Happy One Month with Us, Macy!

(I’m about 12 days late on this!)

The past month has completely gotten away from us between the dogs and the Christmas hustle and bustle. It’s hard to believe we’ve already had Macy for a month! Since I’ve been bad about blogging about her, I’ll get you up to speed -

Macy’s kennel cough was a total mess for about 4-5 days after we got her. She was throwing up EVERYWHERE. About the 4th day we had her, she threw up over a dozen times just in the time it took for us to get ready for work. Definitely not the best way to start things out, especially mixed with her not being house-broken. Within a week and a half, she was at the vet one all day because she decided to jump up on the kitchen counter and eat 5 of my raw biscuits that were waiting to go in the oven. Let’s just say that dough can rise in the stomach, and I was a little stressed out! Thankfully, it turned out to be nothing. It has since been a whirlwind of two energetic dogs in the house. Macy and Lily play together great (minus a few rare fights, which we’re still trying to figure out and get over), and Macy loves rawhides and she loves to take Lily’s rawhide when she walks away from it (Lily doesn’t seem to mind!). She’s pretty quiet for the most part. For the longest time, we couldn’t even really get her to smile and she seemed sad, but I think we’re over most of that now. She does get carsick a lot (Christmas was not fun when she threw up within 20 minutes all over her part of the backseat!), and she has some separation anxiety issues when we leave her in her crate (to the point that she escaped from it Christmas eve!). We’re still working through that, but other than those issues, things are going great. Both of them started doggie training classes two weeks ago, and have picked up quite a bit. Now I’m just stressed about boarding her at the vet when we’re gone in a few days – hopefully she can get through without barking all night long!

Here are a few new photos – more to come soon!

We went there...

We brought home Macy from the animal shelter yesterday. We've been casually looking for a second dog for about a month now, and actually went to look at a border collie yesterday, but Macy's little melt-your-heart eyes just had me smitten. She's about one year, a shepherd mix (who can say no to shepherds?!), a little bigger than Lily, and quite the girly-girl. We know she was owned (and apparently she slept on the bed - we learned that quickly after she jumped up twice and got all comfortable!), but not much more than that. After we interacted with her for awhile outside, we went home and brought Lily to the shelter. No growling, just sniffing and curiosity. Much better than a lot of other dogs upon first meeting.

Macy has kennel cough right now, so we're trying to keep her calm and trying to get her to eat a little (she's thin as can be!). Lily has had a couple of territory issues with her inside the house, resulting in some fights, but we're keeping an eye on them and they are so far really good outside by themselves.

Eric's been good about introducing them the right way (we stood outside in the rain last night for 20 minutes in the backyard, too!), and making sure we don't show favor to one over the other (although, he's been getting on to me when I try and cuddle with little Mace with Lily around ;). We're crossing our fingers that things continue to get better and work out!

Never Doubt a Lily Dog...

...Because she'll just be capable of doing stuff like this:

It was a little cooler today so I put Lily's bed outside on the porch in her doghouse (thankfully, her old, getting-kinda-gross bed) since we're still waiting on our porch heater to get here. That is what we come home to. Bye bye bed. And faucet insulator caps. And foam piping on the air conditioner (for the 2nd time with a 2nd fence around it).

You can't get mad at the girl because what else is she supposed to do while we're gone 10 hours for 5 days out of the week? Oh, if only she knew how many thousands of dollars we've already spent on things for her... *sigh*