Weighing In

Emme went to the vet’s yesterday for a puppy shot. They weighed her and she weighs 5.2 pounds. That is up a pound from her first visit three weeks ago. That is amazing when you consider the percentage gain in weight. I guess she is getting enough nutrition in the 1/3 cup portions that she doesn’t finish. She is really growing and should wind up weighing about 12 pounds. That is the weight of her mother and a sister from a previous litter.

She was pretty good at the vet’s but when we went into the office, I was carrying her and I could feel her heart beat speed up considerably. She doesn’t have any negative association with the vet’s so it must have been the many new smells. She was fine, however, with the vet and the assistant touching her. She fussed when she got the shot, but that was inevitable. I also asked them to trim the hair around her eyes. She won’t be able to go to the groomer until she has all of her puppy shots and by then, her eyes would have been completely covered with hair. I didn’t want to get near her eyes with a pair of scissors because she is so wiggly. They took her away and returned her with her eyes showing. A big improvement.

I have been calling groomers in town to get information and to get a feel for their personalities as we talked. After talking to a number of groomers, I think I have chosen a groomer on the north side of town because I liked what she had to say. Emme’s last puppy shot is at the end of October so we will plan to take her to the groomer the beginning of November for a “puppy cut.” It should make brushing her a little easier because she sill have less hair. I hate to think of cutting her fluffy puppy hair, but if we don’t have her groomed, she will get lost in all that hair. The beginning of November is also the beginning of the next puppy classes at the local kennel and I am planning to take Emme to them. It will be a big month.