Day 123 - Week 18 - LOVE OF PUPPIES (January 27, 2011)

I hope you all got to watch the segment on Global TV news this past week where they featured BC Guide Dogs.  It was very good and of course I started crying as I thought of my little one all grown up and helping guide someone blind through life.  How proud I will be of her! 
Bill of BC Guide Dogs, mentioned how the puppy raisers take care of the little ones and how they manage to destroy our homes and then when they are perfect we have to give them back.  Well...I already think she is perfect but let me share with you some of the things she has destroyed in my home. 

Chewing and ruining the legs of my dining room chairs, my sofa leg, my bed raisers, rumerous rolls of toilet paper, my Coach bag, my jackets, scratches on my beautful hard word floors, my blackberry, her leash, my slippers, baskets, plastic storeage containers.  The book and magazines she tore to shreds.  Oh and of course the time she electrocuted herself when she bit right through my computer power cord !  Cost me $70 to replace it!

But I would go through it all again.  I love her to death!
Although we are a long way off, I asked Linda how much notice we are given when they take the pups back.  She jokingly said, "The day we drop off a new 8-week puppy at your door step you will know!"

Day 119 - Week 18 SMILES (Jan 23, 2011)

One of my favourite things about Puppy Eve is the smiles she puts on everyone's faces!  As we walk down the streets of Vancouver every day, this little one makes people of all ages smile!  It really is a wonderful site and I never really took much notice of it in the beginning.  Probably because it was stressful just taking her out for a walk. Remember those days?  I couldn't even get her to walk a block and I felt trapped in my condo for weeks!  Times have changed.  Now I notice the big smiles of everyone who sees her.  It is amazing how this animal can bring such joy to people.  She is pretty gorgeous if I do say so myself!
She is pretty well mannered now especially in public.  It is easy to take her anywhere.  She loves friday night drinks at the bar and weekend hockey games at the pub.  And yes she gets a lot of attention everywhere she goes.  She is definitely loved by all...just take a look at the smiles on these faces! 

Day 110 - Week 16 - HAPPY BIRTHDAY (Jan 14 2010)

Happy 6 month birthday to my little baby, Eve!  AND Happy 15th birthday to my beautiful niece, Makayla!  Hugs, love and kisses!
After 4 weeks off, it was back to Obedience class today!  Considering the time off, she did pretty well.  We are now in a class of 17 dogs!  WOW it is a lot of distraction.  By the end of the class, Eve sleept for hours.  She is mentally exhausted after the classes.  But overall, I must say I was very proud of her.  We do have a few things to work on...recall (Eve sit, stay, come).  The sit and stay is very good but running off to the other puppies instead of to me...NOT SO GOOD!  "Down" is another one we have to work on. She understands it but only does it when she feels like it. 
6 months old!  She is growing up so quickly!  We must run...we are going out for drinks tonight.  This is Eve in my dad's closet.  She loves small, dark spaces to sleep in!

Until next time...Andrea & Eve

Day 103 - Week 15 - THE SHOWER

I love shower time 'cause Eve is so cute!  She will be playing, sleeping or just minding her own business, so I will get in the shower for my daily routine.  As soon as I turn on the shower and get in, I turn around and there is littly Puppy Eve's head peaking around the shower curtain at me!  Every morning!  She then licks up the water on the tub, so I splash a little more water over there to keep her entertained.  After a while she gets bored and leaves or sometimes curls up on the bath mat and waits for me.(Ok, this sounds like I spend hours in the shower, but really I don't!)

As soon as I turn off the shower she is back in the bathroom and starts barking at me to get out!  She then starts to lick my legs which I hate!  She then proceeds to sit and watch me get ready for the day.  Moisturize, brush my hair, apply my makeup, brush my teeth, get dressed.  It's our daily routine! 
She is really growing up and is so cute.  She weighed in at the vet this week at a whopping 42 lbs.  On the 14th of January, which is one week away she will officially be 6 months old!
Speaking of the vet!  We are getting pretty familiar with that place unfortunately!  Eve has had a bout of the runs every 2-3 weeks since she arrived from California.  It lasts between 4-5 days and those are sleepless nights.  The vet is doing extensive analysis on her poop and hopefully they can get to the bottom of this mess!  Other than that, she is a beautiful, happy, amazing pup!  Oh yeah...great news.  Her head bobbing issue has completely stopped! 

Here is a picture of Eve with my nieces over the Christmas holidays.

Day 100 - Week 15 HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy New Year everyone!
Hard to believe that my little bundle of joy has been with me for 100 days now!  Time is going way too quickly!
We had a wonderful holiday up in the Okanagan and Eve is a natural flyer.  She was a hit at the airport of course.  She is such a cutey!  We had bulk head seating, row 1 and she pretty much took over the entire row herself.  Fortunately on both flights the people beside us had no problems with this.  They were thrilled to be sitting with her!
Well we start a new year and Eve and I are both excited about this.  Many new things and adventures to come our way in 2011. 
We will be chatting again soon!
This is a picture of my dad taking Eve for a snowy walk over the holidays.