Italian Greyhound Meet ups

At the weekend Oliver and I went in to London to meet up with some other Italian Greyhounds at Battersea Park. We met up with the lovely Clara and Nino and had a lovely long walk in the park. Oliver got on very well with Nino and it was nice to talk to Clara about having an Italian greyhound, Oliver does a lot of the same things as Nino does so I know a lot of his little ways are just him being an Italian boy. He's so different to Sophie and still very much a little baby who finds some things very worrying. Next time it'll be Sophies turn for a day out, but only if she promises not to chase the bicycles!!!

Our Holiday

We've been very busy the last couple of months, Oliver's growing up to be a lovely little boy and Sophie's finally beginning to get the potty training at night under control. We've been away on holiday and the dogs came too, Haven allow the dogs in their chalets and we had a lovely time at the beach in North Somerset. The dogs loved running on the beach when there was no one around and had a great time eating seaweed. We also took them on a stream train to Minehead which they seems to enjoy.

A New Addition

Been a while since our last blog and I've been very busy with our new little Italian boy. He's been with us now for 5 weeks and is settling in nicely and his name is Oliver. 

Sophie hated him first and they fought constantly but in the last 2 weeks they have become very friendly and seem to miss each other if one is not around. He's also much better at the toilet training than sophie was at his age and has shown her that it's ok to pee on the grass and when you go out on a walk. But Oliver still has issues about the walking outside bit, I bought him a different lead and collar which seems to have helped.

A few piccys of our new little handsome man.

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A sad day

We had to let our lovely greyhound poppy go off to rainbow bridge this afternoon. We will all miss her dreadfully and poor Sophie keeps looking around for her big playmate. She was a lovely dog to have in our lives and we were very happy to let her live out her retirement on our sofa or stretched out in the sun by the patio doors in the lounge, which was her favourite place to be. I will miss her big soft eyes as she gazed at you while having her ears scratched, and the way she would bound out into the garden expecting to find something to chase. 

Rest in peace my lovely girl xxxx

Growing Up

Sophies now nearly 5 months old and she's definitely now part of the family. She's been doing very well on the potty training front and hasn't wee'd on the floor for about 3 weeks now. We've learnt to go to the back door to go out and wee but not to poo, she still prefers to do that in her big crate on the paper, which I dont mind as when we are both at work she has to use the paper even though she's only left for 3 hr stints, hopefully she will learnt to hold it for longer soon.

This evening she managed to lose her first baby tooth, which was quite scary as at the time we were having a nice chew on her bone and then she started to look like she was choking on something. We finally managed to get it out of her mouth and found it was one of her back molars. Think it might be time to introduce a toothbrush to her soon. 

At the weekend she went on her first geocaching mission and had a lovely long walk in the country. We've noticed that she is much calmed in the evenings if she's had a nice long walk, hopefully we can do that most days now the weather has improved and she now likes to go out.

I'm off to crufts on the 6th of march to see lots of lovely Italian Greyhounds and of course to do some shopping for the little weed who keeps on growing out of her coats, any excuse to spoil her.

We've also booked a summer holiday in Somerset in August with Haven holidays who welcome dogs at their holiday parks, so we are all going to the beach.

Off to the new puppy training class tomorrow night with a lovely lady who seems to understand small dogs, I hope Sophie will co-operate and listen to the commands and not just stand there looking cute!

Snow

Sophie had her first experience of the cold white fluffy stuff this morning, she spent a lot of the time looking out of the window watching the snowflakes, We let her out in the front garden and she bolted back in as soon as her feet touched the ground. She was a little more adventurous in the back garden with daddy. Bounced about in the quite deep snow for a dog who is only 9" tall. Had just enough time to get some photo's of her.

But mummy I'm gorgeous

But can be a naughty little thing..............She's now decided that coming to the office is a good place to be very naughty, jump on mummy's desk, play with her keyboard, emptying the tissue box was great fun. So she will have to stay at home on the days we are both working.  She also seems to have realized that she can bark, which is quite funny as she's so small but tried to make a big scary noise.

Took a lovely photo of her this evening, she now 13 weeks old.