The most wonderful and annoying things about dog ownership!

Thinking about getting your self a puppy or maybe a full grown dog in need of a home? Never had a dog before? Here is my list of the pros and cons of dog ownership!

Owning a dog or puppy is a lot like taking care of a drunk toddler you never know what they are going to do and you have to watch them almost constantly but on the other hand they are loving and affectionate and when raised right have the possibility to be the sweetest creature you will ever have!

Cons

• They need constant attention. Especially puppies!

The movie UP best described a dogs attention span with the famous seen where the golden retriever Doug is talking then suddenly gets distracted by a squirrel but in most dogs cases or puppies it can be as simple at some lint blowing through the air or god forbid a person walking outside of your house. Let the chaos ensue!

• They will chew up your most prized prepossessions plus the couch.

I have lost sooooo many things to my dogs a hand made stuffed bunny, socks a leg to a chair photographs my lease bills and the list could go on for days if your not watching them your gonna loose stuff!

• They pee and poop where they please at first.

This is a hard thing to deal with for some people I still have a hard time with it but if your not diligent about taking them out your gonna have pee and poop on your floor. Heck sometimes even if your are taking them out regularly they have accidents it happens just have your cleaning stuff on hand.

• Puppies need to be taken out ever few hours even at night.

Like I said they go a lot! Little bladders can wait. I would cry getting up at night to take out my first dog. Then she would sniff around as the minutes ticked by and sometimes she would not even go!  More tears would ensue.

• Picking up poop.

When she did go though oh boy picking up that poop was not pleasant and all between you and smelly warm stuff is a thin peace of plastic. It enough to make anyone wash their hands twice!

• Vet bills.

This is an inevitable when you have a dog you have shots that they need to have regularly plus flea meds and deworming and if something happens to them or they get sick. Your looking at thousands over your dogs life time!

• Dog hair gets everywhere! 

Got a white dog? Well your not going goth anytime soon. Dogs shed some breeds more than other but all dogs shed even the poodle will leave hair around your house. Never mind a husky or akita youll have a fur coat of your own soon!

Pros

• Unconditional love.

Dogs will love you to heaven and back no matter what. Weather your a bad person or a good person. No matter the color of your skin or your gender or even your sexuality. Your dog will love you because your you!

• Playtime any time! 

This is more true with puppies rather than older dogs but all dogs love to play and play and play. They fantastic time killers!  And you'll enjoy every moment of it!

• Fluffy bed warmer! 

Whether you let them up or not you will occasionally find your bed mysteriously warm sometimes dont be mad at them they where just making sure you dont catch a chill!

• You and teach them tricks! 

Dogs are the easiest animal to train in my humble option! They love to please and this makes them very quick to learning even the stubborn ones can be softened up for training with the use of some treats!

• Totally a chick magnet especially puppies! 

Actually puppies are a people magnet in general I have had a big bike dude come up to me all shy and ask if he could pet my puppy but if you want to make new friends take your puppy for a walk!

• Darn cute! 

Want something that will get a lot of likes on all your social media and keep you going aww all day long. Your pupper can do that for you!

• KISSES!

Nuff said.

• They keep you healthy! 

Dont have the motivation to get out an exercise. Your dog will give you that motivation! Walks several times a day for between ten to thirty minutes a day. Not to mention many studies have said that dogs reduces your stress, lower high blood pressure, and keep away depression in some cases. Its a wonder why they are mans best friend!

• Come in many different styles and breeds! 

Are you having trouble choosing your new best friend, its no wonder with all the options out their between all the purebreds and the lovable mutts its going to be harder than you think but one things for sure your local shelter is bursting with new friends waiting to meet you including your new best friend! 

Maja and the crate

All my dogs have been crate trained. From my first dog, freckles the beagle to my poodle Sammy the rainbow dog, and Coco bean will be no exception she will be crate trained like all the others. Now her mother Maja was crate trained rather poorly but crate trained never the less. So when I bought a crate for Coco, Maja naturally assumed it was for her! I put a blanket in the crate and Maja walked right in and laid down happy as a bug in a rug. Its even funnier because I accidentally bought an over sized crate for Coco so Maja looks tiny in this huge crate. I am glad Maja is spending so much time in the crate because it will smell like her and hopefully help the transition to the crate for Coco!

Puppy eyes open!

The beans turned two weeks old on Saturday!
11/2/2018 Coco is the first puppy to open her eyes! I was checking on the puppys and I thought something was wrong with Coco because she was tossing her head from side to side so I picked her up and saw that her eyes where open and she was just looking at the big wide world! I cant quite tell what color her eyes are but they look brown or amber!

11/3/2018 Vanilla opened her eyes sometime in the night. It looks like she has blue eyes! 

Then Lima bean opened his eyes a few hours later and it looks like he has blue eyes too! 

Then at about 2pm today Pinto opened his eyes he was so squirmy that we had trouble getting a picture! 

Husky ears

Since Majas puppies are not a hundred percent husky (They are actually seventy five percent husky twenty five percent lab) I was beginning to wonder if they would have the floppy ears of their dad or the straight ears of their mom. So I did some research and apparently huskies ears don't become straight until between four to six weeks. So their still is a chance that the beans will look like huskies and not adorable puppy mutts! Anyways I know this post was boring so here are some cute puppy pictures.

Puppy Update

A LOT has happened over the weekend with the puppies. Friday night Coco decided to surprise and be the first of the puppies to open her eyes and see the big wide world around her. The other puppies followed her on Saturday in the order of Vanilla, Lima and then Pinto! All three of the white ones have blues eyes while Coco looks to have brown eyes but I cant be sure on Cocos eyes because she does not open them very wide. Then on Sunday Coco and Pinto started walking on very shaky legs but walking never the less. They all now seem to be walking with some trial and error they seem walking a few steps before falling. I must say the Jelly leg walk is very very cute. I will be posting a video on youtube before long.

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Social Media (bonus post)

So I noticed that many of you might not know my other social media accounts with which to keep up with all the puppies and monster so I have deiced to make that right through a bonus post!
Deviantart! https://www.deviantart.com/monstermotley
Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/monstermotleycrew/
Facebook page for Maja and the beans! https://www.facebook.com/Maja-and-the-Beans-842449709478849/?view_public_for=842449709478849
Monsters Facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/Monster-and-her-motley-crew-702073986596955/?view_public_for=702073986596955
Donations! https://streamlabs.com/monstermotley
Amazon wishlist!  https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/25GGAY0UMQUA0
Twitter! https://twitter.com/MonsterVMotley
So these are all the social media that I use and ways you can lend your support to us and the animals thank you all so much for reading and have a wonderful day!
Heres a puppy picture!

Messy Eaters

Maja and Monster have something common that drives me nuts. They are both very messy eaters. Maja cant eat her food unless she takes it out of her bowl. This inculds the messy treats that we give her like rice or chicken or anything with gravy. I have tried feeding her on the lament floors to reduce the mess but she will drag her bowl over to the carpet to eat or if we feed her wet food in one of those plastic little dishes she will pick it up and carry it over to the carpet. I try not to get mad at her but this drives me nuts and now her food is on my rug which is easy to clean and she takes it to the carpet that I dont have an easy time cleaning. I swear she is doing it just so she can laugh at me cleaning it up. Now Monster on the other hand likes to stick her paw in her wet food to eat it and then she flings her wet food off her paw once she has licked all the gravy off resulting in her wet food being on the walls. I think I would rather have her take the dry food to the carpet rather than splatter my walls with wet food.
Anyone else have these troubles with their pets? How did you solve the issue? Is it a solvable issue?

Another Vet visit!

So since we had little faith in our old vet, since she was a week from birth and he could not tell she was pregnant, we had a visit with a new vet yesterday. At lovely VCA Oshtemo pet hospital and saw the wonderful vet named Amber. I could tell right away that this vet was loads better than our old one. From the minute we walked in they fawned over our animals and treated us like we where really welcome. Then we get into the room within a minute maybe less of arriving. A vet assistant come in and says she would like to see the puppies and proceeds to coo and fawn over the puppies with delight while not being neglectful of Maja. Where as Maja was always terrified of our old vet she seemed almost at easy by the end of the appointment. The puppies all weighed in at over two pounds and seem to be developing quite nicely. I will have a youtube video up when its edited.

Another thing that happened yesterday was Vanilla got to meet her future mom. She was so calm and happy in the woman's hands I know its going to be a great match they seem so well suited for each other! 

The weights are as follows.
Vanilla Bean 2.3 lbs
Lima Bean 2.3 lbs
Coco Bean 2.5 lbs
Pinto Bean 2.8 lbs
Maja 42 lbs

Sorry there are not any pictures all I took was video so the video will be up tonight! Youtube.com and search MonsterMotley and its the channel with the cat picture!

Poor Kitty

I think the hardest adjustment of having puppies has been how Monster is trying to adjust. All her encounters with dogs other than Maja have been negative. She was terrified of Maja when I brought Maja home. It took me leaving for three and a half months and Maja being one of her only companions to get use to Maja. THEN BAM PUPPIES. I don't think the puppies would be so bad if it where not for the fact that Maja has turned aggressive on her. I understand mothers instinct and wanting to protect her puppies but I wish she would remember that Monster is her friend and not bite my cat. I am hoping that when the puppies go Maja will be a little more accepting of Monster. If anyone has any advice on helping Maja and Monster become friends again I would love to hear it I am so scared that Maja is going to kill Monster.

The Beans are a week old!

This Saturday the beans turned one week old! I am so proud of them they are big strong and healthy. They can almost stand and their crawl is starting to develop into more of a walk! They can also yawn which is super cute. I have yet to catch yawns on camera though!
Coco Bean!

Pinto Bean! 

Vanilla Bean! 

and last but most certainly not least is Lima Bean! 

First Vet visit!

So the beans had their first vet visit today! This being with the same vet who said that Maja was not pregnant! Anyways... The puppers all seem to be doing good all fat and healthy even the runt does not seem like a runt to the vet just the smallest of the litter still weighing at over half a pound without even being a week old! The did apparently comment on how skinny Maja was but like we have noticed she has been skinny ever since we got her! While she has put on weight since we have had her she has been hovering around 38 pounds. Thats why when we took her to the vet for a pregnancy test and she was 45 pounds we guessed we might have puppies on our hands and we guessed right but long story short Maja and the beans are happy and healthy!
Sorry I dont have more details I was at my own doctors appointment at the time I apparently sprained my shoulder OUCH!
Here is a picture of them today in their car ride!

Poor Mother Maja

Poor mother Maja she never gets a moment to herself her ever waking thought is consumed with her puppies but I suppose thats the way it is with all mothers! She will get out the box to stretch and scratch only to run back at ever little peep and squeak. All she wants is a break from the beans but even going outside has her wanting to come back in worried. Poor Maja.
On the other hand she has been holding it in so long trying to stay with the beans that she had a pretty large accident in the house luckily it was not on the carpet but rather on the vinyl where it was easy to clean up so good dog Maja!

Monster is getting more and more curious about the strange noises in the whelping box and that has increased Maja anxiousness ten fold! Funny thing is when I showed Monster a puppy she was absolutely terrified of the puppy hissed at it and ran. Nope puppies are not Monsters forte! 

Maja and the beans. WARNING CUTENESS OVERLOAD!

We have hesitantly settled on some temporary names for Maja and her beans!
Ladies first!

So the brown black and white one formally known as Cookie has been rechristened Coco Bean! And her sister laying right next to her is named Vanilla Bean!
Now on to the boys!

The bigger of the two boys is now known as Pinta Bean and the runt of the little is Lima Bean Ive managed to tell the two apart because Lima bean has a darker muzzle and little black spots on his paws!
Bounus picture of Lima!

Look at that adorable little tongue isnt he so cute!

WARNING TMI POST

So lets get down and dirty into the gritty truth about puppies or more importantly the mother dog. So when the beans where born Maja was in so much pain that she was biting the couch and screaming. It killed my I wanted to cry along with her I hated seeing my baby in pain. Each time when the puppies where born they where born in a sac called placenta we actually had to get in there and rip open the sac because Maja couldn't get it. Then Maja proceeded to eat the placenta and clean her puppies and when the next one came we would take the last puppy so she didnt step or bite the puppy and we would dry off the puppy in a towel. Well due to her eating the sac we now have an unforeseen consequence it causes diarrhea VERY VERY BAD diarrhea poor Maja has to go out every few hours and three to six times at night to go potty. I think the next time that Maja has puppies I wont let her eat the sac because this poor girl is not a happy camper.
There is also one more thing that I have noticed that is not TMI but kinda sad and frustrating. Every litter has a runt and out litter runt is not that small but still smaller than the rest of the litter and I have noticed that Maja seems not to let the runt latch or feed off her because she either does not have enough milk because naturally the runt is the last to eat. Another reason the runt does the weird jerking when he eats he thrashes his head from side to side very violently for a puppy who weighs less than a pound. So because of that Maja naturally does not want to feed it. Our bottles for the puppy should be coming tomorrow and we will start puppy feeding out of a bottle till then heres to hoping and praying that he is getting enough till then.
I will keep you guys updated just follow the blog!

New additions to the family!

Yesterday morning my roommates dog Maja delivered four healthy beautiful puppies. Two males two females. They are named Sugar, Vanilla Bean, Cream and Cookie! Cookie the Brown black and white one will be my puppy to be trained to be a service dog for my disability. We had to begun to suspect that she was pregnant because she began developing and gaining weight so we took her to the vet and the vet did a feel test and declared that she was having a false pregnancy! So we took her home and started cracking jokes about how she was a hormonal teen! Little did we know... Less than a week later we head to a friends birthday party and sleep till 10am at 11am as we where getting up and around we get a call from our dog sitter. "Hello? Uhm Maja just delivered a puppy on my couch." So we rush to get things together and come over to find Maja and her beautiful puppy Cream cuddled on the couch within 30 minutes of arriving we had our second puppy Cookie! The last two Sugar and Vanilla Bean where born 15 and 30 minutes apart and our little family was complete! Thanks for joining me on this wild ride I will keep you guys updated on the puppies!