January 26th 2007 1:28 pm
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My life has been so busy and full of traveling to and from seattle so that me and mom can help out my sister Chandra with her new baby Gavin. And i have been spending so much time with my daughter Chalita that we have actually started to play with each other again....
Watching my sister and mom with Gavin has brought a flood of memories back to me from Chalita's younger years. Most of the memories are sweet and happy,,,,,that is until she hit the dreaded teenage years!
Because Chalita was so tiny and frail as a baby, i made her siblings play extra gentle with her so they wouldnt hurt her. She was not the runt, but the runt was a fiesty little thing who was built more stout than Chalita and there for Runtski could play hard and she could take some rough housing with her brothers who were at least 3 times her and Chalita's sizes.
I think that maybe i was a little too gentle and was a little too over~protective of her little self. Maybe thats the reason that later in life she decided that she was the boss of EVERY PUP and EVERY HUMAN!
Oh how i miss the days when she was a young pup who wanted only love, affection, food and to play with her momma Rosa. I dont know how or when exactly it happened that she changed and decided that she wanted to be in charge, but it happened. It used to only be ME that got away with growling and snapping at her or one of her siblings for walking to close to me while i was burrowed under the covers on mom and dads bed. (well once i came to live with them, the bed then belonged to mom dad and ME! and eventually to chalita as well...before she moved out of our house and into Chandra's house)
But one day when it was time for me to take a nap, up the stairs i went and as i started walking to the head of the bed to get under the covers, i was scared silly when from under the covers came a growl and snapping of a very tiny set of teeth! Well i wasnt going to stand for any of that non sense, I let her know right away that attitude was not acceptable.
Unfortunatley she didnt seem to care that i was reminding her just who the mom was and who the alpha dog of this pack is!
That little brat decided it really made her much angrier when i would bark the rules at her, and she actually started to challenge me. I let it go most of the time but i would do little things to let her know she was NOT the boss.
The little reminders seemed to work ok for awhile but then one day she got so mad when i was barking the rules, she attacked me !!!!
Her little mouth was snarled up with her teeth that were not even big enough to bite through a peice of cheese cut thicker than 1/16 of an inch! But that was not stopping her. She came at me over and over again and even though it didnt hurt me, it sure made me mad, i warned her over and over again to stop before i got REALLY mad. About the time i went for her mom came along and grabbed me up and still that little creep was growling snarling and trying to jump up high enough to bite me while in the arms of mom!
Wow that just brought back some memories!
I have never had to deal with any of my pups ever challenging my authority or my rank of Alpha dog because usually by the time they are 2 months old they are heading out the door with their new human mom's and dad's . Then even though we see each other several times throughout their lives, we dont fight when we do see each other. I am just always so thrilled to see my children, i immediatley start out by washing their faces, that always works to sooth the ones who have almost forgotten who i am. Once i wash their faces they immediatley settle down and remember that i gave them life and mom and dad helped to raise them and keep them socialized for their new lives with the families they would eventually live their lives with.
I know mom says i get to have one more litter this spring and i am really excited and looking forward to that. I also heard mom say that we are going to keep one of the puppies ---after remembering what happened with Chalita, i am wondering if I am really all that excited about letting one of the pups continue to live in my house! I mean dont get me wrong, i love nothing more than hearing a knock on the door and then seeing one of my pups once the door opens...but i always know they are going to go away to their own houses before the day is done.
I am sure i will change my mind once the pups are born and mom lets me know which one is going to stay with us forever. I do know that mom always picks the ones that are sweet natured like me and the ones who love to follow her around and sleep all snugggled up next to her in the bed.....And one more thing, I usually have a little bit to do with which one is her favorite, because the one who is labled "momma's girl or momma's boy, is usually the one she picks to stay with us. Only thing is,,the last couple she planned to keep, she ended up letting them go to their own homes. The last litter we were keeping my favorite pup, who was also chandra's favorite one too. He was called Rascal while he lived with us, he was the blonde one. He was actually friends with lots of you dogsters for quite sometime.
Then one day one of the litter mates new momma called and asked if she would be willing to sell him to them so that Crash could have his brother to play with. Well since Luis another litter mate lived with her sister inlaw a couple doors down, mom figured he would be so happy living with his brother and getting to spend lots of time with his other brother, so mom let him go, now his name is Freddie and we know he is very happy living with his family.
Here is his brother Crash's dogster page,
http://www.dogster.com/dogs/430046/sniff
so far Freddie doesnt have his own page but you can go visit Crash, invite him to be friends with you and tell him we are all waiting for Freddie to have a page on dogster too!
Have a growlin great day!
I do miss you all so very much. I am glad mom let me use the computer today so i could write in my diary! My paws are weel tired of tapping the keys now though. Hope your all doing great!
Pmail me, I will always answer my mail!
Rosa
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