The pupsters and a quick update!

Sooo, again, I haven't been on for a while! I've been super busy with college finals, I actually finish tomorrow! Woohoo! I have to catch up on some amendments though :(haha. Anyways, enough about me! Although I've been offline, I've still been reading all the diaries and looking through all the galleries at everyone's lovely woofdogs! There's been some cracking pictures posted on here, and the facebook website

So now it's been a week or two since Charlie pup A.K.A Charles, (when he's being a good boy ), has joined the family. It's safe to say he's a bit dim, and looks like he hasn't really experienced anything! He was a bit of a nightmare on the first few walks, jumping up and chewing the lead (which I changed for a chain one in case he broke free ) and he would lunge up at people and pull incredibly badly to get to them! He'd then get into a right state, cry and roll all over the floor moaning and would end up humping my leg very aggressively in the street!!   This was rather mortifying as my little baby Ebony sat patiently and watched as her big little brother was going havoc! Thankfully being the brilliant dog she is, I could put her lead down while she sat there watching so I could sort Charles out! After a few days of this, slowly getting better he's pretty much near perfect now   He can still get a bit excited when he see's people, just very waggy and looks interested but he walks to heal now, and will also patiently wait by road sides until I say it's okay for them to cross - which I'm almost 100% sure he wouldn't have learnt as quick without Ebony by our side. I think having another dog who knows the boundaries of inside and out side the house has really helped him develop. He's a little devil dog when it comes to eating things though!   He truly is a nightmare, anything and I truly mean ANYTHING he can fit in his mouth he will eat (even things too big he'll have a good go!), he even got the drain cover out of the garden and ran round the garden with it happily today! It seems like his owners had just thrown him anything to eat as I've found him with 10ps in his mouth before, he'll dive on crisp wrappers, he'll try to eat bricks, plant pots, we had a KFC the other day and dad threw my straw to me and he dived on it to eat it and he's even had a good go at MY UNDIES!! Thankfully he's a good boy and if you straddle him you can open his mouth and take out whatever naughty things he has in there without any fuss. He also used to get incredibly excited when people came round, he'd jump up and mouth them and cry and just generally went crazy - which Ebony used to do but now she sits there and wags her tail super fast   He's slowly getting out of that bad habit now though which is good, he tends to just stand there wagging till you stroke him which is a big improvement. I haven't got round to working on his recall that much yet, but from what it seems if you have any treat or ball he'll come bounding back which is a good start (I've only been out with his long line 2-3 times) and he does follow Ebony back; as good as that is, I want him to respond to his name, not a ball or treat or follow Ebony so that's still a work in progress but he's getting there on that too   He's surprisingly well behaved when he's left alone though, considering how he chews everything he hasn't destroyed or left anything out of place while left alone with his blankie in the kitchen with the door shut! Soon I think he's going to be able to be left out with Ebony   He can't tell you when he wants to go out to the toilet which is a bit of a problem though, and he doesn't seem to remember words such as "walkies" "sweeties" "in/out" "garden" "bed" and he doesn't know what to do with blankets either, which is quite weird since he just looks at you blankly while Ebony is darting round the house   He'll get there though! He's messed in the house twice since he's been here, which I'm very proud about since that's all he's done and it was his first day left alone! Over all he's settled in nicely and him and Ebony are as thick as thieves! He can currently do Paw (both hands), Sit, Down, Stay and Leave so that's all good progress considering the size of his brain is very closely size related to a pea (so it seems)   He doesn't appear to be able to show that he loves you very well either, as he'll just stand there looking at you like he wants to get on the sofa and cuddle but he won't get on no matter how much you encourage him but if you get off and pick him up he loves it, covers you in kisses and walks all over you then falls asleep - so that also needs a bit of work bless him, I'm thinking it may just be because he's a bit weak as he can't always get on the bed either. Besides him being a bit of a handful, he really has settled in like a champ, especially considering his previous life. He's slowly started gaining his weight back on him, he made a lot of progress but about a week ago but randomly started throwing up pretty violently and had lost all his condition and weight so it was basically back to square one as he was wretching and being sick all night   Probably all the crap he'd eaten over a period of time though since he hasn't done it since. Anyways, there's a quick little update, and now it's picture and video time - YAY!

These were taken a few days ago; you can imagine how thin he was in the kennels while he was none stop moving, he actually had bigger meals in the kennels than he does at home with me since he isn't as active. This is quite an improvement too



Favorite place to be:

Here you can see how he holds his back legs when he stands too long, they sort of bend in a shake

Sleepy pup:

Close...

Closer....

We can see you taking pictures mom, gosh.

C'mon Charles, lets get back to sleep!

Wait, lets get a quick best pal close up!

How about a standing pose too?

And relax... I love holding your paw Eb



How I found them laying last night after being VERY quiet upstairs (notice his weight gain )...

Eb thinks Charlie is a very good bed:



Some garden pictures of them together - he looks so much healthier now


How about more pictures of me mom? You have lots of Eb

Okaaaay, I'll be good this time mommy










Playing...



New harness buddies:

Same faces

At the kennels posing for me:

Getting a treat:

Poser:

Running to mommy!

And lastly, my gorgeous puppies posing (my avatar) I hope you enjoyed!

Glad everythin is goin well for you, he's gorgeous! Looks like him an Ebony get on great! He's lucky to have her to show him the way, think most the time Diesel just leads Leroy astray lol

Great update  Glad to hear he is settling in well.. Lovely pics they are both gorgeous 

Charlie looks great and he and Eb really look like best of friends 

Great update Cody, fab pics, looks like they're really getting along, Eb is darcy's twin I'm sure

What amazing pictures. It's so nice to see them best of friends!!

Gorgeous pics Cody and great to see how well they get on. I guess I have to share my love for Ebs with Charles aswell not hard he is a beauty.

Lovely update! Sounds like he's settled in well and your doing really well with his training :-bdGorgeous piks, they look like they're bestest of friends

Ahhh Cody, thanks for the lovely collection of pics there and the up date, very pleased to hear that Charlie is settling in well with you and you haven't had too many accidents.

I absolutely love him! He looks like such a sweet fun dog. Do you think there is some boxer in there somewhere?

This is my fave!

such gorgeous pictures of them both ,glad its all going well with them,he certainly looks healthy now he is with you,thanks for all the great pics 

Great update and pictures.
Love the ones of Ebony sitting on the sofa with legs apart 

Great update, love the pics of them together, looks like they love each other loads

Thanks for the wonderful update! Glad to hear he is settling in so well! Good job to you both!

They look like close buddies.. well done.

Absolutely wonderful. Every single picture had me smiling and going "awwwww", they are wonderful babies. Well done. 

Daz

Loved reading that... well done to Ebony for being such a great example!!  Fantastic update.

Cracking pictures  Nice to hear Charlie is settling in well