Puppy Update

Last week, I told you how I got a puppy and how excited I was to have her. Well it’s been a week and I’ve lived with her. I have found that she is very, very annoying.

She tries to eat everything! She eats shoes (somehow only mine), paper, human food, clothes, and even incense. Shelly cannot be left in a room alone without her getting into something. She tries to jump up and get anything that is sitting on the couches or ottoman. Since she is really little, she can’t get up onto the couches. It’s kind of funny to watch her struggle.  She tries to bite the corner of the couch that I usually sit on every time she walks by it. You cannot leave anything alone or she will run somewhere with it and rip it apart. Luckily I have managed to catch her before she has done any real damage to anything. Her favorite thing to eat is the floor plant that is next to the the couch. She has completely destroyed one of the branches of it. Even if you push her away from it, she goes to the other side to get at it. I really hope that in the future when she is older she won’t try to eat everything in sight.

She’s a biter. She tries to bite everything. She has bitten my toes, my legs, my stomach, my fingers and even my lip. I really hope it is because she is teething and that it won’t happen in the future. She’ll try to bite your hands when you try to pet her. If you are sitting with your toes just over the edge of the couch she will try and bite your toes (well at least she does to me). We have bought her several teething toys and they’ve helped only a little. It has gotten to the point where we give her “time-outs”, where we stick her in her crate until she calms down. It only works sometimes. Most times, if the “time-out” doesn’t work, we just take her out on a walk to hopefully get rid of most of her energy. The problem with the walks is that she still can’t really walk on her leash. The walks consist of me walking ahead of my mom so that Shelly will walk after me, and even that doesn’t work all the time because Shelly gets distracted really easily.

I guess she isn’t all that bad. She’s so cute with her little uni-brow and her beard.  She doesn’t really have a uni-brow and beard, but because of the way her hair is cut, it makes it look like that. It’s so cute when she yawns. You can see her little pink tongue, her little teeth that aren’t fully grown, and she makes a little squeaky noise. Sometimes, she sort of sounds like a guinea pig. When you get home from anywhere or come downstairs in the morning, she gets all excited and she starts doing this cute whine/bark. Shelly has only barked once and it was in front of me, so my family doesn’t believe that she can bark.

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