Puppies Galore!

Yesterday I posted a bit about my Sister and her Husband and My Mom and Dad BOTH adopting rescue dogs!  Well, since there has been so much Puppy Activity in our families lately I decided to dedicate an entire post to them.

This first photo is from the Rescue's Facebook Page.  My sister Megan with Atlas and My Dad with Lexi.  Atlas is a Beagle/Pointer Mix and Lexi is a Retriever/Collie Mix.  I think Lexi - if not both dogs - might have a bit of Jack Russell as well.  They are both adorable.  They were in the same foster home so they are buddies!  I'm so happy they were able to go to my parents and my sister so they can still see each other every once and a while.  We think Atlas is a few weeks older than Lexi.  So far...Atlas weighs 15 pounds and Lexi weighs 7 pounds.

Sunday night I was able to spend a little time with them.  My sister said they had been taking Atlas all over the place with them in the car over the weekend.  I guess he LOVES car rides!  He also gets along with other dogs - not just Lexi - which is good! 

My mom told me that Lexi is a good walker...which is great because my dad has been wanting a 'walking buddy'. 

I also found out that Atlas has an extra 'thumb' or a 'dewclaw' on each back foot.  The one is completely detached and the other does have partial bone.  They are going to remove them when they get him fixed because they will cause problems down the road, I guess.  My sister didn't want to do it but both the shelter and 2 vets told her to.

Lexi LOVES Bernie's Cat Bed.  So far...Bernie is tolerant.  Of course, Lexi has her own pillow bed and crate area which she enjoys, as well.

In other Doggy News...my Brother-In-Law is still doing good with his puppy Blue.  He's getting pretty big!  His coloring is amazing, too!  It's getting pretty defined.  I'm told he LOVES to be in the enclosed backyard and likes to run around.  He also likes being inside, tho, too!

His eyes look so sad in the photos but Mike says he's a VERY happy dog!  He says he loves to hold things in his mouth, tho.  He doesn't really eat them just likes to have them hang out of his mouth...as you can see in this one photo.  It's a Bark Chip.

 As far as our Dogs go - things have been going pretty good, I guess!  Paco has calmed down a little bit in the evenings which is nice...he was a little nuts for a while and sometimes I would have to play ball with him for HOURS which I enjoy but I also have things I have to get done around the house, too, so I'm glad he's been a bit lazier or at least had his 'fill' of playtime within an hour instead of HOURS lately.  I had to laugh over the weekend, I bought a new shirt and my husband said I looked like a 'prisoner'...it having stripes and all.  Then I put Paco's shirt on without noticing that it was much like mine.  My husband told us to pose for a pic and here you have it!  Apparently we are bop-see-twins!

Warning! Cute Puppies Ahead...

This past weekend we spend quite a bit of time at 'camp'.  My husband's family has almost 120 acres of land in the woods and a bunch of us have standing campers planted in the middle of nature!   My husband's cousin and her husband's 2 dogs BOTH had puppies within a week of each other!  Between the two of them they had 17 that 'made it' and 7 that didn't.  Could you imagine TWO DOZEN puppies!  Oh my goodness!  These two adorable ones were at camp for a while on Saturday.  They fell asleep like this under one of the 4 wheelers someone had up there.  Camp is not a stranger to kids AND furkids visiting so everyone knows to proceed the camping area with extreme caution.

Check this one out!  He seriously feel asleep like this on Jodi's lap!  So cute!  Wendy knows a lot of people and thankfully all of them have homes lined-up.  We would have taken one if we didn't already have 3 of them.  Plus these kiddos are Lab/Retriever Mixes and are going to be much larger than we are used to in our home of vertically challenged puppers!

BUT...guess who DID take one home!?  My Borther In Law Mike!  On Sunday they brought three of them to camp and the one snuggled up to Mike right away and stayed right with him the whole time!  I found an old sweater in the camper and his new puppy claimed it right away!  Mike has decided to name him "Blue".  For various reasons, really, but it stems from an inside joke of our love for the movie "Old School" with Will Ferrell.  That night Dale and I went home and grabbed a few toys from our stash (ones that we were hiding from our 'kids' because they were too fragile) as well as a leash, collar, and X-Pen...and brought it back for him to take home.  Right away I text messaged him yesterday to see how Blue did overnight and he did really well and him and Junior (his adult cat) and the new addition are already bonding well!  It's perfect because Mike has a nice sided yard that is also enclosed for Blue to run and play when he gets a little older.  Something that we lack at our house.  I'm so happy for him and know he's already 'attached'.