The trip to Columbus and back went well but was very LONG. We were gone 12 hours and that doesn’t count the loading and unloading on either end. The pups are wound up but I am exhausted as I suspect the other humans are as well.
We made it to Columbus with about 45 minutes before our appointment, we had to stop a time or two to change the bedding in the crate because some puppies were carsick. Again this trip ,they were sick before we could get to the “better road” but were fine after we got on the 4 lane road. We let them out into Aunt Tamara’s yard and fed them and the MamaBug and she fed them as well. And they got to meet another of their sisters, Mila (she was the yellow girl last time). The humans used the bathroom and tried to ride herd on the puppies who thought that the pea gravel around the tree was great fun to put in their mouths. I did NOT care for that activity. We didn’t have long until we had to head over to MedVet for our appt. It took a while to do the paperwork while we waited for the eyes to dilate but then it took a longer time for them to be ready for us.
The puppies were as good as can be expected for that, Kodiak was first (I go in birth order) and didn’t fuss but T2J was NOT pleased. I think it was as much how they hold them as them wanting to get down and play. Most of the puppies fussed but all got clear reports. Not even any “puppy spots” and this is the youngest we’ve done them.
Afterward (and by then it was late afternoon) we got some sandwiches and ate in the back yard at Roger and Tamara’s while the puppies played. Fergie (Mila’s housemate) enjoyed playing with the puppies very much and they enjoyed playing with her. They weren’t in the rocks as much but still had to have them taken out of their mouths more than I would’ve liked. They also had BIG fun playing with a metal dish that had been used to serve them some water. They drank some and wallered some and then dragged and/or carried the throughout the yard. That seemed to help burn off some of the energy and they were winding down as we were ready to head along home. None of them were sick on the way to or from MedVet or on the way home. It’s just that awful first part of the trip.
They got to hear a nearby siren as we were going back out to the car at MedVet.
After we got home, we brought them into the dog yard but didn’t have the gate over the doorway and when I opened it for something, in they went. I put them in the pen and fed them and the big dogs and then took the babies back out to potty. They enjoyed running amok in the mostly dark (I turned on the lights but it isn’t like daylight) and everybody went potty. They are back in the pen and I am ready to go nighty, nighty, nighty but 12 year old Jack is ready to blow off some steam. He’s going to have to forgo that tonight though.
We added 9 new people to our list today including one of the MSU’s golfing friends who was here this morning and was impressed into puppy cuddly ;-) It’s just not safe to come around us if you don’t want to help socialize puppies. They’ll meet some more this weekend.
For now, I am calling it a day and we are going to go nighty, nighty, nighty. Puppy breath to all…
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