Welcome, Cupcake!

Popular foster puppy Cupcake arrived at our house on Sunday afternoon while her wonderful previous foster family, the Elders, take some vacation and project time. She was an instant hit with my family. 5-year old Ben thought she was "adorable!", but it was my husband Jason who she had wrapped around her little paw within three minutes. She is truly too cute-- but also very feisty and full of energy! Luckily, she is joining a full house of dogs and cats and people to keep her nice and busy. As the saying goes, "a tired puppy is a good puppy"!

The Elders already had Cupcake fully crate-trained and well on her way with house breaking. Continuing her house breaking work will be her main focus this week, but we are also working on "sit", "go to bed" (crate), "outside", and a few other little commands in addition to good 'ol "potty!". She also needs to work on becoming less mouthy/nippy when she is playing with her family (puppy teeth are so sharp!), but with good supervision and lots of puppy toys we have not had any issues with inappropriate chewing of other household items. She climbs all over us when we sit down-- such a busy, busy girl. But slowly and surely she is learning socially acceptable behavior with people. Woolie, Luci, Cocoa, & Jack are making sure she is learning all about proper canine behavior too. As for the cats... Cupcake seems to think that old Link is her arch nemesis. She will bark and bark at him. But so far, Link has demonstrated extreme disinterest in the mighty little Cupcake's bold show.

Cupcake has had her vaccinations now and will be ready to play with everyone at the Meet & Greet this Saturday. We can't wait!!