not all plain sailing!

[Tina, Dylan & Lucy]

I added a post recently to promote the benefits and joy of having a second doodle.

 

Now don't get me wrong, we still love our doodles to bits but jusy to add some balance, I thought I'd just fill you in on a few recent events.

 

Little Lucy (3 months) was very interested in our shopping bags when my hubby got back from the supermarket - as you would expect. She had a sniff through them and then trotted away.

 

All was quiet for a few minutes when I just had this nagging feeling that something was up and went off to find her hunkered down underneath the dining room table happily munching her way through a packet of fruit shortcakes! She had opened the packet and was furiously crunching away as if she knew she'd soon be caught!. Being a second doodle, I knew that what her tummy couldn't handle would probably reappear and without being too obvious here, all was corrected an hour later!

 

She and Dylan (2 years) do get along great but just now when I could hear rustling from downstairs, I came down to find that working as a team, she had jumped up at the kitchen bin, pressing her paws on the catch so the lid sprung up, which left him able to dip in and pull out whatever was at the top. Our empty packets etc were strewn around the kitchen. (I had seen her open the bin earlier so could see how this had happened!)

 

So, lovely as they are, and while they do play well and occupy each other, Beware! They can be double trouble too!

 

They are both asleep now. Lucy laying on her back underneath my desk chair -see pic (she likes it there) and Dylan stretched out on the landing. How could you now love 'em!

 

[Dot, Maggie and KoKo]

OMD I'm not sure its having two doodles or just how devilish one of the two can be.  Maggie is so quiet and sweet so I couldn't resist getting the second dood.  Enter nightmare KoKo... she does everything bad.  You can try to dogproof your house but these doodles will go for ANYTHING, things you wouldn't think they would show an interest in.   And they chew and swallow everything.  Last night KoKo got hold of small pieces of fabric that I left on the dining room table after cutting out a sewing pattern.  Yep she ate it. She's eaten a five dollar bill, a one dollar bill, two hairdresser coupons and a $10 store card.  All this "stuff" was way back on the kitchen table but surfing is not out of reach, even for a mini doodle.  Please Lord, let her get past this stage of puppyhood.  Good thing she has "cute" going for her.

[Tina, Dylan & Lucy]

Oh we've been there with Dylan! He ate a sock at 4 months and had to have it surgically removed. Since then he's managed to get hold of numerous other items but thankfully they all reappeared naturally!

He stopped all of this probably at aged 1 year, maybe slightly older. Lucy hasn't shown any interest so far but seems to want to eat (actual food) alot more than he ever did. Guess he was full up with the socks!

It will pass, stay strong!

[Dori & Rua]

Well, that just confirms my current status as a member of the "Only Doodles" group and the reason I gate the kitty in the lower level and confine Rua to her crate while we are gone.  When we are sitting to eat or watching TV together, I am always asking "Can you see Rua"?  He makes a big production out of it and starts talking to Rua like "Rua, can you please come over her and lay down in your Momma's site so she'll stop asking me if I can see you?".  Gosh, you would have thought I was being unreasonable!  LOL  I just know that "quiet" is usullly never good.

 

Oh yes...sounds like you have Double Trouble...but, also Double Love!!!