Emma and Jack are getting along great as always. They are so happy to have each other and watching them play together really does bring so much joy to my heart! I miss my one on one cuddle time with Emma (Jack doesn't like to share attention) but I know they are so much happier playing together.
A couple of weeks ago I took both dogs to a local pet store to get caught up on all the vaccines. There were so uber excited to go out and see other people and other dogs, oh my! However, after taking both dogs by myself, I don't think I'd ever do that again without Miguel. What a mess! Jack especially was a handful. He wanted to say hello to EVERYONE by jumping on them. This is not allowed, obviously, but he hasn't quite learned that yet. To complicate things more I was using a connected leash so Emma was pulled with Jack wherever he decided to lunge at the moment. Emma did not like this because she was more interested in trying her very hardest to eat the cats that were there.
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| Notice how twisted the leash is... |
Jack did just fine with his vaccines. He wagged and licked the vet and technician. Emma, however, struggled and struggled and struggled. She was not happy camper!
Jack's favorite thing has to be riding in the car! If we ever pick up our keys or make a noise that sounds like it might be keys being picked up he dashes over to you and looks up with those big brown eyes, wide smile and wagging his tail a million miles per hour! Sometimes when Jack is being stubborn and doesn't want to come inside when we are calling him, we will open the car and let him jump in just so we can catch him to bring him inside =) Emma likes the car as long as we stay off the highway and are going for short trips. They both try to help us drive if the car windows are up.
If we are going on long trip Jack ends up sleeping most of the way, but Emma freaks out! We have to keep her in the backseat but she tries her hardest to get up in the drivers lap. So much so that she will stand on Jack if he sits on the left side. =)
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| Poor Jack ;) |
Emma is so bad on long car rides that we finally had to get a prescription for her. We tried over the counter dog anti-anxiety pills, Benadryl, and Dramamine but nothing worked. This stuff works much better. Poor Emma! She really tries her hardest to keep her eyes open, but it definitely is a struggle! She looks so stoned! Haha! Bless her little heart!
So funny story about Jack and the car. I so wish I had a picture to accompany this story! Miguel ran to the post office to pick up a package before Christmas and took the dogs with him in the car. We always roll up the car windows so the dogs can't get out... because some dogs (Jack, of course... it's always Jack) have been known to jump out. While Miguel was standing in the long holiday line at the post office, a woman ran in and said, "Someone's dog is climbing out a car." Miguel thought to himself, "It can't be my dogs because my windows are rolled up". Then the woman announced that the dog was climbing out the sunroof of a cream colored car. Miguel dismissed this because his car is white not "cream". But once they started describing the dog Miguel thought it would be best to go out and just make sure it wasn't Jack. When Miguel got out to the parking lot he was greeted by Jack who was standing on top of the car with a confused look as he was contemplating the best way to get down. =) I just laugh at that image! Miguel put Jack back in the car, shut the sun roof and went back into the post office to a round of applause from all the waiting customers! Jack is so silly! I love that puppy!
Like I said earlier in this post, Emma and Jack are best friends, but Jack does not like to share! Emma used to sleep on her doggie bed every night. Then It turned into sharing it with Jack:
Then it turned into Jack and Emma sorta still sharing...
But now Emma sleeps under the bed...
Haha, poor thing! I just think it's so cute that she sleeps under the bed. She always like to be under even when she was a puppy. And of course now Jack has returned to putting himself to sleep in his crate. I guess the dog bed has lost its appeal now that Emma doesn't care to sleep there anymore.
Well that's all I can think of dog-wise at the moment! Hopefully Jack will calm down some in 2012, but I won't love him any less if he doesn't! Fingers crossed though! ;)
