My Little Sahsha is just a joy.
In the mornings when I want to lure her in her kennel, I grab her nylabone, put some peanut butter on it and just let her lick it once or twice and then put it in her kennel and all the while, she’s just following me and goes right in the kennel. We gate up the kitchen and we’re off without a whimper or a cry. She falls for it EVERY time.

Every day when I get home from work, I take her on a nice 45 minute walk through the neighborhood. We pick up the mail, chat with some friends and she just doesn’t walk, she doesn’t run, she frolicks up ahead of me with her head going side to side like she’s in tune with a song. It’s hilarious.
On the way back to the house, I get a quick run in and you should see her! She’s so competitive! She’s so determined to beat me that I just have to stop and laugh most of the time.

Every Saturday morning, we go out for maybe one hour or two to the park. The last time I put her in the baby swing and she was just as content as she could be! It was hilarious!!
Probably because she’s too tired to fight being put in there from her walk and playing chase with all the kids at the park. All the kids LOVE chasing her. She loves to be chased. They can never catch her though.. no matter how fast she is.
Then it comes the time for us to go home and I try and get her to come to me.. and I have no treats! ::AGHAST!!!::: Lord have mercy. I have to trick her and then grab her and leash her up.
Why don’t I ever remember to bring treats! I am sooo silly!!!

Last night Sahsha went to a barbeque at Linda’s house. Goodness! Linda didn’t have anything prepared and her sister was running around crazy trying to make and grill up everything.
Sahsha was just not happy with Linda’s Red Heeler though! Hilarious.
The Blue Heeler couldn’t get enough of her and Sahsha just can’t defend herself against such a big dog. Linda whips the poor thing! And after three traumatic episodes for Sahsha, I just brough her back inside. All he was doing was smelling her but Sahsha was not having it. She gets along very well with the big dogs in our neighborhood, but those dogs are way better trained. Bummer.
Sahsha will probably not make an appearance at Linda’s house again.
LOL!

A new ball for Sahsha

Everytime I go through those sideshow pictures I get to tickled and remember how wonderful it was and how special those tender moments were; I have videotape of her and everything. She's such a joy to have!! She reall is. I bought her this little beach ball and she just has a blast with it. I can't wait to video her playing with it. When we go out together, she barks at strangers. I think she thinks she's protecting me. She thinks I'm the child and she's the momma! LOL! The vet mentioned that we shouldn't be taking her out and meeting other dogs until she's had ALL her shots. Bummer.. no doggie park for Sahsha beans for a couple weeks.
>:-(

I read somewhere on the internet that if you have a bell on the door, the dog will associate that noise with going potty and eventually when they need to go out they'll ring the bell.
Okay.. I couldn't find a bell, so I had this little wind chime that I attached to the door where Sahsha could reach it.. and we had been working randomly for three days on it... and last night.. I was ironing, Steve was watching TV and all of a sudden I heard the little chimes and SAHSHA WAS AT THE DOOR!!! She needed to go out!!! I got all excited and said, "THE BABY NEEDS TO GO OUT!!!!"

Sahsha and I ran outside and she tee-teed and I gave her a treat. It's was like 3 minutes total! So AWESOME!! Steve was completely amazed!!! So daggone smart our little Sahsha beans is!!!
WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!

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Oh, her hair is growing back around her nose... getting to look more and more like a snauzer.
Hmmm...

Don't shave puppy yourself... EVER...

Sahsha is getting SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO big..
Think she might get to 15 lbs.
WOW!
Amazing..
I miss holding her in my arms and her whole body fit so nice.. Now all her legs are all over the place and I can't control her movements...

We tried to trim her hair ourselves.. BAD IDEA!!
Poor little baby..
She has a scalp mark on the side of head... but she's so much cuter without all that long white hair... and let's not forget about the little beard!!!
It took about 5 mini sessions to get it right and she's so cute!!!

Sahsha goes to the dog park.. FINALLY!

Sahsha beans had a good time at the doggie park yesterday. I joined this Meetup Group and they met yesterday at Cattail Dog Park. Sahsha and I were SOOOO EXCITED!!!!

There are SO MANY BIG DOGS!!! No little doggies for Sahsha.. She was kinda agitated at first with all these dogs that want to smell her but she got accustomed to it; Then it started RAINING after an hour or so.. so we called it quits and went home and gave Sahsha a bath and she was POOPED OUT!!
She whined when we put her in the kitchen, so we let her stay in bed with us for a little while.
She fell asleep and I felt SO BAD when I picked her up and she woke up. She looked so sweet and peaceful.
I put her in her kennel and she was fine.

I AM SO PROUD!!!

Sahsha is going to be the FEATURED PET OF THE DAY at PetShed.com on July 22nd!! AAAHHHHHHH!!!
Oh my goodness! I'm so proud!!!
Here's a sneak peak: http://www.petshed.com/testimonials.asp?pow=2006-07-22-1
Isn't she a doll!!?
I've entered her in the Petplace.com pet of the day contest too.
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It rained again all weekend for Sahsha. We did get some time and exercise in outside though. I took her on a new path and she couldn't be happier. Loves the smell of new things.
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We'll try again this week to get her to the Doggie Park on Thursday; Hope there is no rain
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She was so freaked out with all the fireworks and banging last night..
She whined and whined and cried until we put her in bed with us.
Once we finished watching our movie we put her back in her kennel.
I've got the Mommy ears now. I can always hear her but Steve can't. It's so funny.
I'll be like, "Is she barking?" And Steve is like, "I don't hear anything". We check on her and I've locked her out on the patio by accident again and she's barking to come inside.
Funny!
I SOOOO got this Mommy thing down! Nothing to it!

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Bad weekend for Sahsha.

When Sahsha gets scared; she hides under the table.
She's so cute!!!!

Since we haven't taken her outside in a long time with the rain and everything she was quite agitated yesterday.
She tee teed on the floor, I spanked her and sent her to the kitchen locked up. Then I guess she was trying to sleep and I was petting her and she nipped me. Spanked her again, in the kitchen again. She had such a bad weekend. Always getting into trouble.. poor little baby. I took her to play and run at the school and she was sooo damn happy! She didn't know what to do with herself!!! She ran and ran and couldn't stop! So funny.l I brought her back home and she was passed out on the floor within 5 minutes.
That's all she needed.. was to use up all her pent up energy; She just wasn't jiggy with sitting on the bed watching a movie with her momma.

Time for Kennel Training

Sahsha SAHSHA SahSHA!
My goodness girl!
Do you know what she's been doing?! We leave the pantry door open a tad and Sahsha gets into some MESS! First thing that Steve was telling me was he stopped home one day and had the Cracker Barrell paper bag handles over her head! I wished I had been there! Total picture moment!
So yesterday, I came home and there was torn up little bits of paper towels ALL OVER THE PLACE! It looked like a hurricane came through!!! Oh my goodness!! AND CHECK THIS OUT! This isn't the first time it's happened. Steve has been cleaning up all her mess before I get home and covers it up because he's scared of whatever crazy tactic I'll come up with!!
LOL!
Oh my goodness!
The first thing I thought was she just needs to be kennel trained and when we're gone, she she'll be in the kennel and just deal with it.
But Steve feels this is cruel and unusual punishment.
We'll see.. It won't be so bad.

Sahsha goes the Jazz Concert

I took Sahsha to the free Jazz Concert at Market Street.
I met up with Kristen and we had so much fun. Sahsha was just everywhere! Running up to everyone playing with everything. The loud drums scared her though.
It takes so much coordination to watch her, keep her out of trouble, feed her, make sure she went potty... My goodness! I have to have like another pair of arms and eyes in the back of my head to keep up with her! How do people with children do it!! WOW!
She was just a handful. She is finally is big enough with fit into the spiked red leather collar and the police officers kept calling her a "killa beast"! It was hilarious!!! She's so cute! Why didn't I bring my camera! I'm so crazy.

Carrying her in her little purse on my bad shoulder was a TERRIBLE idea! My shoulder has started to hurt again. I had to drive with one hand! I have a torn up rotator cuff from a slip on a patch of ice 6 years ago in Virginia. I'm probably gonna have to start physical therapy again. Ugh!! I should have known better.

She got a little nippy and after 2 hours; She must have been really hungry or super tired. I didn't really feed her much before I left. I took her home and she just chowed down like she hadn't eaten in DAYS! Poor baby! It was an excellent opportunity to give her Frontline Heartworm thing though. At that point she would eat anything!!!!
She was so TIRED though. She just plopped in her little kennel and was out!
Next time I need to bring her food so she can keep up with all of us.

Sahsha and her gumballs!

Sahsha was cooped up most of the day since we had small group last night; We came home and I took her to the high school to run around crazy and use up her energy well. Then we went home and I didn't realize she had one of those sticky balls in her mouth. It might have some type of sugary syrupy stuff on it so when she got home she just went absolutely wild and CRAZY!! WILD! I never seen anything run so fast in my life! She's hilarious! She was not pleased when we put her in the kitchen and gated her up.. Whining.. poor little baby. This morning I worked with her and tried to teach her "lay down".. She is so HARDHEADED! She'll get tired on me and then finally plop down and I'll give her a treat and say, "good lay down" but I'm not sure it's sticking.

Vet - 2nd round of shots

Sahsha got her 2nd round of shots yesterday.
I think she remembered what was coming so she growled at the vet and she tried to bite the technician! I haven't seen that aggressive behavior in her in a LONG time! The vet told us we really need to be more in control of her and some training methods we need to do with her for a little while. And.. since she has SO many toys, she thinks everything on the floor is a plaything... hence why she eats shoes, paper, anything laying on the floor.
So we have to work on that.
Phew! I'm glad we get to start working on her behavior and discipline her a lot more! Steve is always on my butt about "letting her be a puppy". Now he sees why I was so hard on her in the beginning and why I didn't like her playing, growling aggressively at the toys. Maybe now he'll support me when I discipline her; It'll be a little bit harder now since she's so used to having her own way and doing her own thing;
She came home from the vet and she seemed fine and then Steve took her out for a walk and she came home crying in pain! It's the most horrible sound EVER! She didn't want to be picked up... her hind legs must be very tender. I knew she was tired and needed sleep; I wanted to put her in the bathroom and shut the lights and the door to leave her in peace but Steve wanted her with us so after a about 15 minutes Steve realized how badly she needed rest so we put her in the bathroom.
Then I had separation anxiety and couldn't stand not being able to see her so I went in to check on her;
We moved her to the kitchen were she could eat if she wanted and had a place to relieve herself; I stayed with her for awhile until she fell asleep.
Poor little baby.
She woke up this morning ready to go out and tee-tee and poopies. She did fine... I was stern and had to tell her a couple times not to jump or run. I knew that would aggravate her the areas she got shot in.
Steve said she was doing fine this morning when he put her up.
She is now 8.2 lbs!
WOW!
Heartbeat is 150 bpms
Just an overall healthy girl!

Concert in the Park

Sahsha and I went to see the Concert in the Park with Kristen and her boys and we had a BLAST!
It was so fun and relaxing!

Sahsha had been cooped up most of the time since Steve and I had lots of running around to do.

Sahsha had a wonderful time of course and made lots of friends!
She's still scared of the other puppies though. Maybe next weekend when we go she'll do better.

Weekend - just the girls!

My little baby has gotten so big.
Last Sunday, June 4th, she turned three months old. My goodness... where does the time go?
Wow.
Sahsha and I had a lovely weekend together just us girls. Her Daddy went tubing at San Marcos for the weekend with his friends. We walked, we played, we sat and watched TV and everything.
I had to leave her alone a couple times but she seemed ok.
I took her over to Kristen's place and her and Bella played well together but I accidently let Bella out so we had to go find her. Kristen's neighbor was there so she took her puppies out too. She had two Jack Russel Terriers and they were VICIOUS! My goodness. Just as bad as those pomperanians I see at the park. Oh! Poor Sahsha. I had to pick her up most of the time. Then once we found Bella I let Sahsha down just to see what she'd do and she went after those little pit bull wannabees!! I was so surprised. So proud of her for not letting them nasty dogs scare her.
Steve and I were watching Mr & Mrs Smith and Sahsha was sitting next to me trying to go to sleep. That movie is way too loud so of course she couldn't sleep and Steve wouldn't let me lock her up in the bathroom where it was quiet because then she wouldn't sleep all night.
Then later she was holding her head up and it was like she was a bobble head doll and Steve started making fun of her and I laughed so HARD tears were coming out of my eyes!!
Oh my goodness!!
Steve is so hilarious sometimes.
The poor baby was so tired she couldn't hold her head up. I finally just put her in the bathroom and cut the lights and put her in her head so she could get some peace.
Goodness!
This morning I took her out and she did potty. It took her way too long to do number 2 because by the time I got out of the shower, I only had 5 minutes to get ready!
Either I start doing my hair at night or wake up earlier to take her out. She might enjoy a nice walk in the mornings.

Sahsha can come with me everywhere now!

I went to Walmart last night and saw the CUTEST pet carriers!
I got a maroon colored one and it says, HAUTE DOG. So FUNNY. It even has a purse charm that says that. So funny.
Now Sahsha goes EVERYWHERE with me... yippee!!!
I can't wait to take her out in it to see what she'll do.

Coming Home

Sahsha is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO funny! I come home and there she is waiting for me just wagging her tail like crazy! Then the screen door opens and she just jumps and jumps on me till I pick her up.
She stinkin' cute!
I think she might not have slept at all the night before. She was running around in circles and once I got her outside, I couldn't even take her off the leash.. she went CRAZY just running running crazy! She's so fast and it was so dark that I was scared if I took her off the leash she would just run off somewhere and I wouldn't be able to find her.
Goodness!
I think because she didn't sleep she might have had a lot of anxiety.
Stupid people upstairs decided to move in the middle of the night and I'm sure all those noises kept the poor baby up.
I kept her in our room last night so she would calm down and get some rest.
I think it helped.
We'll see tonight.
She's so sweet. I love when it's just us on the couch and she's gnawing on her bone and I'm watching TV and it's just our time together.

Check out the new pics on the slideshow

I posted some new pictures on the slideshow! Hope you like them!
Our experiment is working! Sahsha has definitely helped me open up my feelings box. After a couple loving tender moments, I can really say that I am feeling things again; I know some things and places and people are not safe, but I accept it and risk it instead of shutting down as I have done for the last 11 years. It's so wonderful to really live again. Really live a real life and not in my head. I will be forever grateful to Sahsha for opening up my heart again. She gives love so easily. I am amazed every time she comes to me and plays with me and shows me she loves me. Simply amazed. I cannot fathom why she would love me, but she does. Absolutely amazing. I think of her all the time. At work, I'll just burst out laughing thinking of the crazy things she does and driving home, I just can't wait to see her and pick her up and play with her.
Wow! This puppy has truly changed a lot about me. My whole outlook is different. Just can't believe it.

:-(

I was taking Sahsha out for her walk yesterday and I picked her up to cross the street. She was irritated cause she wanted to walk so once I got to the sidewalk, I was trying to put her down but she squirmed around and fell flat! Oh my GOD! I felt so bad!
I sat on the sidewalk checking her out loving on her and giving her treats until she looked like she was happy again.
When she fell, she stopped for a second, got up and started to walk again and when i called her to me, the look on her sad little face just broke my heart!
Oh my gosh!

AAAAAAAAAAHhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

I had my first accident last night.
I was playing with a toy and trying to make her come get it and when she grabbed it with her mouth I still had it and pulled it away and I got a wicked gash on my finger. When I realized what happened and saw the blood pouring out, I just SCREAMED! Steve thought it was the TV since he was watching the Stephen King movie and then after a couple seconds he realized it was me and came running in. It was too funny. He was bandaging me up and he was like, "I'm not used to this at all! Usually other people are bandanging me up!" He couldn't find the butterfly bandaids ointment and exclaimed, " I need a better triage unit!" this is just not gonna work! He just cracks me up!!
Sahsha did feel bad she came over and licked on my finger..she knew I was hurt. It wasn't her fault.
That was my one fear of being bitten by the pup, but now that's it happened and over, I realized that I have nothing to fear with her.
So it was a good experience.
My finger is fine.. just a little numb and tingly;

I have the best husband in the WORLD!

I just LOVE watching Steve with Sahsha! He's so gentle and kind and sweet and loving! He's so awesome. Makes me fall in love with him all over again.
I have the best husband in the WORLD!

Sahsha is so calm when it's just me and her. We play, she hangs out with me, and just watches TV, we go out for walks, she takes care of business, and everything is nice and happy.. then Steve walks into the room and she's just as hyper as she can be, jumping, crazy, wild! She is so funny.
She loses all focus and I just can't calm her down. It's hilarious.