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Update On Gabbie

I have heard from a lot of you, asking me how my new addition, Gabbie, was doing since we brought her home.  I haven’t written much about her, heck, I haven’t written much of anything since I got her home.  She is something else!  I believe I just might have to go to PetSmart and do the puppy training course.

They say with Chow Chow’s that they pick a family and inside that family they pick a person.  Angel had picked Art.  Gabbie has picked me! It’s really a new experience for me.  I have never had a pet choose me like this dog has.  Just the sound of my voice will make her stop what she is doing with anyone else and come running to me.  It really touches me to see her playing with someone else and when I call her she comes. She has been missing me when I am gone, due to work.

So, let me give you a typical day with Gabbie!

First of all, she sleeps in our bed!  She is getting bigger and we know there won’t be much more time for her to be sleeping in the bed with us.  She cannot jump down yet.  One thing that seems to be bad right now, (I feel like there is a newborn in the house again), is while we are snoozing away at 2 a.m., the cat will walk in the room or one of the other dogs and she will start barking! Waking me up, scaring the crap out of me, thinking someone is in the house! So, I guess you could say she is a great security alarm!  At 6, she gets to go outside, once I have put her on the floor.  She is the first one up and when she is done using the bathroom, she wants back inside.  She will sit at the door and wait.  She won’t bark.  Then she comes into the kitchen and starts drinking the fresh water I have put out, then puts both front paws in the water and does a quick soak and runs all over the house getting my hardwood floors all wet.  She does this about 3 or 4 times a day!  Once that is done and she sees her friends up and getting around, she starts hopping around them like a bunny.  Wanting to play, she bites Taffy’s tail, which makes her do this horridence bark/cry, like she is dying and Gabbie just keeps on and on.  When it is time for getting a treat, which is a dog bone, she goes crazy.  I have to give one to her first because if the others get one, she will go after their bone, which starts a fight. Ughhh!  She is already taking control.  None of the other animals have stood up and taken her under their wing, like a “mother” figure.  They won’t even play with her.  It’s pretty sad but I think they will eventually come around, but maybe not.  I wonder if we got her too soon for them. 

During the day, when I am on the computer, she will come in my office and sit under my feet or lay on the air condition vent.  If I am in the living room she is right there beside me or laying on an air condition vent.  She loves the vents.  She seems to always be hot and having that part of her tummy on a cool spot is great for her.  Maybe that is why she soaks her paws!  Oh, she loves ice cubes!  What a mess that is.  We will put ice cubes in the water bowl outside and she will take her paw and hit them, causing them to come up out of the water like a fish jumping around, and she will grab one with her mouth and chew it!  That is a huge water mess. She loves it.

We will be getting her fixed soon and while that is being done she will also have her eyes worked on.  Her eye lashes are growing inward, causing her eyes to constantly water, leaving the tear stains on her face.  She is getting bigger and pretty soon I will be trying the walk around the block.  My son has already tried it and only got about a quarter of a mile and had to call me to come get her because she wouldn’t go any further with him!  We will see just how far she goes with me.

She likes to go into the bathrooms and empty the garbage or better yet, she likes to get the toilet paper and run with it!  It is reminding me of the scenes from the movie “Marley and Me”.  Our other animals just don’t have the energy that she does.  The one playmate she has, believe it or not, if our cat, Fez.  Poor Fez!  As soon as Gabbie sees him, she runs and play-attacks.  Fez sees her coming and just lays on his back waiting for the pounce.  It is something watching the two of them.  A cat and a chow chow playing!

So these are the days with Gabbers…

1. Gena Riede said at June 24th, 2009 at 5:11 pm

   Gabbie is darling and your blog site is GREAT. Keep up the good work.

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