Lots going on with the pups in the last few days. I should have photos from Friday's outing as soon as I remember to bring the CD my friend gave me with the photos that she took...
On Friday, the babies went on their first "road trip" to visit some of the customers at the business where I am part-owner. They had a short car ride (no big deal), bath (NOT impressed!), got dried under a cage dryer for the first time (NOT impressed!) and got to visit with LOTS of new people (impressed!). They ate dinner off a paper plate with lots of onlookers and sucked everything down with gusto. They weathered the stressful parts of their afternoon quite well and impressed everyone with how extremely cute and confident they were. They got more kudos from everyone for how well they did in seeking out and using the paper area of their temporary pen as their potty area.
On Saturday, Ginny and Dick Lane came to visit and braved a snowy drive from the coast to visit the wee beasts. They had tried to visit last weekend, but the weather was even less cooperative then. The Lanes stayed overnight in Beaverton and then brought breakfast by on Sunday morning (for us humans) and had another quick visit before the long drive home.
Ginny and Dick had no sooner cleared the door then we whisked the pups into the van for their second car ride of the week and took them off to a friend's house for temperament testing. We were quite pleased with the results of the temperament testing, with "medium" ratings for almost all the pups. This indicates that they should have good personalities for companion dogs, as we had anticipated. Remember that these are PWD puppies and they will not be push-button dogs - appropriate temperament for a PWD does not equate with "easy". Those of you that are getting pups can still expect plenty of challenges along the way as you raise your pup to adult-hood! The pups may each get a couple outings with friends in the next two weeks to start with the process of getting them away from their "pack" a little and exposed to different people/places.
Keeping up with four busy Portuguese Water Dogs.
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