Pupdate from the Crate: Mom wants A New Puppy

Good morning everyone!  I have to give you my Pupdate very early this morning because I need to spend the day cuddling with mom and making sure she gets enough attention today because I heard her her tell dad that if "this" is gonna keep up, she will need a new puppy, and I don't want that to happen.

I pretended to be asleep while they talked about it so I could figure out what all the fuss was about.  It was in the evening, when I have my relaxing time, and mom was saying parts of sentences that never got finished like "well, I didn't expect this..." and "so now it begins"......and "this isn't gonna work for me"..... And finally "this was not in THE plan"!

So dad just sat there, flipping channels and saying soft comforting words like "well honey....maybe it's the heat....yeah....I know...."  I wasn't really getting it until she said "well, it's gonna be a LONG summer if I have to spend every evening on the floor crammed under the desk with him!  This is supposed to be MY CUDDLE TIME (but the sound of her voice wasn't very cuddly-like)."  And Dad said "WELL...that will be special.  I can't wait to see how that works for you" and then Mom said that maybe she needs another puppy who wants to be cuddly on the sofa with her like I was before I growed up to be 5 months old.

And hey!  Guess what!  Now my other ear is going up!  This week we went to the dog store and I got to pick out toys and I picked out the best thing in the world, a hoof!  Yeah, it smells stinky to mom but I LOVE IT!  And I chew and chew until I am exhausted and I can't chew any more but now my other ear is standing up!  Yeah, Mom read an article that said maybe my stand up ears would be forever floppy unless I get enough calcium or if I didn't chew enough up to 6 months old.  So she wondered how that worked and I think I get it now.  You see, when I chew on that hoof like a mad dog, my jaws are so happy that they move my cheeks way back and that wiggles my ears a lot and I mean a lot!  You should see them go!  And today, when I woke up, boom!  My floppy ear was standing up!  Well, most of the time!  Hah! Cool eh?

So, I'm gonna go soon cause mom went to dog training class yesterday and has new instructions for me.  She says she has to do something called "stuff the dog" a couple of times today (and you know, when she told dad about this, he got all goofy and said "heh, heh, heh....I'LL show ya how to stuff 'the dog'...heh, heh, heh!" Which is not something puppies should be hearing but I'm getting used to it.)

Then, she told Dad our new training uses a clicker on me, and I hope that won't scare me or pinch me, and then I heard mom say she is going to cuddle me today if it kills her.....  I saw her looking at puppies on the Big Fluffy Dog Rescue page just a bit ago so I told her we needed to make our Pupdate and get off the IPad.

Sending you lots of love and hope you have the best Thursday ever!  Ardie, the only puppy Mom needs a for a good long time.....