Sumo & Kimy

Last night we brough Sumo to visit Grandma's dog Kimy. Kimy is the little white yappie Maltese. To my surprise ... Sumo and Kimy had fun playing together. Kimy followed Sumo around in the backyard and waited for him to go poop and then the two went back into the house to play some more.

I was curious as to why they could play together without Kimy screaming and hiding. After some thought.........I realized............Sumo and Kimy play together because they actually "PLAY" unlike the dynamic between Chibi & Kimy. I have come to the conclusion that Chibi thinks that Kimy is a small animal that needs to be caught and eaten! or.............Chibi enjoys the taste of Maltese head in her mouth!

Doggie Vomit

Well this weekend we went to visit family in San Jose. The doggies were invited so we tried to prepare for the 2 hour car ride. Mom decided to brush the doggies before our trip so their wouldn't be an explosion of hair left at Auntie's house. Mom decided to hold off on bath's for both doggies to avoid the bath soap barfing.

About 3 hours before our journey to San Jose.........Chibi decides to go out and roll around in cat turd! For those of you who have never smelled cat turd.........Boy oh boy it's WONDERFUL! NOT! I've heard that cat turd is like doggie almond rocca for dogs.........ick! I guess it's the sweet smell the lures dogs to want to eat it. So............Chibi comes in smelling like cat turd (on her body and her breath).....Dad thinks we can just wipe her down.............WRONG!

So........bathtime here we come!Chibi's bath is the usual...her trying to jump out of the sink and wimper (at least she doesn't scream like mom's trying to kill her anymore). Next comes Sumo...this is his first bath....he just sits there and takes it like a good boy. Bathtime.......is now out of the way.

So in order to prepare for our trip....mom decides to put up all food. Dad takes both Chibi and Sumo for a walk to tire them out. So now we're off......Sumo sitting on his "king of the castle pillow" and Chibi laying on the blue blanket. We get about 20 minutes from the house and Sumo is farting up a storm! Oh boy what a wonderful start to our trip! We're about 20 minutes away from Auntie's and Chibi throws up on the blankets and Kiki's arm. Kiki is so into playing her video game she doesn't realize that there is Chibi throw up for awhile. Duh!

We finally get to Auntie's and both doggies are fine! I don't sense us taking any long trips for awhile!

Magical Weight Loss

wish we had before/after pictures to post, so everybody could see the difference. to summarzie for everybody, sumo has his first full furminator session. about 1/2 a dog's worth of hair was removed, and he went from looking big, poofy, fluffy, pudgy, round, rolling puppy to lean mean skinny puppy. the removal of the fuzz had a huge effect on his overall appearance!

Sleeping In!

ok, it looks like sumo is finally (FINALLY), sleeping in later. no more 3.30 or 4am...he's holding it until 6AMish now (yes, i know that's not really long or late, but it's at least close to wakeup time on work days!)

he's also really starting to lose his puppy coat. which means, big tufts of white cotton ball fur all over everything. we're also starting to notice that his doggie coat will have more splotches/areas of red/brown mixed into the cream.

also looks like chibi may be starting to blow her coat for the spring/summer, either that. then again, it is about bath time for her (which im sure she'll love :-p)

He's My SpEcIaL Boy!

ok, it takes a true doggie rocket scientist to get his face stuck to the door of his kennel twice. last night before bed, sumo was sitting i his kennel next to mom, he wasn't quite ready for bed, so he was fussing a little bit. just as mom told him not to bang on the kennel door anymore, and was telling him not to bite at the door again, sumo "super wonder genius dog", managed to get his face stuck to the door again.

of course i was in the shower and immedately heard the ear splitting screaming, which also woke chibi up from her sleep in her kennel. after we freed him and were getting ready for bed again, she then started to bang on her kennel to be let out. did she have to pee? did she have to poop? no, she had to get out, run over to sumo's kennel and make sure he was ok (and THEN once she found he was fine, she had to go poop) :-p

Doggie Training!

ok, this weekend we had our session with the doggie trainer (same trainer we used for chibi). we had some specific questions on tips, tricks, techniques to ensure 2 happy doggies, as we assumed there were unique challenges to raising a puppy when there is another puppy in the house.

we gleaned some good information, new strategies/techniques to deal with the 2 doggie issues we had, and learned to tell if we even had doggie/puppy issues between the 2. mostly we learned that chibi has been doing pretty well with the puppy, and the puppy HAS been the annoying one.

the best part was learning some fun competitive training methods, and also how to keep each pup happy when sharing toys, etc.

funny moment of the session:

• while the trainer was there, the doggies were on their best behavior (making us look like idiots for calling about yelling, screaming, fighting, bickering between the dogs)
• last 15 minutes, they finally started annoying each other and started to "do their thing"
• when the question came up from her, "any other issues you guys see with the dogs?", mom mentioned "sometimes, chibi tries to hump sumo"....
• just as that phrase came out of her mouth, chibi decided to hump sumo (as if she understood what mom said!)

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