Puppy Sleepover

This week we had our first puppy sleepover with Maggie.  As Cayenne’s BFF, it’s only fitting that she got to have a sleepover – the other girls get to have sleepovers, so the baby dog has to have hers too!  Before you think I’ve gone off the “dog obsessed” deep end, the truth is that my parents had a lot to do at the house in Southern MD, so Maggie came to hang with us for two days.

On day one that she was here, the two pups were 100 miles an hour for hours.  They raced around, wrestled, played, raced around some more, chased, wrestled more…I could go on and on, but of course you get the picture.

 

So, when this happened after four straight hours of mayhem, I felt like I was witnessing a puppy miracle!  I didn’t even want to use my “real” camera to take this picture because I was certain the click on the camera might wake them up.  Unfortunately, I had to wake them up after just 10 minutes of rest so I could take them out before leaving to teach my class.  It was painful to do!  I can now fully appreciate the suggestion to “let sleeping dogs lie”!!!

Maggie even learned from Cayenne a little about the benefits of letting the human take her picture.  Cayenne has quickly learned that if she holds still and lets me take her picture, I give her a little piece of Milkbone as a reward.  It’s actually gotten quite annoying as anytime Cayenne is in the viscinity of me taking a picture, she’ll sit and look at me, expecting me to take her picture then reward her with a treat.  Shockingly enough to her, there may be occasions when I’m not actually wanting her in the picture.

 

When the girls got home from school, they wanted to take the pups on a walk around the neighborhood which was fun.  With all the squirrels and birds in the park, the picture below on the right happened a lot!

 

By the end of day one, they had started to settle down a bit, so we let them come up at shower time and bedtime.  Cayenne always comes up and hangs out while the girls get showers and gets ready for bed, then she goes to each room to say goodnight, but the pups defintitely got a burst of serious energy when upstairs and were racing from room to room, and even interrupted an attempt at Nina recordering her Awana verses to her leader: https://youtu.be/U-LaAj5QZYU

As a result, they were both banned from the upstairs.  Clearly they weren’t happy about it. 

By the end of the night, thankfully, they were both so exhausted that they slept.  Cayenne put her head on my hand for me to give her a little pet, and within seconds she was asleep.

  

Day two was much of the same as day one, but they did hit a more reasonable rhythm of play and rest, play and rest, repeat, repeat, repeat.  Maggie is a great pup, and together, she and Cayenne have so much fun.   While the 2-legged girls in the family all have so much fun getting together, it’s nice that the 4-legged ones love spending time together so much too!!