Rosie, Shelby, and Mocha

As you read yesterday, Rochester was adopted.  I talked to his family last night, and he already seems to be doing well!  He's been cuddling with his dad and sister, and he's already found the door to go outside!

Rochester snoozing in the backseat on the way to meet his Furever Family.

Rosie is improving on her housebreaking.  She rings those bells like it's going out of style.  And it's really helpful with the other dogs too, because they don't ring the bells when they need to go out but they will always go out with Rosie.  She's sort of the potty leader in the house.  She's also become quite the tattle tale!  Shelby sometimes likes to steal things she's not supposed to have, and Rosie has this one distinct bark that she only uses when Shelby does it.  So every time I hear that bark I know to come running because I need to rescue something from Shelby.  I gave all the dogs baths on Friday.  Rosie was scared for about 2 minutes, but started to enjoy it when she realized it was like getting a massage.  She wasn't particularly happy about getting her hair blow dried, but I wasn't about to let a soaking wet dog outside in the sub-zero temps.

Rosie and Shelby fighting over one of the new toys Rochester's Family gave them.

Shelby has become the rascal of the group.  Her puppy tendencies are definitely starting to come out and she is taking things she shouldn't be.  Mostly my craft items, but for some reason she also like to take the dog brush, and one time I caught her with a remote.  So any potential adopters will need to keep important things out of her reach until she learns not to take these things.  I am working with her on it, but I can understand how it's confusing that she can chew on her plastic toys but not on a plastic craft.  I do know that she is teachable though, because she has learned "sit!"  She will sit on command, for a treat or not.  As far as bath news on Shelby, she reacted almost identically to Rosie.  She was nervous for a couple minutes, then started to enjoy it once I started putting in the shampoo and rubbing behind her ears.  Also like Rosie, not a fan of the blow drier.

Shelby thinks she fits in Hardy's bed.

 Mocha is still Mocha.  He hasn't picked up any bad habits, so that's good.  He was unfortunately just starting to come around with Rocky before Rocky was adopted, so I'm sad that he won't be able to explore that further.  He is getting very good with "sit."  We have about a 90% success rate, obviously using treats gets better results, but he will occasionally do it without a treat.  He has about a week left on his heartworm hold, so get in your applications now for this cute little bugger!  As far as bath time, Mocha was the worst.  I like to wash the little dogs in my kitchen sink rather than the bathtub so I don't have to bend over.  Well, next time I will be giving Mocha a bath in the tub where he can't escape.  He was NOT a happy camper about getting wet.  He tried jumping out every which way, and I was struggling to hold him one handed (the other hand was trying to shampoo).  We did get him bathed however, and I was very excited to blow dry him because I was hoping he'd come out as a giant poofball.  He likes the blow drier the most out of the dogs, but unfortunately he did not get as poofy as I was dreaming about.  Just back to his normal level of poofyness.

 Mocha getting a bath.

Mocha claiming possession of one of the toys Rochester's Family brought.

P.S. Julie came over yesterday to take some new photos and videos of the pups for their PetFinder pages.  They turned out pretty well, so be sure to check those out!