don't start bad habits that you can't break later. I think it's so cool you socialize pups - all that cuddling and puppy breath.
HOWEVER, I did let the two pups watch a movie with us tonight. It's probably the only time I've watched a movie in months but I hurt my back putting in the new garden and laying on the sofa was about all I could muster tonight and I felt like cuddling my two little bears. The little boy wouldn't stay on the sofa, he got too hot right away and started panting and wanted down but the little girl sat there and really watched the movie - she never took her eyes off the screan. She got too hot too after a bit and got down and laid on floor next to her brother. They looked like two bear rugs. She did go poop earlier today and has been pooping ever since. I went ahead and gave them each a dose of Panacure because it will be Tuesday before the vet is back in town and the "breeder" said he has not given them anything for worms or puppy shots yet and they are "six, maybe seven, weeks old". They were outside in a dirty shed and he said his dogs always have worms because they eat the goat poop and he doesn't bother with worming them, he just takes them to the vet to be dewormed. I was getting a little worried that the little girl especially seemed somewhat lethargic and hadn't pooped so I gave them the medicine and they have been acting just like puppies ever since. Around here, we buy a large bottle of Panacure from the vet and keep it in the fridge because with all the dogs, cats, goats, etc. someone is always needing a dose. Actually, I have about the best vet pharmacy/medicine cabinet around since I tend to so many animals these days.
Tomorrow we go back to Covington to move some of our large furniture that we just moved off and left a year ago when we came here with just some clothes in a suitcase - prior owners originally left their furniture here and just handed over the keys. Over the last year and few months we've slowly moved a few pieces of furniture here and there but only the really necessary things like beds, but not the armoires, dishes but not the wall decorations, some clothes but not the whole closet. I'm figuring if I haven't needed it by now, it's not that important but we do need to get that house cleaned out and leased. The market is so bad right now I'm not going to attempt to sell it.
Well, it's time to take the puppies out for one last walk before bedtime.
