Growing Pains

I am 35 pounds today. This is the day the vet estimates that I turn 15 weeks and I am one fast-growing puppy. According to the home scale, I have gained 9 pounds in the not-even three weeks I've been here.

It's not easy being a puppy that's growing by the minute. I used to sleep through the night pretty well but now I wake up in the wee hours to eat more because i'm so hungry! I eat plenty during the day but my tummy is only so big and I just need a lot of food right now, ok? Then of course I have to wake up more to go out and go to the bathroom more. It comes with the territory I guess.

Maybe I am just in a growth spurt and it will even out a little (that's what my humans are hoping!). People don't realize I'm still just a baby. Even in the puppy play class they wanted to put me with the bigger puppies until they found out I was so young.

Another thing with all this growing is that it's causing puppy narcolepsy. My human took me to an Animal Rights conference over the weekend and I LOVED meeting all the people there - there were hundreds of animal lovers who all wanted to say hi to me! It was pretty awesome. But the narcolepsy kept kicking in. I fell asleep behind the exhibit table in a room of hundreds of people, against the wall in there, under the exhibit table (sometimes with just my ear or nose or paw sticking out -- I didn't want to totally miss the action, I was just sleepy!), over and over again. Then for the formal banquet at night, I slept under the table for the entire four hours. The other people at the table didn't even know there was a puppy under there. I still have my crazy puppy moods and I love to be part of the action, but I need a lot of food and sleep!

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