My New Home

Hello everyone! It’s been a very tiring time for me recently but I have finally found the time to send you all my first official update! Mummy and daddy have had me for four weeks now and I love them a lot. The weather has been very sunny and I have spent a lot of time sun-bathing on the deck…

The deck is also a great place to chase my chew toys and deposit the biggest poops and wee’s that I can make. Mummy and daddy have been training me to go to the toilet outside by keeping me in my crate during the day. My puppy trainer, Gina, comes to play with me every day, three times a day, but I always save the best presents for when mummy and daddy get home. That way they can see what a good boy I am being!

Ben the puppy trainer came round two weeks ago and now I know my name is Milo. I have been diligently practicing my commands like “fetch”, “bring it”, “sit” and “come”. Mummy and daddy get very excited and make all sorts of silly noises when I do them well. I get lots of treats too! They are trying to teach me “leave it” and “off” but I don’t think I want them to think I know all the commands already, so I pretend not to know those ones. I have stopped eating daddy’s hands though because I was very naughty once and got a big telling-off. I kept chewing the wood in the log-holder too until daddy took it away. I told him that won’t matter because I will just chew the holder itself instead!

We all play with my toys a lot….I have so many of them! Furry ones, squeaky ones, tug ropes, balls. Sometimes I have to run away fast with them because mummy and daddy play with them too much. Daddy bought me a Frisbee but we haven’t played with it yet – he says I am still too small for it. One of my favourite toys is my big orange Wubba. It is pretty big so I don’t know why daddy thinks that I would have an issue with the Frisbee. I think it’s just another one of my toys that he wants to keep for himself!

I have also been taking mummy and daddy for lots of walks. We went on a 4 mile hike at the weekend. I also take mummy for a walk every evening because daddy is busy studying for some grown-up exams. Here’s me and mummy after one of our walks – doesn’t she look tired!

I have just had my second set of puppy shots. Only one more set to go. The vet said I was very good and growing healthily. I have grown from 15lbs to 28lbs in the last 4 weeks! I have very big paws so everyone says I will be a big strong dog when I grow up. Mummy and daddy have a fun weekend planned for us. They are taking me to meet some new friends at the ‘Puppy Power Social Hour’ at the local dog camp. They are also going to take me to something called a ‘beach’ because I like playing in the sand. It’s bound to be fun because a couple of weeks ago they took me to a place called ‘Tahoe” and I played in ‘snow’. It was great fun – I could eat it all, apart from the yellow snow!

Next Monday, mummy and I start group puppy school. I hope mummy behaves and doesn’t embarrass me… Anyway, I have to go and have a lie down after all this writing. I also mustn’t let mummy and daddy catch me at the computer – I got a big telling off for that the other day too. Well, how was I supposed know the keyboard wasn’t a chew toy??!!

A big lick to you!
Milo
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