A note from a broad

It has been a week of mixed emotions here. When we curtailed our Dogstostay activities because of Kiva and her pups we always assumed their leaving date would be the weekend of 9th/10th October 1-2 days short of their eight week birthday.

We already had Taavi and Jaaka due back with us for half term holidays (bizarre they should be last out, first in) but we were thought our timings would allow us five days with our pack of two, a bit of time for loving, fussing and regrouping…

Well what happens when your new puppy owners have a significant wedding anniversary (am I allowed to say 30?) which involves a most fantastic holiday cruising around Canada and the North East coast of the USA

What it means is that you get to keep one puppy for an extra 9 days which is great in itself and then you have a few sleepless nights before the posse returns to wonder how it’s all going to work….. sleeping, eating, breathing notwithstanding (just me obviously, because Simon is as cool as a cucumber at this point while I’m chewing off what nails I have left)

All of you that have watched Miika a.k.a. Dylan know he’s been the apple of Simon's eye from day one, and of course we all guessed he would run rings around the elders, well didn’t he just!

Taavi and Jaaka were fantastic with the pup from the moment they arrived, they didn’t even really mind that Alison coo’ed and billed and tried to make him fit in the exceptionally large handbag she brought with her ;) They accepted the tail tugging, mane hanging and to watch this mini-pack going on in our kitchen was a joy.

Since Flo left on the Sunday, Dylan had spent his nights with Kiva and Mylo having the complete run of the kitchen. When the two boys arrived we thought it might be prudent to have him in his pen with Kiva close by while Taavi and Jaaka had their normal run of kitchen/lobby/yard.

Mylo would be upstairs with us, lapp(y)ing up the attention and peace would prevail… or not, Dylan didn’t want to be confined and yes he soon alerted us to that fact! So having wrapped us around his little fluffy tan paw, we let him loose in the kitchen with everyone else, and THEN there was peace. Not a murmur from any of them, back to puppy times and waking them all up to make sure they were awake….

We only had four nights with the 5 of them but time and time again Taavi and Jaaka showed the softness of nature of a Lappy, not a grumble from either of them and always ready for playing with the puppy, I did wonder about all males together but I needn’t have worried at all.

It’s all been a bit quiet (in lappy speak) since Tuesday, the pack of 4 have reformed, we are now able to take longer walks without rushing back for the pup so everyone is more chilled and as always we’re having the most wonderful time looking after the most wonderful dogs….. Lappy days indeed