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Do you need a puppy update? Who doesn’t need to look at cute dogs right now?

Foxy, AKA Mr. P, AKA Pads, AKA CutiePatootie turned two years old! So, I guess he isn’t really a puppy anymore, but he’ll always be a puppy to me. Or at least for a little while longer.

Of course, he’s become an integral member of our family and we can’t imagine our lives without him. Even when he barks at every neighbor and wants to go outside just to stare at leaves or lie in the grass. He’s very sweet and loves snuggles and chasing a ball or frisbee. His favorite activity, however, is probably chewing things.

We just got him a harness because he has a skinny head and figured out how to get out of his collar when he didn’t want to go inside. He has figured out how to get out of the harness, too. Sigh. Obviously, he needs more training, but his humans are always too busy or too inconsistent. His harness has a cute little pocket for poop bags or treats, so I’ve stuck a couple of treats in there so I’ll always have one when I want to reward him for doing good.

Anyway, that’s my update. How about your pets? How are they handling having so much attention from their humans during these past several months?

It’s been a while since I’ve featured the new puppy on the blog (but he’s been on my Instagram and Facebook page plenty!), so it’s time for a puppy update. Foxy is now almost 8 months old and still very much led by his mouth. He chews on everything, of course – any of our body parts that come within a certain proximity of his mouth, our clothing, piano legs, any and all corners he can get his mouth around, anything he finds on the floor or the ground. He seems to especially like to bother my youngest son, now 13 years old.

Sometimes he seems amazingly smart and sometimes incredibly dumb. He mostly sits when told, but when he doesn’t get what he’s expecting quickly enough, he’ll lie down, as if he’s trying out that response to our command, just in case sitting wasn’t the correct action. He hates my laptop and will bat his paw at my hands when I’m typing, or hit the keyboard himself if I don’t move it out of the way in time.

He tries to take himself for walks by holding onto his leash with his mouth. He’s just starting to lift a leg when he pees. Yesterday my son came in from walking him and said, “He’s finally a boy.” Just in time for neutering!

And he’s very cuddly and sweet – especially when he’s not trying to bite us.

Hope you’ve enjoyed this puppy update. Tell me about your beloved fur babies in the comments.