mid-July, about to meet

Hi, I'm Boris. I'm one of the white puppies in the picture. I live in Houston with my mom, dad, and human mom and dad. I am about 5 weeks old. I still haven't met the fantastic wonderful people I am going to live with but I was reading human mom's e-mail and I see we are going to meet this weekend. Then in two more weeks I am going to go home with them.

I also read that my new mom and dad had a 13-year old dog who died of a pituitary tumor (what the heck that is I don't know and don't want to know) and now they are very homesick for another dog. I'm sure their other dog Bella was very fun and I am sorry I don't get to play with her. i wonder if she was as good at fetch as I am going to be.

I am very glad that one of my brothers, Otto, is going to move with me.

first meeting

I met my new human dad today. We hit it off right away. My old human mom wasn't even going to bring me out because i have a pinkish nose instead of a black one (my new human mom didn't know how handsome pinkish noses are I guess). But when my new human dad saw me (I'm the biggest one!) he loved me right away.

I still get to stay with my old human mom and dad and my dog mom for 3 more weeks.

only 2 more days

I get to go home with my new mom and dad in 2 days! i wonder if they are more excited than I am.

I moved today

Yesterday i was living in Houston, but now i live in College Station. It seems pretty good so far. I have a really great back yard with a porch and i can use Bella's old ramp to get up and down. i'm a little too little to get up and down easily. Well I can launch myself down just fine but the getting back up is hard.
They gave me a shampoo and a haircut this morning so i look my absolute most handsome in this picture.
On the ride here i just sat in a box in the back seat of a car and watched all the trucks go by. We stopped at a fruit stand so Otto and I could pee, and then we stopped at a gas station so Otto and I could get a drink.
Otto kept trying to get out of the box and then falling on me. i don't know what he was trying to see. i could see everything just fine from in the box.

9 weeks old today

well, life here is OK but I don't get to do whatever I want. They won't let me chew on the baseboards, pee in the house, or worst of all hump their legs. When I do that they get really mad and hold me on my back and look me straight in the eye. it is not very much fun. And I love them so much I want to hump their legs! Oh well, they do let me hump Otto.
We went to meet the doctor on Monday and she was very nice. She did talk them into giving me a fresh parvo shot even though we had them on Friday.
They started walking us on leashes yesterday and that is way awesome because all up and down the street it smells very interesting. Dogs bark at us from inside their houses but we don't care, they don't scare us.
We got our heartworm medicine yesterday; mine was in peanut butter but Otto wouldn't eat his in peanut butter, so then we both got a wad of mozzarella cheese. Hey Otto, you da man!

first visit to SA

yesterday I got to ride to San Antonio in my new crate. i got too big for my first one. My new crate doesn't have as many windows so I don't like it.
but when we got here the first thing I saw was Otto at the top of some "stairs"! I didn't know about stairs but Otto showed me how to use them. Then Otto and I had to reset the rules about who humps whom---he forgot I am the big brother so I reminded him pronto. Then we got down to playing like before, wild untamed wrestling. Otto has a Kong ball! I gotta get one!
Anyway there are plenty of places to run outside here, Otto showed me those too.

we went to school

We went to the school today where new Mom teaches. it is a big school with big buildings and big spaces and pecan trees and a bell tower. A guy was walking around while we were there and he gave us a tour. He didn't realize that me and Otto are dogs and he kept showing us things that dogs don't usually get to see like the chapel. Well we were behaving like angels so maybe that's why. New Mom could tell we were really hot so when we were getting the tour of the brothers' cemetary and she found a water spigot she let it run for us to have a drink. we didn't care that it was getting all over our heads. when we got back to the house new Mom and new Dad gave us baths, because Otto had made his feet all muddy when he was drinking from a big mud puddle.
maybe next weekend we can go to the school where new Dad teaches. i heard that it is way bigger.

i was the boss this weekend

see when I am at Otto's house then he is the boss but when he comes to my house then I am the boss. Isn't it that way with people too? Otto came to my house this weekend so I got to pester him every time he wanted a toy or wanted to sleep. When he got new Mom's bra off the bed I got to take it away from him. Well, I tried to take it away from him. He didn't completely go along with the boss thing.

we went to the groomer on Saturday and just after she started on me she got an important phone call and had to leave. So one of my feet is shaved and the rest of me is fluffy as usual. It is mortifying.

we got to go to new Dad's lab today. We got to walk around the hallway and look out the windows. but outside it was too hot to have any fun. We just tried to go to the cafeteria for a Coke but it was locked.

Oh a pretty girl came to live with us on Wednesday. she came from Minnesota. She likes me the best.

Otto and new Mom are here!

Yay, Otto came to visit! We can't play hard enough! We collapse from time to time but then we have to go at it again. We play and play, and chase each other and wrestle, and oh yeah, we are okay with taking turns humping.
I got a haircut this week and eileen didn't like it. I have that poofy head pompom that groomers give to poodles. i can't talk yet so i couldn't tell the groomer that Eileen wouldn't like a head pompom.
I learned that if I bark in the back yard the people let me into the house faster. One time today some guys came and started up their lawn mowers in my yard. why are strange guys letting themselves into my back yard and starting up their lawn mowers? i wanted to know about that so I kept asking and asking but no one explained it to me.
I chewed apart my new harness. New Dad sprayed it all over with bitter apple which isn't too bad at all.

I love everyone

If I get to meet you I will love you. I love everyone. I cuddle with everyone. I will come up to you and rest my head in your lap. My head is higher than it used to be (lots higher) so this is getting easier every day. I will look at you soulfully and you will not be able to resist my spell.

But then Otto will come charging up and bite me and we will be off in a tizzy of activity.