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Dog's rules

Barking Barking Barking

I know she's a dog, but at he most embarassing or annoying times, she barks. like at 4 AM when she hears the neighbors below us stirring to get ready for work, and my husband and I are both fast asleep. Or when she sees a squirrel out the window in the middle of a phone conversation. or when we go to the pet store.

The barking issue is quite serious. I need her to be quiet and not interested when it comes to passing other dogs. But she just goes ballistic. it's not vicious. She is just so exited that she has to vocalize. And the pitch of her bark is quite piercing. It's annoying and embarrasing and frightens other dogs. Nothing I do will get her to quit unless I totally remove her from the situation, and even then she grumbles the whole way.

O my Snow!

Poor Foxxy! It's hard to live life with a 5 inch clearance when there is 12 inches of snow on the ground. I put up a couple of pics my husband took. It didn't quite catch her at her happiest. mostly she wants off the leash, but we couldn't stay because the neighbors have a sort of pecking order about the park. big dogs seem to get all the time they want there, and whenever a small dog wants to use the park we always have to wait. Even in the blowing and drifting snow. Because obviously big dogs deserve the park more. The karma is on them anyways. The bigger dogs have owners that don't tend to pick up poop for some reason. Oh yeah and their owners let them trash the fence. they're the ones who will eventually be banned for defacing property. We got chased out of the dog park by the neighbor next door that demanded that his precious GSD's get their chance immediately, when Foxxy hadn't even been off leash for more than a minute. Seriously.

but she really does like the snow very much. She hops through it and digs in it, plows throug it, and omes back with that huge ear splitting grin that betrays her pomeranian side. She still does not shiver much, even in the very cold. I don't know what I am going to do tomorrow. We are supposed to have 50 mph winds, and I can't take Fox out in that. I would have a kite instead of a dog.

Fluffiness and Love

it's been a while since I made an entry here. Foxxy hasn't gained any weight since her spay. But she has put on quite a bit of fuzz. She is even cuter now than she was when she came to us. It really is amazing what a lot of love will do. She has tons of toys now. She's quite the little chewer. We didn't want her getting clogged up with beefhides, which are her favorite, but the nylabones are starting to be chewed on. Initially she wouldn't chew them. She seemed to know that tehy were plastic. But as long as they smell like liver its alright I guess.

She's quite the healthy little fuzzball, and does not shiver like a lot of toy breeds do. She looooooves the snow, and her new sweater that I knited for her. Speaking of which it's supposed to snow alot. I will have to blaze a trail for her. the way to the dog park crosses through about an acre of park and anything over 4" she will be swamped.

The new pics are up so you caould see. she doesn't sit still much any more. She's more active than the chis she meets at the park and at pet socialization hour at Petco. I took her there. She wound up romping with the 13 week old lab Titan because none of the other dogs wanted to play as vigoorously. But they wore each other out and it was reallycute. Once she got rid of her energy, she was content to hang out with the smaller dogs. She has absolutely no fear and quite a lot of sass.