Rosie, Mocha, and Junie B.

First day since Benji left us.  It's definitely calmer around here, but Rosie is doing her best to keep the energy level up.  Unfortunately for all the other dogs, she's twice their size (at least), so they really need to gang up to play with her I think.  The biggest difference I notice without Benji is he was my laundry buddy.  He was the only dog who would go in the basement with me.  Now I have to be down there all alone!

Now that it's getting nice out, I've been able to leave the back door open for the dogs to go in and out as they please.  This has completely eliminated accidents in the house, which is so wonderful.  Also with the nice weather, I've been converting my sunporch (previously used just for storage) into a dog room.  Once it's consistently warm enough (hopefully within the next week or two), I'm going to move their crates out there.  It's right off my bedroom, so they'll still be within comfort range, I think.  But I feel bad keeping them cooped up in their crates so much, that the intention is to give them the run of the room while I'm at work.  The floor is tiled, so that will make it easy on cleanup if there are accidents.  I spent this weekend building a divider so I can keep the little dogs separate from the big dogs.  Not really because I don't trust the big dogs, but I know they can annoy the little guys once in awhile, so I wanted them to have their own space.  I'm going to be putting up curtains today.  Because it's a sunporch, it has windows on 3 sides, and they are low enough that the dogs can see out.  The intention of the curtains is to put up a barrier where I can still open the windows on hot days to let air pass, but not let the dogs see out to bark at all the neighbors.  Fingers crossed it works as intended.  I will have pictures to post once the whole thing is done.

Rosie has been with me for nearly 3 months now.  What is wrong with you people!?  She is such a great dog, I am really shocked she hasn't been adopted yet!  Am I not doing a good enough job of selling her?  She's housebroken, great with other dogs, great with people (a little shy at first, but she gets over it quickly), never violent, comes when called, sits on command...what more do you need to know?!

Mocha is also one who's been with me longer than expected.  He's also housebroken, great with other dogs, great with people, not violent, comes when called, and also sits on command.  Plus he's really fluffy.  Is it the fluff that scares people off of him?  I promise it shouldn't.  He loves to get his hair combed.  As long as I've had him he's never been a tangled mess.  And he's really become a cuddler in the last month or so.

Junie B. hasn't been with me long, and I don't expect her to.  I still maintain that she is the ideal dog for any family.  She managed to outsmart me when Benji's family was here yesterday, and she was so interested in meeting them.  I almost think she wanted to go home with them too!  (And now that I think about it, Rosie did too...to the point where she actually followed them outside to their car, and I had to go grab her!)  My little June Bug is 90% housebroken, we still occasionally have accidents, but she's getting a lot better at knowing when she needs to go outside and letting me know.