A little video of the new puppies

Well, we have new puppies as most of you have heard. Kali was an "oopsie" puppy of some neighbours. They were just giving away the puppies so we had to go take a peek. The puppies were husky/pitbull crosses and were all so cute that S just needed to bring one home. Neither of us have ever had a true puppy before so it has been an adventure. We are still trying to house train her, teach her not to bite and to attack toys and not us.

Autumn, our Great Dane, is two years old. She is a rescued dog so she is still very new to our house. Actually, she is a more recent addition then Kali. She is a lovely, sweet dog who is much calmer than my last Dane. She is remarkably unobtrusive which is really something for a hundred and seventeen pound dog. Autumn does come with some baggage. Her pancreas has almost entirely shut down which means she needs supplements in order to digest her food. There is a powder but the sheer quantities she would need is ridiculously costly so instead she is eating raw lamb pancreas mixed with her dry food. She is doing great on the diet but it is quite pricey and once a month I have to drive two hours away to pick up the meat from a meat processing plant.
Autumn is also very shy with men. She is skittish in a way Danes are never supposed to be. She warms up fairly quickly but is still a bit jumpy. She strongly dislikes my brother who lives in my basement and won't come in the house if he is standing anywhere she can see him. I left her in his care last weekend as I went out of town and she didn't eat the whole time. We will have to work on it.

As you can see by the video, our two dogs adore each other. We, the humans in the house, are pretty much secondary. They love to wrestle, play tug-of-war and chase each other around the yard. As Kali gets bigger, we should have all out wars in the house.

Neither dog knows any basic commands so we are thinking we'll hire someone to come teach us how to teach the dogs. We are particularly disturbed by the fact they both are willing to escape the house or yard and go running through the neighbourhood. We never once had to worry about that with our last dog who would stay in the yard even if the gate was wide open. I can't trust Autumn to be off-leash at the dog park yet and I really want to take her there. It was Destiny's favourite thing and I think Autumn wold love it.