Our first few days as new puppy parents...

Ok so I know my loyal readers are dying to know how things have been going these last 72 hours of having a brand new puppy, three cats and an adult dog.  Let me tell you the positives first, it won't take as long. Molly is a sweetheart, she is cuter in person than she is in pictures.  The whole family has done very well

Molly and I just minutes after we picked her up

pitching in and taking her outside.  As of today I would say she is 90% house broken which is a major kudos to our breeder Jeanie because it is obvious how much they worked with her.

Now let me tell you a few little nuggets of information that I had forgotten about puppies; They are little gremlins!  They are just like an eight month old baby and will find every, single, little piece of paper, lint, yarn, string, paperclip, shoelace, towel, or sock you haven't realized you needed to pick up and chew on it.  Then you have to try to open their jaws and reach in dodging the needle-like teeth to get whatever they have in their mouth.

My moccasins have laces, those are now chew toys and therefore need to be put up.  Sometimes, if the mood strikes her she chews on said laces while the moccasins are still on my feet. Precious. She likes hair and therefore when you are laying on the floor like say playing the Wii U Santa brought for Christmas, Molly will crawl up your back to bite you face and chew on your hair.  Or clothes she isn't picky.  (said person playing the Wii U could have been Anna, Allie or myself)

Puppies like to nap, I relish the times my little gremlin takes a nap because it means we don't have to constantly be following her to make sure we don't go potty in the house or find a new chew toy that is not on the approved chew toy list.  After a nap we want to play and play and play in insane bursts of energy. Yesterday during what I thought was going to be a nice long puppy nap ended up being just a five minutes power nap and back at the playing she was.  The best is when she falls asleep at 10:00 at night and needs to play at 10:15 p.m.  So far we are lucky to get to bed at 11:00 p.m.

Anna learned that we don't feed Gremlins after 9:00 p.m. (shut up I know that it is after midnight but this is my story) because puppy will have to pee and poop within 60 to 90 minutes of consuming food.  So luckily the night we learned that little lesson Anna didn't have school and we stayed up playing with Molly until we
1. Wore her out enough to finally go to sleep and;
2. Worked the poop down (what is with every one of my posts and saying the work poop?)

Allie and Molly sleeping downstairs on her first night

Molly has been sleeping the last three nights with Joe and I, right in between our heads...with Emma under the covers pressed up against Joe's legs and my cat Knoxville sleeping at my feet.  Molly has done really well so far in the bed.  The only down fall is the first day at 6:30 a.m Joe got up for work and took Molly out and then brought her back to me presumably to go back to sleep....NOPE it was "Let's bite Mommy's face and chew on her hair" time. So.....we got up.  This morning she slept until 7:30 and woke me in the same
manner.

The cats HATE her.  I know they will all get used to her eventually, Knoxville is warming up the most but (fat) Lily hisses at her.  Emma (our rat terrier) was growling at her, and now just ignores her.  Hopefully Emma will get excited about having a little sister and will start to play with her.

Honestly all of these little things are minor and are a good problem to have.  Everyone in the house have pitched in and have loved this new little bundle of joy.  When we got Emma, Joe and I worked outside the home and the care of our new puppy fell on just the two of us.  PLUS, Allie was only just over a year and Anna was three.  Getting a new baby when the girls are older MUCH better. We will look back someday and miss how little she was and how much trouble she used to get into.

Tell me about your new puppy stories!