Laddie is trying to be good

[ferg]

Laddie is a totally different Sheltie than Chip. If you get him at the right time you can love on him for maybe 45 seconds. He maybe rests from running a couple times during the day for 10 minutes. Chip isn't putting up with much of Laddie's antics but they play non stop until Chip shuts it down.
Smart just like all Shelties. Obeys most commands, stops biting if you tell him, can shred a piece of paper in nothing flat, eats his food as though it was his last meal, has to check Chip's bowl to see if there is any there, loves all soft toys, etc. We never had to place small things out of sight for Chip. We have tons of nick nacks. Magazine baskets, book racks, pillows, soft throws, and soft animal characters setting here and there. Laddie has found all of them and at one time or another he has had them all in a pile in the middle of the Great Room.

This summer should be interesting since we spend almost all our daylight hours working in the garden or yard. It will need to be a chain snapped to his collar, no rope would last more than five minutes.

I said the other day he was three months old. Actually he was 12 weeks last Wednesday, technically not three months until the 4th of February.

I forgot to transfer new photos to the computer.

 

[Margi]

Well Ferg, I sure can empathize with the no cuddles puppy. I remember trying to hold Fillion in my lap and he was so quick wanting to get down I started counting to see how long I could hold him. Never got to 10 mississippi till this year! Koko on the other hand will lay in your lap like a slug all night if you let him.
How nice for Laddie to have a good brother to get all that puppy energy out with. Second kid's always easier they say

 

[tesslynn]

memories

ahhhhh thanks for sharing the joys of puppyhood. Laddie sounds very special, it is true that puppies have one track minds...it is GO....they wanna go, and go and go like an energizer bunny, until they can't go anymore, and then it is feed me, or let me nap. Kaleigh didn't really disturb much in my house, but Savannah was IN to everything always. Is the personal shredder of anything landing on the floor in two seconds-always a beaver. Kaleigh will perform shredding services but she isn't pouncing on stuff immediately. I have had cuddle muffins mostly, Kaleigh wants to be close, but not fussed over, for her it is about being an appendage.

It will be interesting to see how when Laddie matures what changes in his personality. Glad to hear they are getting along and enjoy each other. Kaleigh didn't know what to make of Savannah, but now that they are coming up on 2, they have bonded closely, and will act as a team when needed yet can be independent. I do feel somewhat guilty that I had way more time for Kaleigh, and Savannah probably needed more one on one time, that didn't happen. Kaleigh is way better behaved. Savannah does what Savannah wants unless I really get on her, then like a bratty teenager complys I often wonder if she had come first, would she be as much as a diva as she tries to be. Kaleigh puts her in her place, it cracks me up.

Life with shelties is precious isn't it? I enjoy reading the adventures and antics in other households, ruled by these furbabies.

 

[MissyGallant]

Laddie sounds like a pistol. He also sounds kind of fun. Annabelle was our GO GO GO puppy. And her daughter Clarabelle followed in her wake. Clarabelle still isn't overly fond of allowing you to pick when she gets petted. She loves standing belly rubs, but it is always when she decides that will happen.

You sound like you're having a great deal of fun.

 

[SheepOfBlue]

Sca is 6 and still not much of a snuggler. He likes to get petted but then he is off to run around something or check on things. If you can catch him snoozing he will stay for a while and get petted. Spitfire despite his evil hide is the snuggle dog. He LOVES to get petted and being a dog that doesn't like things to change has a habit of eating, then come for some petting and then on to a nylabone or chew. That is his routine almost every morning.