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Sunday, May 7, 2017

This Is The One!

Today I want to continue the story of the three little rescue Doberman puppies that we took on in April last year. In the photos in this post, Princess and Lily are about ten weeks old and they were taken in the last four days when we had both puppies. Elsa, the third puppy, was already adopted out to someone who looked she was giving her a good home.

At that point, the two remaining puppies were relentless in their desire to play with Skylar, our red adult Dobie boy, who was mostly a good sport and put up with them.

Here Skylar is wrestling with Lily, do you see how he is holding her down with his right front leg? Of course, Princess wants to be part of the game, too.

Lily found a way to free herself from Skylar's grip.

The two pups also enjoyed playing with each other...

...but somehow bugging Skylar was even more fun.

Often all three dogs loved involving their humans into their play as well. Yes, these are famous Doberman teeth!

Sometimes it pays off to hide between the legs of the master.

But not for too long and then it was on with the game with Skylar again. And when one puppy was playing with Skylar the second one wasn't too far away...

...and most often ready to join the action.

Lily proudly claiming a garden chair.

Skylar trying to discipline Lily,

...which worked for a moment: She is rolling on her back and showing her belly in submission towards him.

Little Lily practicing the "Doberman attitude".

Lily: "You don't want to play with me anymore?"

Lily: "Hah, I know there was a way to get you engaged again."

But sometimes even the puppies had enough from their play and climbed on their master's warm legs to rest and relax.

Or, for even more comfort they climbed on top of each other on their master's legs and exhaustedly fell a sleep.

Princess, on the left and Lily, on the right being alert.

Lily: "Can I have your toy?"

Lily: "Heh, didn't you hear me, can I have your toy?"

For my husband and me, these last days were bittersweet since we finally had made our decision which puppy to keep and we knew it was only a matter of time until we had to let go of the second puppy.

In the end, we choose Lily to stay with us. It was incredibly hard to make a pick between her and Princess since we loved them both so much and they were very good puppies.

Lily had a slightly lower energy level than Princess, which we preferred and also seemed to be the most confident puppy out of the three, which indicated that she could become a good balancing companion for our a somewhat anxious boy Skylar. It also looked like Lily felt emotionally more drawn to me whereas Princess seem to prefer my husband. Since Skylar is already "my husband's boy" we hoped that Lily would pick me as her primary "go-to human".

We also consulted with our very knowledgeable and highly valued dog trainer and friend Alexandra Gant (Behave!), before making our decision. She thought that out of the three puppies Lily would be the best fit for Skylar and us and we took her advice into serious consideration when making our decision.

So it was Princess that we needed to say goodbye to. She got adopted by a Doberman lover, who had already an adult Doberman girl and we believe that she is in a very good home. Nonetheless, writing this post made my eyes tearing up and I am feeling a big lump in my throat. It is incredible how attached we got to the puppies in the brief five to six weeks we had the privilege to take care of them.

I will continue to write about Lily and her development and I hope that you will enjoy following how she grows up from a cute and silly puppy into a beautiful mature Doberman girl.

If you like to read and see more of our adorable little rescue Doberman pups, you find my older posts about them here:

And Then There Were Only Two!

The Rescue Doberman Puppies Are Growing Fast

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

The Rescue Doberman Puppies Are Growing Fast

I wanted to report about our Doberman rescue puppies much more frequently, but alas my life has been too demanding to do so. But here I am today with another post about our little Doberman girls. In the following photos they have been eight to nine weeks old.

Here they are outside in our garden contained in a big X-Pen playing with Skylar, our adult red Doberman Pinscher, who is also a rescue Doberman. Playing for the Doberman puppies meant at this age nipping Skylar everywhere and all the time. From the left to the right right you see Elsa, Princess and Lilly.

For a male Doberman Pinscher Skylar was amazingly patient with them, but often even he had enough and needed some alone time to prevent things from getting out of hand. It is still amazing to me how much energy these little puppies had.

My husband bought stadium seats for us to have a more comfortable way to sit down and spent time with them in the X-Pen. Like everything else they made perfect chewing objects for them.

We got the puppies when they were about four weeks old and even though on these photos they are still very small in comparison to our mature Doberman boy, they had grown tremendously in the four to five weeks that we had them when these photos were taken.

Lilly and Skylar in one of the rare moments of quite when the puppies were awake.

The puppies at that age had still only three modes: Sleeping, playing and eating. Here Lilly crashed on the stadium seat.

They continued to love to huddle together for warmth and emotional comfort.

There was always something to sniff.

Elsa, on the right, sometimes could look pretty feisty already...

...and sometimes like the young, elegant, graceful Doberman lady that she was about to become.

They were so full of life and ready to explore the world. "What's next?" seemed to be a constant expression in their little faces.

Lilly, being curious and playful...

...and moments later giving you the typical, intense, fierce Doberman stare already

Love this profile photo of Lilly with her sister Princess in the background.

Lilly playing between the legs of my husband.

Gorgeous little girl!

The three siblings playing together. Elsa and Lilly are insight the X-Pen and Princess is outside, teasing them to get her.

It was always fun to see them interact, except when they were starting to get to rough with each other which happened sometimes, too.

Princess looking intensely...

...and seconds later is ready to go, which for a puppy means ready to play.

Profile shot of Princess. The two black Dobie girls looked remarkable similar.

In case you wonder, Princess is wearing a puppy harness, because we started to walk the puppies on a leash and a harness is gentler on their bodies than a collar, but also to be able to grab them more easily in case we had to, when they were getting to rough with each other or in trouble in the garden.

Elsa, happily and proudly playing with a ball.

Isn't she cute?

"Come get me, if you can!"

Even at this age Elsa had still these unusual blue/olive colored eyes.

You got to stop and smell the roses - well, at least start with the leaves.

Always on the hunt.

Elsa aka Yoda: "I can walk myself"!

Hope you enjoyed seeing these photos from our rescue Doberman puppies. If you want to take a look at the two earlier posts that I did about them and read more about their story, please click here and here) They were a heck of a work, but boy, do I miss Elsa and Princess, that got adopted out soon after these photos were taken. As I mentioned previously, we kept Lilly for ourselves and she is growing rapidly into a beautiful Dobie female. It is almost hard to believe now that she was once so little.

Warm regards,

Christina

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