Elsa, the red one, had just left us. The picture above is one of the last photos that we took of her while she was playing with our red Doberman boy Skylar. She found a home with a police officer and has another Doberman boy to play with.
Now suddenly we were down to two almost identical looking black Doberman puppy girls, Lilly and Princess, and our own red adult Doberman boy. I vividly recall how much less work it was to have only two puppies to care for but also how much we missed sweet little Elsa.
I still feel a sting in my heart when I look at her photos. She was incredibly cute, adorable and beautiful, but we couldn’t keep more than one puppy. So we had to make a decision and let Elsa go first. We had two more weeks before we needed to finally decide which puppy to keep out of the two remaining black ones and the photos in this post are from these last two weeks, where both of them were with us. The puppies were about nine to ten weeks old.
Lilly snuggling on my lap. Who can resist such an innocent little face?
Do you also love puppy paws? Princess exhausted after a bath sleeping on my lap wrapped up in a warm towel.
Princess, following the big ones lead.
The energy level and enthusiasm, here Princess running full speed, with which the puppies conquered their world never failed to amaze me.
Always curious and…
…alert.
“Can I whisper something in your ear”?
Skylar and Princess sharing an intimate moment.
“What are you sniffing? I want to sniff that, too.”
“Oh, you are playing with a stick, let me play with you!”
Even as young puppies they could do very quick turns on a dime.
The puppies were always all over Skylar wanting to play with him, but also testing the boundaries and sometimes simply being obnoxious. Most of the time Skylar was very patient and tolerant with them, but sometimes when he really couldn’t take it anymore, even he got cranky. We had to constantly watch, supervise, and make sure that he got a timeout from all the puppy silliness and also that none of the puppies got hurt.
Each evening before we all would go to bed we had a ritual. My husband and I were going into the X-pen in which we kept the puppies overnight and cuddle with them. Skylar would sometimes join as well.
It really felt like a family is together.
The puppies were tired from the day and usually climbed on my husband’s and or on my lap and Skylar would be in the middle between us making sure that he wasn’t excluded.
Princess leaning on my husband’s leg, Lilly on my lap looking up to me.
Princess banging her little paw on Skylar’s head. Somehow that was one of the puppies favorite things to do and understandably Skylar didn’t always like it.
Lilly has been fallen asleep after a long exciting day in my lap and Skylar is checking her out.
As I said earlier, at this point, we had two more weeks to come up with our final decision which puppy to keep. It was a very tough and difficult decision to make. Come back for my next post and find out, which puppy would stay with us.
Christina
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