After being sad about Lucy's state yesterday, I decided to start making it better. What were things to cease the "shut down"?, I wondered. We went through the Chic-Fil-A drive thru. Lucy picked her head up and ate some chicken nuggets. We rode around in a shopping cart, just like "old times". I bought her a new harness and a little coat at Petco. When we got back home, I put the harness on her, and made her go for a walk. She was terrified and hated it. I pulled her along, one teeny step at a time. We made it to the stop sign near our house and then returned home. What was once was a five minute walk, took over twenty. But we did it. We have practiced walking about inside, from the front door to her dog bed. We keep practicing walking. She is made to walk herself to the food bowl, where she will now eat. She can't remember any of the routes that we have practiced. But the good new is that she has ceased the shut down.
I finished my sweater for Molly. She is always looking for a warm spot in the house, so this cotton summer sweater should help her stay warm. I have construction notes on my sweater on Ravelry. If you are also a member of the knitting website Ravelry, my user name is Churlygirl, so look me up and say, "hello".
Originally, we thought we would be getting an older, four pound dog and her litter mate from North Carolina. The adoption fell through due to scheduling problems. She and her sister would be available a few weeks apart, and the agency would not hold one dog until the second one was ready. We didn't want to make two separate 8 hour round-trips. Although, we were considering it when Molly and Lucy became available locally at Richmond Animal League. While we were applying for the other four pound dog, I knitted a sweater for her. It was hard to find a teeny dog sweater pattern, but there was a free pattern offered on a blog.
When Molly, my six pound dog arrived home, I tried the sweater on for size. It was too small. That's how it goes, when you jump the gun. So I mailed my sweater to Connie, the designer of the sweater pattern. Her teeny dog, Winnie, is sooo cute. Connie's blog, Hartwood Roses featured a nice post regarding our little gift to Winnie. Check it out, the photographs of her roses and historic home are beautiful. My blue "adjusted" sweater for Molly is coming along nicely. It has an extra long turtleneck and deeper chest to accommodate her ferret physique. It should be ready in the next few days. I'm knitting a sweater for Molly. I found an easy pattern from fellow blogger Hartwood Roses. She needs something a little larger and longer than the original dimensions, so we are trying it on as I make adjustments. The lower picture captures her mood perfectly.
I like to keep my newly adopted dogs at home for their first two weeks or so. I like to get our routine going before we venture into the public. But a storm was coming, and the girls did great at the Vet's office, so we went shopping for raincoats. We visited Fido Park Avenue, a boutique for little dogs. Their inventory was great, and as I rambled, looking at things other than raincoats, I was told to focus. I was specifically told by my husband that we were NOT there to shop for sombreros. So we applied ourselves, shopped quickly for some raincoats and returned home. The grass was getting long. I was able to cut enough of the yard to allow for a convenient pee-pee patch before the rain began to pour. There is nothing more upsetting for little dogs that a bathroom trip ruined with long, wet grass. Unless it is long, wet, cold grass. Their new jackets were put to immediate use. I like these raincoats because they fasten with velcro. They can go on quickly and the fit can be adjusted if they need to be layered over a sweater. They store folded inside the pocket on the back. It converts into a little pouch that can snap onto a leash. |
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