New Blogging Friend

Hi, everyone! I just wanted to tell you that my friend, Diana, who is raising her first puppy in my puppy raising group, started a new blog! She is awesome and her puppy, Viigo, is a super cute male yellow lab!

The link to her blog is:

http://mylillove.blogspot.com/

It is HOT

The weather here is so warm, too hot for right now! It is 95 outside and all of us humans and canines are burning up!!! I feel bad for Westin because it is so warm.

Swimming!

Today it is a beautiful day - nice and sunny!! Westin loves to play outside on the grass.  It has been hot lately so we decided to let Westin play in the water!!! 

The hose is a no-no, and I think that a full-sized, chlorinated pool is too much for a teeny puppy, we decided to go with a little baby pool.  

Puppy love

I LOVE my little man! He is amazing!  Not even 24 hours down and there are already dozens of things I love about him :)

Ten things I love about Westin:

1) He is SO loving

2) He likes to play with practically any toy

3) He comes prancing whenever I call his name with a happy voice :)

4) He doesn't mind the crate

5) He slept all through the night - he didn't cry to go out when I took him out at 7 this morning

6) He is adorable (but he could be three-legged and I would still know so)

7) He likes to play with people

8) He likes to play with dogs

9) He has puppy breath and puppy fur :)

10) I just LOVE LOVE LOVE him!!!

What do you LOVE about your puppy?

HE'S HERE!

Meet Westin!

He is well worth the wait - Westin is so cute, so sweet, so loving, so wonderful!!!

Right now he is passed out in his crate, but it wasn't always that way....it started off when I arrived at Guide Dogs of America about 15 minutes before eleven, when orientation was scheduled to start.  To my surprise, there were already three families there who were also getting puppies!!! One of the families is the one that we saw at Disneyland and we were thrilled to be getting littermates.  Lorri, who works at GDA and is also a GDA graduate came in and chatted with all of us for a little bit - she is so funny and has a great sense of humor.  The last person who was getting a puppy today finally arrived and orientation began.  I learned that there were actually eight puppies in the litter - one puppy is going to Washington and two are going somewhere else (I don't remember..Oregon possibly?) and that the litter is 100% YELLOW (that is rare at GDA).

After the hour-long orientation (three of the families out of five were first time puppy raisers so it was pretty lengthy), everyone got handed puppy bags filled with a bowl, a sterilized bone, a stuffed toy, a puppy blanket with littermate scent on it, a few baby pictures, folders with info/shot records, collars, leash, brush, etc.  Everyone also got a small bag of dog food - we got a big bag because Westin is sponsored (thanks Vons!).   It was finally time to get our puppies!!!

Westin and one of his sisters, Wailea, were the first two pups out of the nursery!

We then got to introduce the pups to grass. This is Westin playing with one of his sisters, Wheely (I may have spelled that wrong).

First Cradle

We've got a big future ahead of us, little man..

Once we got home, I relieved Westin and fed him (boy does he like to eat!).  He looked, tired, so I put him in his crate.

{puppy just woke up, play break}

30 minutes later.....

Where was I? Oh yes, he only cried for about 30 seconds before going right to sleep :) He is such a good boy!

This is it!

In just two hours, I will leave my house and come back with a 7 1/2 week old puppy in my arms!
Now to just make those hours short.... :)

Waiting..

...for there to be a neck to put this collar on!!! 

I am tempted to go to bed early just so I can wake up and it be tomorrow, but I don't want to wake up at 5 am like the last puppy pick up! Come on, everyone! Do you have ideas to help me pass the time? Just 14 hours left!