18/01/2025
Hope everyone is doing well! Just wanted to give everyone an update!
1.) Info on the puppy reunion will be coming SOON - be on the lookout! I hope to also make some fliers for the mail - non owners are welcome too, but we DO suggest keeping ANY non related dog home ONLY because some of the dogs can be reactive and tend to be LESS reactive with family vs. non family.
2.) Genetics testing reports are coming back and for the FIRST TIME, the lab was NOT able to get DNA from some of the samples. I will be reaching out to those of you who's pup came back in conclusive :(
3.) Mayple Update!
Mayple has settled right in, and the other adults have realized that she's here to stay.
Grandma Ginger is pleased to have a grand baby to dote on, and enjoys a bit of play, a bit of tag and lots of kisses on her grand.
Grandpa Carl is irritated as usual. He'd be happiest if he had NO other dogs to contend with, and get all the attention to himself.
Dittie (mom) is a mixed bag. She enjoys playing with Mayple and finally has someone to keep up with her play drive. BUT there's just one problem . . .
Mayple is very protective of me and has claimed me as 100% hers . . . no sharing. Since Dittie is 75% mine, 25% my husbands (when he has snacks and sitting on the sofa), Dittie is pretty sour about this and has taken to pouting in the corner.
A few fun facts about Dittie: she does NOT demand attention and often gets irritated when she does get it. She is obsessive about couch snuggles . . . with everyone BUT me. She is obsessive about her routine with me and going everywhere I go (including car rides, and has gotten better with traveling).
So it makes it HARD to show her the love she feels she's missing. To mitigate this, I do extra playtime on the floor when Mayple isn't around (or Mayple steals whatever toy she has), I put Mayple in the house halfway throuogh chore time so Dittie can feel special guarding mom against monsters (or Amazon delivery trucks).
But Mayple is JUST DIFFERENT.
Personality wise, she's VERY vanilla. A bit like Ginger I guess. She's very eager to please and listens better than the others even at what, 18 weeks now? She's the ONLY dog NOT to have raided the cat room for cat food or cat brownies and is exceptionally level headed. She enjoys playing with her new bestie "Stratus", a former barn kitten siamese we brought into the house 2 years ago and tried to make into a house cat, only to have her tear the house apart demanding to go out, so now she's inside outside . . .
The two girls play HARD, but Mayple is SO VERY GENTLE with her bites.
Mayple has her snuggle routine and she is VERY vocal on what she wants. At exactly 8am she barks at me to end breakfast and do couch snuggles. I rarely sit on the sofa since I only get to sit 10 minutes before an animal needs to go out to potty (yes the new house WILL have a pet door!) So this routine is new for me.
She also has created a game with my son called CHASE. They run back and forth through the house and she adores it.
Overall, Mayple has been just the BEST puppy. Nothing has been chewed up, she's been potty trained since 10 wks old, and she's been a perfect angel. I keep waiting for her alter ego to come out . . . but I think this is what we have.
Like I said, personality wise she's not very exciting compared to the others. But she will make a great Ambassador of our farm here and Frenchton Breeding program.
I can only hope that everyone else has had similar results with their baby :)
