Hide and seek and new fosters!

We played hide and seek tonight with the dogs. What a riot! I hid in an obvious spot and called the dogs. When they found me, I gave them a treat. Meanwhile, one of my kids found a hiding spot. He called the dogs. When they found him, he gave them a treat. I changed my spot, called the dogs and they ran right past me to my previous hiding spot. Then they ran back to my son. Then they ran right past me. So I gave them a little vocal clue. Finally, they found me.

This was so much fun and a great exercise to work on recall. My kids loved it too.


Oh, and the big news is that we have a new foster family of dogs. Milly joined us a few days ago with 4 one-day old pups. She's a fox terrier, just 9 pounds. All of the cats I've owned have been bigger than that. Her puppies are between 6 ounces and 11 ounces! My last puppy litter were 3 weeks old when we got them and weighed between 3 and 5 pounds. What a difference.

Milly is awesome. She gave birth on the transport from her previous shelter. Who knows what she'd been through before that. But she's very loving and social with us. She lets us pet her and touch her pups. She does all of her business outside. She's taking great care of her babies. Like my friend says, they always tell their story eventually. I think hers included a loving home and family with kids and probably a few litters before this one.


The babies look like guinea pigs. Or aliens. Their eyes and ears are not open yet. Their feet are pink and opaque. Their bellies are huge. I've never seen anything so recently born. Except for my kids of course, and they were much more formed.

This is fun.