New Puppies!!

Guess what?? The local animal shelter just got a new dog (Darby) that was very pregnant, and on December 27th, Darby gave birth to TWELVE puppies!! Unfortunately, four of the puppies died :( But there's still eight left, and Darby is sickly. The shelter has asked people if they can to come and bottle feed the puppies every four hours. But whoever does that has to be 16 or older, and I'm only 15 :(

But, they said they will definitely need lots of foster homes for them once they're weaned, so that will be around February 11th, and mom said we can foster one!! EEP!! I can NOT(!!) wait!! I'll get to train it, get it used to people and i absolutely LOVE(!!) doing that!! I love training dogs, it's SOOO much fun for me!!!! I feel really accomplished when they learn something :)

That's why I love the pet-sitting job I have twice a week. My neighbor, Mrs. Diane, got a little puppy named Lily a while back, and she's SO cute! She asked me to come and watch her and help train her for an hour on Tuesdays and Fridays, while she can go upstairs and do whatever, and not have to worry/watch about Lily. It's a lot of fun! I also get paid $7 an hour, so $14 a week which ain't bad for me, lol. I've taught Lily to lay down, shake, go lay down (in her bed), and roll over. Mrs. Diane already taught her to sit. I wanna teach her more things, but I can't think of any... Got any ideas?? I really need some!

Anyways, Here are two pictures of Darby and her puppies when they were a day old. For the record, I did NOT take these pictures. These came off of the shelter website.


















































Until next time, my friends!