The "Little Devil" at 10 weeks

Gus is alive and well giving us constant pleasure and grief!! He is eating everything and anything. He must be retaining some of it as he is now 18 pounds. With all the chewing the little guy does it is amazing he has any sharp milk teeth left, but he does. For all the complaining I must now throw him a bone. His housebreaking has been almost effortless and I am only getting up once a night to go out(I still watch him like a hawk ;-) ) His acclamation to Ang, the lake and shop has been good as he thinks he is the boss of all three....four if you want to throw me in. I love how he alerts at anything different and at such an early age makes me think I actually picked just what I wanted. However, the jury is still out on that one. LOL

Here he is one week later.

We weighed him this morning and has already gained 5 pounds in one week!!! He may look cute in this picture but that is just a disguise. He is a mastermind in disobeying,chewing and causing disruptions on a regular basis. LOL He does have the drive I wanted, but yet hate when they are this young, and then love soooo much when they get older and start their training. He has successfully trained us to spoil him but what he doesn't know is when the training starts he gets to do what we want. Don't feel bad for him as everyday he goes to the shop with me and then spends the nights at our house. How many dogs do you know that get two car rides a day? He also has been on a few boat rides as well. His training is starting although only in a very light format of walking on a lead and potty training and that our arms, fingers, legs and feet are not there for his chewing pleasure. Trust me, those little milk teeth are as sharp as any needles your doctor has stuck you with. While being quite stubborn he shows lots of smarts and I will look forward to some serious training sessions in another few weeks. Well I better end this for now as he needs to go out for a break and stay awake a little longer so I can get some sleep. His potty training is coming along as the first week we were out at least every two hours and now he sleeps until about three a.m. before nature calls. His inner clock works well also as at six a.m. he lets you know it is breakfast time and after his meal comes thirty to forty minutes of raising cane and anything else he can think of to expend energy.

Here he is! Safe and sound at home at 8 weeks.

We finally got him. Ang elected to stay home as it was a longer drive and we knew it wouldn't be all fun coming home with him. We purchased him from Randi's Rotts whom I would refer to anyone. After much thought and looking over the group of available boys I picked the yellow collared boy. It was rough to pick but he seemed to have more drive than the others and as you can see he is as cute as a button. I picked him out on Saturday and went back very early Sunday morning (Thanks Randi) to start our 12 hour drive ( with potty breaks) home. At first Gus was very unimpressed that I chose him and displayed his displeasure with a serenade that lasted a little over an hour. This was one time I was happy my hearing isn't very good. He finally wore himself out and the gentle rocking of the car kept him sleeping most of the time making the trip a little more bearable. Once home he met his new mom and we all sat around and tried to calm him and assure him we are all family now. He weighs in at a whopping 10 pounds and was given a check up the next morning.