It’s hard to believe she’s been with us a month already.
For a while, there was part of me that would look at her face and expect to see Abby, because that’s what my brain was used to processing when I would see a dog in the house. But their faces and temperaments are so different. Both adorable, but individual personalities. I’m really happy she’s here though.
We gave Zoe a heartworm prevention pill for the first time. She took the pill out of her food dish, spit it out a couple times, and then chewed on it for a while. I was so excited that she ate the whole thing without us deceiving or prodding her… until I found the fully intact pill under the chair in the living room. I offered it to her again, and she proceeded to suck all the liver-flavored coating off, leaving a bare white pill. I gave up and wrapped it in some sliced turkey.
Her favorite toy is a red squeaky ball with a rubber rope attached. The squeaker is extremely loud, so naturally she would gravitate to the most obnoxious toy in the house. We’ve learned to put it away at night so she doesn’t surprise us with a loud noise. She’s chatty with the toy, too. She’ll make the toy squeak, and then she’ll answer with a loud howl.
Zoe found a frisbee in the back yard, and wasn’t quite sure what to do with it. She pawed at it several times until she flipped it over, then she carried her new treasure back to me. I threw it and she chased after it, but this only lasted a few minutes. Our dog has one of the shortest attention spans I’ve seen.
She also found a frisbee in the dog toy box in the house, and decided to use it as a chew toy.
We opened a new bag of food today, but Zoe wasn’t terribly interested in it. She ate it as usual, but she wasn’t too excited. Abby used to go nuts when we’d bring a new bag of food home, often boycotting the last few cups in the old bag so she could get a dish full of fresh food.
May 16, 2008 at 11:24 pm
i love discovering their personalities. boscoe is so different from toby, and riley is entirely different than both of them.
love the description of the chew toys, and competely understand taking the loud ball away at night. funny.
our guys eat their flea pills just fine, but when they have a pill they won’t eat i just dip it in peanut butter. i have a separate jar, just for that.
May 20, 2008 at 2:14 am
It will be interesting when we get a second one! We’re going to start looking in a few weeks. I’m excited to see who she bonds with– if it’s a completely different dog, or one that’s outgoing like she is.
Zoe’s foster family told us she liked peanut butter, and we tried that method, but she wasn’t having it. I don’t know if it was the particular brand of peanut butter, but hiding it in sliced turkey works like a charm (for now).
She slept with a red rubber bone last night. I thought she’d try to play with it at two in the morning, but she just cuddled with it and with us, which was nice.