Quiet night

It was a great night with Brutus last night ... for his first two nights, he slept in his carrier, with his blanket and a toy, next to the bed. He whimpered occasionally, but was mostly great. Last night we put his doggy bed in the bed room, with toys and a blanket.

We made sure he knew he wasn’t allowed on the bed, and he would hop his front paws up, but jump back down when we told him no ... he did a couple of laps of the apartment, then quickly settled down in his doggy bed and slept the entire night. I didn’t hear another peep from him all night. It was so great, third night here and he’s sleeping like a baby.

We’ve had no mess form him, he’s not peed or marked anything in the house yet. Today will be the big test, we’re going to work soon, and will be leaving him alone in the kitchen until lunch time. I’ve let our landlords know he may whine and woof, and they are fine

As Beth wrote, our landlady came up last night with Cash ... Brutus and Cash got on great after a while, and I hope they will become great companions for each other. Next month is Cash’s one year birthday, and they are holding a doggy party in the back yard for him, Brutus is invited That should be a great chance for him to socialise with plenty of other dogs and get to run off a ton of energy, that should be a lot of fun!

In case you havent seen it, there is an image gallery for Brutus here:

http://smeg.serveftp.org/gallery/Brutus/

We’re adding a ton of pics as we take them, so check often

So cute!!!!

Our landlords downstairs brought up their puppy Cash and introduced him to Brutus.  They were a little tentative of each other at first, Cash moreso than Brutus, but then again I prolly would be too if I were a little 5 or 6 pound Shih Tzu facing a 15 pound stocky Pug!  Brutus was the first to break the ice and started woofing and play nipping to try to get Cash to play.  Maribel started chasing Brutus and Cash around the house, and they were loving every minute of it, and we were just killing ourselves laughing.  It was hysterical!

Then Smeg got out his electric car and started chasing the two of them with it.  They were both then running and jumping around.  They really started to warm up to each other after a while.  Cash has been shaved, but his tail is still all poofy so both dogs were chasing the furry bit.  The fur from Cash’s tail tickles his back so he chases his tail all the time.  Brutus just thought it was another toy and kept chasing it, since it’d make Cash play.

It was so adorable to see the two of them make friends and play like that.  I hope they will get a lot more play time in the future.

Hi again

I stole the pooder ting again from Mum.  Today was a great day!!  Dad stayed home wiff me.  I missed Mum.  She left and it took a long time before I saw her again.  But Dad took me out for more walkies today.  He called it a park.  All I know is I gots to run and run and run.  It was fun!!!

Today a new ting came up.  It was black and white wiff a toy on the back.  But it liked to play.  The people that came up wiff it said it was its Mum and Dad.  They called it Cash.  It was funny-looking. Big poofy ting on the back and silly fur on it’s ears.  But it played and played.  Though it tried to play wiff my toys.  Hmph!  My toys.  But I tink I like the Cash ting, so I might let it play too.

I also gots a new toy.  I can chew and chew and chew on it and no one gets mad!!  I like this new toy.

Hey, I heard walkies.  I go now.  Bye!

Hello

Park

I just took Brutus down to the local park on his new harness and retractable leash ... he loved it there ... it’s got a small baseball pitch, so I let him have full run of his leash there, and he ran around like a mad thing sniffing all the smells and getting plenty of exercise.

It definitely worked, he’s slouched out on the floor in the living room now sunbathing and snoring

He’s settling in great. He’s getting along better with Nikki each time (she’s adapting to him too) ... I caught them sniffing each other through the cage earlier, but missed a photo op when Brutus ran after me when I went to get the camera

One thing that will be interesting is that he really doesn’t like being left alone. I’m making the kitchen dog safe ... there is a baby gate on one wall, and a swing door on the other side (which we’ll have to have a chair behind, he’s worked out it swings). I’m teaching him to be ok on his own today, I keep locking him in there, then going out the back door to do the laundry giving him a little bit more time by himself each time. He seems to fret at first, then calm down and amuse himself with his toys. He really doesn’t like it if you are still in the house and he’s locked in though!

Tomorrow will be the test, he’s going to be on his own for the first time when we go to work in the morning. We’ll be back at lunch, but thats still longer than we’ve tried.

I’ll let you know how it goes

Hi

Hi!  I just stole this ting Mum calls a pooder.  I’m Brutus.  These peoples call themselves my new Mum and Dad, so I’ll go wiff it.  They’re nice.  They play wiff me and take me for lots of walkies.  I love walkies.  There’s so many neat tings to sniff at and lots and lots of smells.

I gots a new toy.  Mum called it a hedhog.  I keep trying to kill it but it still makes lots of noise.  I still plays wiff my moomoos, but this ting is fun!  There’s also this big white ting in the room.  I gots in twouble when I woofed at it, so I don’t woof at it now.  I didn’t like Dad scolding me.  It wasn’t nice.  But the white ting won’t play!!  It just sits there.  I want to play wiff it.  I keep telling it to play but it don’t listen.  It’s stupid.

Eep.  Here comes that Mum person.  I better go.  Bye-bye.

First night

The first night in a new place is always weird for any dog, but Brutus was really good about it.

When we got in, we let him run around and learn about the new apartment, we let him explore, jump on things. We made sure he knew that barking at Nikki wasn’t allowed, and he responded well to it, and didn’t do it again (he did keep going back for a look though, she must be one ugly dog to him!). We gave him his water and a little bit of kibble so he knew where his bed was.

When it came to sleeping one of the things I’ve read is to make them confortable with their existing bed, but keep it close. So, we put him in his carry case and had it next to the bed.

It worked great. He settled right down, and only a couple of times in the night did he whimper, at which point I would roll over, put my hand through the bars, talk to him and he settled right down knowing he wasn’t alone. He slept almost all the way through, with no messes. We’ll probably do that for a couple more nights. Eventually we’ll pick him up a nice comfy doggy bed (probably on Monday), and we’ll see how he adapts to sleeping on that either in the bedroom or in the kitchen.

He had a nice walk this morning, and he’s gobbled down his kibble, he’s busy throwing the “whoomphing” hedgehog toy around the office right now, and chasing pieces of fluff around the floor