Chester
Wow, it's been far too long since I've blogged, sorry about that. Lots of things have happened but the most important is Amy and I have a new addition to the family: Chester!
We picked Chester up early in October, when he was just over two months old. He was born on August 4th, 2007 on a farm in Southern Iowa. Once we had the go-ahead from the landlords we drove out to pick him up (just under four hours). He's a pure-breed Pembroke Welsh Corgi.
From the get-go Chester has been a great puppy. He slept through the first night we had him, and generally hasn't woken up in the middle of the night since. He's pretty close to being house trained, just a couple accidents here and there once and a while, nothing major though. He's mild-mannered and very smart, and gets along with our cats just fine (from his perspective anyways, the cats on the other hand...). It seems like his closest cat buddy is Ed, but I'm sure the others will come around soon, they aren't afraid of him, they just don't know how to play with him.
Proving that Corgi's are big dogs in little bodies, Chester has no fear of larger dogs. He loves wresting with Amy's parents labs Chip and Millie and their beagle Toby, Ozzie (Terry and Jamie's German Shepherd), and with my parents large lab Toby. We're really encouraged by this because when we buy our house in the next couple of years we intend on getting a larger dog and it'll be nice knowing that Chester will be able to have fun with it too.
Welcome to the family Chester!
We picked Chester up early in October, when he was just over two months old. He was born on August 4th, 2007 on a farm in Southern Iowa. Once we had the go-ahead from the landlords we drove out to pick him up (just under four hours). He's a pure-breed Pembroke Welsh Corgi.From the get-go Chester has been a great puppy. He slept through the first night we had him, and generally hasn't woken up in the middle of the night since. He's pretty close to being house trained, just a couple accidents here and there once and a while, nothing major though. He's mild-mannered and very smart, and gets along with our cats just fine (from his perspective anyways, the cats on the other hand...). It seems like his closest cat buddy is Ed, but I'm sure the others will come around soon, they aren't afraid of him, they just don't know how to play with him.Proving that Corgi's are big dogs in little bodies, Chester has no fear of larger dogs. He loves wresting with Amy's parents labs Chip and Millie and their beagle Toby, Ozzie (Terry and Jamie's German Shepherd), and with my parents large lab Toby. We're really encouraged by this because when we buy our house in the next couple of years we intend on getting a larger dog and it'll be nice knowing that Chester will be able to have fun with it too.Welcome to the family Chester!
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Chester is a sweetie!
Right now he is running around with the tennis ball and large squeaky Christmas bone in his mouth! =P
I have almost the same exact picture of our cat laying on that couch :P
Dogs don't come cuter than that!
Puppy!!
Cute pictures :-)
Puppy!!! EEEEEE!!!!
Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:)