Still Stressed

Ellie Stats: 1 year and 5 months old

• Ellie has had diarrhea off and on all month. We think it's still stress from people randomly shooting fireworks.

Ellie Hates the Fireworks

Ellie Stats: 1 year and 5 months old

• Ellie is having some diarrhea. We think it’s due to stress caused by the fireworks. She is apparently still very scared of them.

Ellie the Cuddle Bug

Ellie Stats: 1 year and 3-6 months old

• Over the past three months, Ellie hasn’t really chewed up anything. She’s really coming into her own and starting to act more like an adult. She is very affectionate and loving, and loves to get on the couch and snuggle even when there's obviously no room for her. lol She also sits her butt on the plush chair and couch in the livingroom; it’s very funny.

• Occasionally she acts as though she’s afraid of men. She wants to meet everybody, but she’s just a little slow to warm up to guys. She also still doesn’t like to be outside on her own.

Ellie Eats Drywall

Ellie Stats: 1 year and 3 months old

• Ellie hasn’t chewed up anything in quite a while, but she somehow chewed a hole in the livingroom wall yesterday. The WALL!! Wtf?! Hopefully this will not be a trend…
• She's still scared of stuff outside, and keeps almost constant vigilance in the livingroom window.
• Ellie is starting to hesitantly bark and even sometimes growl at things outside when she’s in the house. I guess she's starting to act a little like a pyr. She sometimes surprises herself, though, as if she doesn’t know the noise came from her. lol
• Still runs and hides whenever Samson barks at anything.
• Still has her puppy coat - very soft and very thick.

Happy Birthday, Ellie!

Ellie Stats: 1 year old – Happy Birthday, Ellie!

• Ellie’s a year old, and while she hasn’t chewed up anything in the past couple of weeks, she did destroy our tree skirt the first night that we had it under the christmas tree; she’s also continued to chew up a few other things including our comforter (for a second time). Hopefully she’s almost done with that behavior.
• She’s still fearful about some things, but getting a little braver.
• Samson seems to have finally noticed her and is starting to play with her every night. He’s also trying to “dominate” her. Been trying to teach him better manners…
• Ellie is about as tall as Samson, but is still a skinny puppy. I guess she’ll fill out over the next year like Samson did.

Growing Pains

Ellie Stats: 7 months old, 80-ish lbs.

• Ellie’s been limping a lot. We think it’s growing pains and have been giving her half an aspirin to help with the pain.
• Probably related to the aspirin (and because Travis didn’t give her some food to go with it), Ellie threw up several times yesterday and overnight. She seems to be better today (haven’t given her any aspirin today) and so we gave her just a little bit of food to see how she keeps it down. So far so good…

LESSON LEARNED: Always give FOOD with aspirin!

Starting to Grow Up

Ellie Stats: 7 months old

• Ellie’s personality seems to be transitioning from puppy to adult. She’s been a little less playful all the time and a little calmer. Sleeping more; eating less.
• Ellie chewed up the kitchen rug. Apparently she still hasn’t learned that those are off limits…