First Bath!

What is this - first carpet!

Snuggling with Charlie!

Watching the girls play.

Getting ready to play tag.

Anna’s sun hat or chew toy?

2nd is Beckett - one of th eSherriff dogs who really is just a big puppy in a dog body - he has very few positive life experiences in his short troubled 2.5 years of chained up life!

Dear Yvette,

Beckett’s doing great. He’s calmed down a bit since our first encounter

(where he really didn’t want to get in the car and slipped out of his

collar twice and went running back to the other dogs. Once we got moving

he was fine though (took him awhile to figure out that laying down or

sitting was easier than trying to look out the windows). He liked looking

out the back window at the other cars behind us and it kept him mostly

occupied.

 We caught the ferry back at 3. A miracle since we were only there at 2:57

or something of the sort. The lady at the counter took a little pity on us

I guess and it wasn’t very full. So we let Beckett out and Jerrad ran him

around the nearly 1/2 empty deck. His leash manners need some improvement,

but after a few missteps he’s definately learning to look up to make sure

he knows where he’s going. On the ferry we also figured out he quite

dislikes stairs. We brought him up a deck to get some fresh air, but he

would not go back down them. Jerrad ended up carrying him.

 

Once we got home he took the longest pee I’ve ever seen a dog take. Good

thing he held it! He has found his bed, and after a bit of persuasion (and

after he knew he couldn’t have any of our people food) he chomped down his

own. He’s been tagging around, curious about what we’re doing. He most

enjoys watching us do dishes (not quite sure why, perhaps its more

interesting than sitting around, etc).

 

He’s slept through one of the two nights he’s been home -the first I think

I truck going by spooked him, but after a bit he settled back down. He’s

enjoying his morning walks. Up early, out for about half an hour to an

hour (he’s a bit hard on the leash so we’re trying for more walks for less

amounts of time right now), less annoying for all of us. He likes the

flowers, and when we took him to the park yesterday he met a few smaller

dogs and was friendly. The barking dogs we walked past he didn’t seem to

care about. He’s such a quiet, well-mannered fellow.

 

Otherwise, not much has happened -to the licenser today (they weren’t open

Saturday by the time we got home and not on Sundays), and then to the

vet’s for a quick check up and to see about heartworm preventative (or

something of the sort), I’m sure the vets know what they need. The best

part of Beckett though is that he’s quite the cuddler. He sleeps on his

own bed at night, but in the mornings after his walk we usually crawl back

into bed for an hour and he jumps in with us.

I think he’s settling in well, seems like he enjoys not having a bunch of

other dogs to compete with. And he always looks so happy with his big

smile. Thank you Yvette,

 I’ll send pictures when I figure out how to work the camera and the

computer together -perhaps a rather large feat for me.

 Sincerely,Emily and Jerrad

3rd is Beautiful Haley!

Val

          Jackie