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Saturday, August 1, 2009

Minnie Arrives!

Well, Minnie arrived home last night. I would have written something then, but when we got back it was midnight and we were both so tired!! But anyway, she arrived today!! I love her lots! But she is so nervous. I honestly don't think she's ever seen the inside of a house. And when we gave her a bath last night, we had to scrub her with shampoo twice because she was FILTHY!!! And she STUNK!!!!! But she is clean now. That was the first step. She sheds like you wouldn't believe! I think mostly it is stress. She acts like she's never been petted before! I don't know what kind of a life she had before she came here, the people I got her from said she was a house pet first and foremost. But Minnie is so scared of this house and of being petted, I don't know. She has calmed down considerably since last night though.

She's almost 4 years old now. Anna and I were talking about it last night, Minnie was born about the same time Rockstar: INXS was going on!! She will be 4 years old this month. She has a lot of good years ahead of her! She is now laying beside me on my chair as I am typing this so I got her to do that at least. It's Vegas I am worried more about. He's not taking well to this situation. I didn't think he would at first. All his life it's always been just him and Odessa in this house. No other dogs at all. Then suddenly this little powerhouse comes into the family and Vegas doesn't know how to handle it. Minnie is so much bigger than Vegas and Odessa!! And she was the smallest of all the other papillon dogs this breeder had.

When I called his ad, I found he had 3 papillon dogs for sale; 2 females and a male. He described his females and male, and I went there with the intent to get his tricolor female named Olivia. But when I got there, Olivia was not what I expected. Her ears were tiny, and IMO, the ears are what makes a papillon a papillon. But Minnie had nice, huge ears, so I fell in love with her. Olivia had the better coat though. It's true though, Minnie is ALL ears!!! I will post pics of Minnie as soon as I can take some. Vegas and Odessa are still trying to get used to her, but they are making progress. I got Vegas to sit on my lap right next to Minnie. But he jumped down once he couldn't take it anymore.

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