I have a hard time with blogging...obviously. I love it, when I do it. Then another problem is that I'll be falling asleep thinking about what I want to write about and well....here I am and I can't remember what the heck it was! And then if i sit and stare at the key board I remember.... here it is.
A couple months ago we got a new puppy from a shelter. She's an Italian Greyhound/Min Pin mix, only 7lbs when we got her. Lyla. As a dog walker I knew that this little girl was gonna get socialized big time. We knew that we wanted to add a tiny dog to our 2 "big boy" pack but I didn't want to have that snippy, timid, afraid house dog. Then again that's not always in the cards either. Well I played my cards and got super lucky. Lyla fit right in with all the new dogs, big and small. Her meet and greet behavior was fantastic as well as her play behavior. Two thumbs up! This girl is part of my packs!
Fast forward to May 5th. Into the vet to get spayed and to have her back dew claws off. Here we are on May 13th and Lyla has been on "low activity" since then. And if by low activity, I mean zipping around the house playing with the boys like a crazy girl. When I'd let her out for potty breaks she fly around in fast circles then head to a corner of the yard, start digging frantically then bounce back and forth. When I'd deter her from the digging she continued the crazy circles, throwing sticks into the air. Currently (at 9:30pm) she is flying around the house, looking for the best corner to hide her toys in....all with a huge cone on her head. None of this whacky behavior presented itself prior to bed rest.
Yes it's true, exercise is the key to balanced behavior. Well at least for a 6 month old puppy.
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