Bella update

Yesterday we took Bella to the vet for her 13-14 week shots. She handled it like a champ, didn't even whimper. In fact, she was totally infatuated by our vet (Dr. Debbie, who is also our cats' vet). Dr Debbie is the best vet I have ever been to and I have seen my fair share in the various states I have lived in. She spent an hour with us talking about Bella, checking her out and just visiting. She said that everything looks great and that Bella is one of the most well behaved puppies she has seen (We know! We only had accidents for the first two days we had her... since then? Accident free...yay!) Dr Debbie said that being accident free like this so far is basically unheard of in a puppy Bella's age because she is the equivalent of an 18month old baby. But so far, so good and we are most definitely not complaining. Also, Bella has learned in just a few days simple commands like sit, stay, and of course her name. And she actually listens. She has started to chase the kitties... ok, she has continued to want to chase the kitties... but now they are comfortable and are antagonizing her trying to play so we are now letting her chase them a little bit. It's rather comical.

We also enrolled her in puppy kindergarten which starts in a month or so (my mom finds this quite amusing). It will just help to socialize her and to give us some tips on making sure we are training her right. I'm looking forward to it. I got the recommendation of the place we are going to from my friend who has a mastiff (that apparently was a horrible puppy and this place was awesome for him). I guess in a couple of months we will have to have Bella spayed as well. Poor girl!

Today I went home at lunch to take her out and since we finally saw the sun in Seattle for the first time in about 2 weeks, Bella got to go on her first "official" walk (also helps that she has had time to get used to the leash by just doing short walks). We walked in the sun through the park and she made several new puppy and people friends. She is very friendly to everyone she sees. She has been fairly unwilling the past few days to go outside to go potty unless she absolutely has to because it has been so cold and rainy. Since boxers are very heat/cold sensitive (they don't have much of a coat), she would just sit and shake due to the cold weather. Today she kept looking at me like, "What the hell?! This is actually fun... and warm! Why haven't we done this before?!" It was way too cute. She is such a great puppy. I'm so excited that we ended up with her.

Bella and Tim at the vet. She was distracted because there was a puppy outside she wanted to play with.

After yesterday's day full of activities, she was one pooped out puppy. We had a blanket out because it was FREEZING last night. She was chewing on her bone for about 2.5 seconds and when we came back into the room this is how we found her... snoring loudly... and she was out for the remainder of the night. Dr. Debbie wore her out (and we did too- it helps us to be able to sleep through the night!)