Puppies Juniper and Mesquite Last Day

Today was the last full day the two little tykes spent with us at our house. We pretty much just hung around home and let them play in the yard, their favorite past-time and I got some good video of them doing rattie things. They will be going back to their foster mom as she is back from her vacation. You can see more of these two at the foster mom's blog http://rescuedratties.blogspot.com/

Juniper (left) and Mesquite

In these two videos you can see how much Junie and Skeet LOVE to chase the tail teaser toy. Junie might be small but she has some moves too. It was super fun playing with them and watching them run and chase, they never seem to get tired!

Dave was wiggling around the chuck-it wand and Skeet was trying to catch it, no matter how fast Dave moved it Skeet would go after it. He is an agile little dude!

And to our amazement Mesquite loves to play ball at his young age. He will retrieve and bring it back time and again. He is so young and this really surprised me that he could do this already. He also chased a Frisbee type of toy and brought that back too. What a smart boy he is!

Cony and Mesquite Tear Up the Town (King of the Rat follow up.....)

When I first offered to petsit Juniper and Mesquite I was a bit nervous. Puppies have a lot of energy and they are a lot of work and I only have a small amount of experience with puppies this young. Luckily we have had wonderful sunny weather so have been able to get them outside in the yard a lot and so that helps with the accidents in the house that comes along with puppydom. The two tykes do play together as well and so it has actually been very enjoyable to have them here and they make us laugh constantly!  Then Cony arrived and the puppies....,especially Mesquite, ended up being a true blessing! Cony and Mesquite could play for hours on end and they do just that! Juniper gets in there now and then but she is too little for it to be safe for her if the boys are really tearing up the town, but she is smart and when she has had enough she goes to lie down on the bed on the porch that she loves where she can watch the silly boys spar and wrestle, and chase from a safe distance on her thrown. Both boys love the Tail Teaser by Kyjen something fierce. (Junie loves it too and we need to play with her when the boys are out of the picture so they don't trample her, stay tuned) They can practice all their vermin killing moves and they can go and go and go.

Mesquite says "I am now King of the Rat!"

Here comes Cony on his way to claim back "his" rat that Skeeters managed to get from him.

Skeeters first surveying the toy booty.

Mesquite putting the moves on Mr Squirrel. Who knew such a young puppy would know how to do a rattie death shake? Pretty impressive I say.

This made me laugh! When the boys were in the house finally tuckered out from all that nonsense I went looking for Juniper and there she was......she had somehow found the rat when the other two hooligans were back in the house, so in the end Juniper is King Of The Rat! You go girl!

Cuteness Alert...Puppy Adorableness!

Puppy pictures don't need a lot of introduction, please enjoy the cuteness bomb!

Junie sportin' her Puppia Harness is XS

Do you mind? I have a stick that needs chewing...

This stick works good for a teething pup.

I love Mesquite's gray line between the black and white of his little face.

The next set of pictures were all taken within about 10 minutes time. Silly puppies could not figure out which way they wanted to lay, they just both wanted to get comfortable in the sun.

They started like this...

To this...

to this...

to this....

Where is Juniper?

Ahhh now this is comfortable...

Hey there she is, messing Mesquite all up.

My comfy bed...

Well it was mine...

Mesquite checks out the tissue he ripped up earlier in the day..

Finally a comfortable position! LOL

Junie and Skeeters Take Their First Walk

There is pretty much nothing we love more than introducing dogs to the world of the woods. It doesn't matter how young or old a dog is, she can always benefit from getting out on the trail and sniffing some dirt. Well Junie and Skeeter did just that and I think they did pretty well for the very first time.

Junie took to the leash like a pro. She loves to go for walks!

Junie telling Mesquite to stop goofing around and let's get going!

Having our dogs show the pups how to do it really helped a lot.

Junie got the hang of it right away but Mesquite was a little bucking bronco for a second there.

You can see how Junie just goes with the flow she is like a little shot running down the trail. So cute for a 3 lb munchkin. 

 

I love how Skeeters gets tangled up but rights himself and then off he goes. Way to go little dude!

Back in the crate in the car, pups say "hey wait we aren't tired yet!"

Well maybe we are getting a little bit tired....

Later that day, cozy in their xpen and crate after a walk...

sweet dreams.....

Juniblur and Smokin' Mesquite Are Visiting Our House

We are puppy sitting for Juniper and Mesquite's foster parents while they are out of town visiting their son and we are having fun with these two tykes. They do keep us on our toes and also laughing and shaking our heads a lot too :) To see more of these two darlings in their foster parent's home go here http://rescuedratties.blogspot.com/

Tail teaser fun

See why we call them Juniblur and Smokin' Mesquite?

Mine, no mine, no mine, no mine....

A little puppy action.

I love how these pups already know how to chase and kill a rat. Well at least a stuffed one. LOL

Mesquite (left) and Juniper playing with a squeakie egg baby.

Notice there are wearing harnesses? Stay tuned for the duo out walking on a trail for the first time.

Nom nom nom....