EARLY A.M.s HERE

Well, all week long Piper and Margaret have been letting us know when they want to get up. This can be the down side (if any!) of raising puppies. Normal time is 4:30 a.m. (I work in Pittsburgh at 6:30 a.m., hence the ungodly hour). This week they have decided that 3:30 a.m. is the time they choose to get up. Try as I might, it's still 3:30 a.m. to them. So...we need a new strategy. I have a few up my sleeve, the first being to FINISH the kennels!!! They can't go to bed later, because then they'd be up after I went to bed! Otherwise, they are sooooooooooo funny! The up side of having puppies (there are many in my book) are their antics and watching them grow with individual preferences and development. Latley Margaret has taken to hunting for some piece of us to carry, sofa throws or pillows, for example. Piper now decides that when she is done eating in the kitchen with the other half of our crew it's her duty to check her email with my husband. lol Then she waits for Mai, the terminally slow eater, to finish eating before she'll go out again voluntarily. She's the social worker in the family...so thoughtful.

Wren is about mid-cycle now in her heat, so we watch her like a hawk in the yard. Dickens is still serenading her when he can.

Well after a few days of experimenting, the culprit of the 3:30 a.m. alarm is Margaret!!! Poor Piper is as quiet as a church mouse, but her sister INSISTS on getting up at 3:30 am.!!! With Wren in the kitchen for the short term, until she's out of season, they must be alert to her movements. In any case, it was a LONG week!

The hair pile is getting bigger and bigger in our trash. All but Wren is blowing coat now. I am expecting Labrazilla to arise from the hair and walk the earth soon. There certainly is enough hair to create a behemoth like a labrazilla.