we picked up our little guy last week, wednesday morning. driving out to get him there is an accident at 670E/270N/Easton exit. of course… it added about 20 minutes to the trip, but it didn’t interfere with our getting the dog.

the first day was pretty fun. he didn’t do too much. we let him wander around the house, took him outside, let him get used to the place. he took to us pretty quickly and didn’t seem too upset by the change of scenery.

thursday morning he had his first vet visit. he weighed 9lbs. the vet tech that weighed him had to tell the vet the weight twice, then the vet went and confirmed it herself after that. i guess 9lbs is large for a 6 week old pup. marek isn’t even the biggest in the litter. he did seem to be about the second biggest though. they gave him some deworming meds at the visit. vet said all puppies have worms. pretty gross i thought… then later he pooped and i saw the worms. even grosser. then i noticed he had one sticking out of his butt… had to pull that one out with a paper towel. i almost blew chunks but made it through.

the thing we learned that first night is that he has to go out every couple of hours. we let him whine to wake us up, then we take him out. last night (his 5th night in our house) he only had to go out once at 4am. i hope he gets better at holding his shit in over the next week or so so i don’t have to get up and carry him downstairs and outside.

all in all he’s a pretty cool guy. sometimes in the evenings he gets super spazzoid and runs around, biting at your feet and trying to eat leaves and stuff in the yard. he really likes to pull on the grass outside. so far he’s been pretty good about shitting and pissing in the house. he’s had a couple of accidents and hopefully he’ll get that under control in the next couple of weeks as well. he usually lets us know when he wants to go out, and we keep a close eye on him after dinner. his routine seems to be to eat, play for a few minutes then pass out. when he wakes up is when he seems to have to go the worst, so it’s pretty easy to get him out then.

here he is in all his glory!