Charlotte & Oliver
Oliver is already taller than Charlotte! They're starting to play a lot more together.
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adventures of a gay geek in paradise
Gay geek from Ohio. 12 years in San Francisco doing eLearning work. Former .com CTO. Now enjoying life a little slower in Vieques, Puerto Rico with my husband.
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Oliver the puppy: week 7
Oliver's getting huge! When he first presented himself he was about 3.5 pounds. Not quite 7 weeks later: 13 pounds! Charlotte's only 15, so he's almost caught up. (Charlotte's actually a lot skinnier than she looks under all the poofy fur.) His paws are ginormous, so he's definitely go more growing to do and is currently eating 4 times as much as Charlotte in pursuit of that goal.
Today Charlotte enjoyed having the house to herself for much of the day while Oliver was off to the vet to be fixed. They've actually been getting along well. Oliver will follow on Charlotte's heels where ever she goes, and generally she's pretty tolerant. Oliver can't jump up on furniture yet, so Charlote definitely uses that to her advantage to get away from him when she tires of him.
Charlotte's wearing the pink shirt not because she was feeling pretty today, but because she's had some kind of skin infection. It's mostly healed, but the shirt keeps her from licking off the ointment were putting on it.
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Three weeks with Oliver the puppy
Well, Oliver has been with us for almost three weeks now. I can't belive how quickly he's grown!! Compare these pics to when he first got here. It's sad to contrast him to his siblings still down the hill with the mother. They are still so much smaller than he is now. Chris has given them a couple doses of worm medication the vet gave us for them at least. We're working with the vet and the Vieques Humane Society to get them fixed and possibly adopted.
Charlotte is starting to play with him more and more. She's a little bipolar on the whole thing though, sometimes very friendly and sometimes doesn't want him near at all. Chris got him a cat collar which he adapted to pretty quickly. (After spending half a day walking around backward now and then trying to back his way out of it.) The collar has a little bell, so it's quite helpful to keep track of where he is. The fur is slowly starting to grow back on his side from the mange he had there (the white crescent you see on his side is his skin showing through) and otherwise is seeming very healthy. He's been great a house breaking and very rarely pees inside.
I think these first 2 pics are about the cutest ever. In the last one, he was afraid of the camera flash and went to hide under the couch.
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update on Oliver the puppy
OK, we've named the puppy. Went with Oliver (after Oliver Twist) since he presented himself to us as an orphan (or at least outcast from his family) and it seemed to fit.
He got a good flea bath in the kitchen sink that made a very immediate improvement. And has since been to the vet with a good bill of health. (Except the worms that we knew he'd have.) He weighs in at a scrappy 3.8 pounds. The vet gave us extra worm medication that Chris has been trying to give to the rest of Oliver's family in little meatballs of wet dog food.[There are several more pups. If anyone wants to adpot, let us know!!]
Today he picked up his bowl to carry around and do his spot-on imitation of his namesake's famous "Please sir, can I have some more?" scene. (Sorry for the crappy pics, but only
handy camera was the phone.)
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our new canine friend
There are lots of dogs on Vieques that, while not exactly wild, don't have any real home or owner. The Vieques Humane Society http://www.viequeshs.org/ makes a valliant effort to find them homes (to the point of flying them to people in the US!) and get them spayed or neutered, but they're always over capacity and having to turn dogs and cats away. (You can donate on the website!) Many Viequenses don't really see a need to get their pets fixed or any problem with them roaming the neighborhood as they want, so the problem is a difficult one to tackle.
We have a family (3 generations, 5 or 6 dogs) that lives in our neighborhood that has had at least three litters since we've been here. They usually hang out at a
semi-abandoned house and one of our neighbors feeds them here and there, but definitely not enough. Of the recent litter of four pups one has already died and it looks like they've driven out the next weakest. He was huddled in front of our gate last evening.
We've been chasing them back down the hill when we see them hanging out in front of our house as a group, but on his own he was too pitiful to turn away. He's obviously been in some fights with his siblings, has a patch of fur missing on his side, and was very hungry. So we've taken him in for the moment. Charlotte (our Jack Russell Terrier) has been surprisingly OK with him. We're a bit torn on wherer or not we're willing to keep him. We'll take him to the vet on Monday and see where things go from there.
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