Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Day 70 Chinook Centennial Litter Pup-date

Many have asked - Yes Washington is still with us and yes he has a new forever home. He will be living with another Chinook and her family in Denver, Colorado. In the mean time socialization and new noise/surface/visual exposures continue.
To improve the human space, the whelping condo was reduced by 4 sq ft. Plenty of room for one boisterous puppy.  Washington has the perfect pitch to start BrownStone pack howl-ins.
Outside for a beautiful morning play and discovery.
Trask and Koyuk immediately took away all toys I presented to Washington. Seems the inner-puppy has come out in them. They play tug with each other a lot these days.
 Mom Koyuk and Washington soaking up the fall sun together.
Washington is a chewer. If it fits in his mouth, it is worth chewing on.
Koyuk consoling Washington after I removed the kindling and covered the pile.
 Grandma Cedar with Washington.
After lunch we went out to cover sailboats. First I tethered Washington to a boat cushion. The strong boy was able to drag it to all sorts of places he could get into trouble. Then he was tethered to the tiller and rudder...
they proved much more difficult to drag around, not for want of trying. The head of the sail was too tempting to chew upon.
 Later he got his first professional pedicure.
Meanwhile Toolik was exploring his new, wonderful digs in Alaska.
Not sure yet how his new much older brother is taking to having a curious puppy in the household. I think he just wants to ignore the situation.
 More exploration.
Toolik even his own fresh water drinking fountain...
 or he can just look up and gulp the rain. He is in SE Alaska after all.
 Last bit of play for the day and...
 crash.
My guess is that both dogs are crashed right now. I do know that Washington is.