It's not all a bed of roses

Last night was tough for us and for scrumpy! As soon as we turned the light off at around 11pm he howled for ages but we ignored him as best we could.

We were more worried about what the neighbours were hearing! (however I have now gone next door to apologise but they didn't hear a thing - phew)

I dropped off eventually but at around midnight I heard it again so I went downstairs.

Scrumpy had shredded his puppy pad and there was a huge puddle of mucus from his kennel cough.

I cleared it all up and went back to bed.

His howling started again so a got my slipper and banged it on the floor. He seemed to settle. This was repeated a few more times and then there was peace. He knew we were there and would come back to him. Ahhhhhh.

I got up half an hour early this morning to spend some time with scrumpy before I go to my part time job. He was asleep when I came down to greet him lol. There was good use of his puppy pad but as soon as I started to fuss him he did a big "mr whippy" pile on the floor.

We are a little concerned as we have noticed some blood in his poo so we will have monitor that over the next few hours.

He is snoozing away in the sofa next to me as I type.

Couch potato comes to mind.

More later so do check back.

Continued....

Whilst I was at work, I checked in with Ian to see how Scrumpy was doing.  Ian was concerned about the level of blood in Scrumpy's poo, something that we noticed yesterday, so he phoned the Dorset Dog Rescue lady who kindly booked him into their vets - Natterjacks for an afternoon appointment.

http://www.natterjacksvet.com/

So once I was home from work, we took Scrumpy in the car, wrapped in a towel for warmth, and he slept nearly all the way - an hour long journey.

Once there we were seen by a very nice vet who remembered Scrumpy from the time when he was first brought into them for a health check.  Scrumpy was given a worming tablet and an antibiotic injection along with a course of tablets that he has to take for the next 7 days to help his digestive system.

We were also advised to get him onto a complete pet food which we totally agree with, so we went for Purina Puppy Sensitive.  All I have to do now is to work out how much to give him, so I am going to pop over to their website now to do just that.

Unfortunately I couldn't work it out so I put a shout out on Twitter and my good twitter pal Ian helped me out - Scrumpy should be getting between 60 - 120g per day, so as he's used to 3 meals a day at the moment he'll be getting 40g per day as he needs feeding up a bit.

Scrumpy is currently on the sofa, having a little sleep by Ian's leg.......

Probably more to come later!

Purina feeding guide that confused me

Scrumpy helping with the washing up in the bath as we currently don't have a kitchen sink due to some building works at the house

Scrumpy is bored with puppy pad training!

This is Scrumpy

This is Truly Scrumptious 

or

Scrumpy

(that's the short version)

Here are some pictures taken at his Puppy Foster Home

 one of the many Foster Homes 

organised by Dorset Dog Rescue

And here he is with his brother - one of his many siblings

Scrumpy is a Pointer / Springer X 

And here he is in his new home

Getting all settled in

That bone is nearly as big as him

I think his purple collar is rather dashing!

And here he's already found the warmth of the AGA

And here he's found the comfort of the sofa!

All in less than 24 hours too.

UPDATE

Who needs to buy expensive pet shop toys when the cardboard middle from a Kitchen Roll will do and believe me we will have loads of those as we have gone through one roll today already!

That's not to say that he's been a bad puppy, not at all, he's just had a few near misses with his puppy pads that's all.  At one point he went running towards one, skidded on the wood floor, managed to fold the puppy pad into a concertina and wee'd on that!!  YAY - treat given for making it to the right spot!

We had our neighbours pop in for a bit of puppy love!

They have 2 dogs - lovely Jack Russells, so as soon as Scrumpy is ready he's going to meet them for some Puppy Socialising 

Ian and I were thrilled today when this MASSIVE puppy pen arrived via Amazon.co.uk today

We only ordered it yesterday, but I sent a "flutter my eyelashes" type message to the company that sold them asking them to send it ASAP and guess what - they did!!

As it arrived today - it was very easy to put together and is very spacious as you can see.

It's handy for when the door rings or when we need to pop to the loo, when we are eating etc.  If anyone wants the link let me know!

Ian has just gone running after Scrumpy, lifted him on to a puppy pad and is saying "empty".  Scrumpy is looking at Ian as if he is mad - LOL

Oh he did a wee - hooray - a little treat is now in progress 

FAB

Scrumpy is all booked in to see the Vets next week - with no less than Vet Alison that took care of our last dog - she's so good, so we wouldn't have wanted anyone else.  

He's going to get his 2nd Jab and microchipping.

We have also go our Dog Insurance Quote via Animal Friends, so I think we are all sorted and can all enjoy a few more hours snuggled on the sofa together now!