Thursday, March 27, 2008

Our Darling - Twinkle


Finally, we brought our darling back home last Saturday. She is only 7 weeks old when we brought her back. Initial planning was to bring Twinkle back after her 2nd vaccination, but Audrey has been thinking about her as such we brought forward our plans and to bring her into our family earlier then expected.
Luckily, we had already bought most of Twinkle's stuff. We placed Twinkle into her playpen immediately she came back. We wanted her housetrain her as soon as possible when she is still an innocent puppy. The moment we placed her down, she starts to whine. Guess she must be feeling the isolation from her mum and sister. It does break our hearts hearing her crying but we have to let her get use to it sooner or later.

She is still whining at night, I think she does not want to be left alone as she always has her sister for companionship. We move her into a dog crate and placed it beside our bed so that she would not feel lonely and at the same time, we could supervise and paper-train her.

I have to wake up almost every 3 hours to bring Twinkle to her pee/poo spot. Did not really have a good rest. Lucky for me, our Twinkle is a bright puppy, she is about 90% paper train. Even when we left her in the playpen when we're out for work, she managed to pee and poo on the newspaper.

Still in the process of training her some simple commands like come and sit. Its frustrating at times when she fails to follow what she is suppose to do. But it’s not her fault, as she is still a baby. But whenever she mouth bites us or chew the newspaper, she has to be disciplined that she's not suppose to do all that.

Having a pet dog is a lifetime commitment, no matter what we would love and care for Twinkle just like Twinkle will love us.

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