Tico wants to meet his namesake

Tico the dog - fits in the suitcase, for now.

This is Tico the car and Tico dog´s namesake. This is the most common taxi car in Peru. Clearly, my husband jives on irony.

Sasha in his favorite hillside spot with the desert flowers

He's going to be really sad when he's too big to fit under the bushes like he does now to get there.

... or he'll just tear them up so he fits I guess. He just started digging plants up.

I've been bad

about taking pictures of Tico. I'm totally obsessed with him but i've forgotten to take pics. i only remember to take pics when we're socializing him. why don't i realize he won't be this small for long??? greg took him to the vet on friday and she said he was a "size 6". in laymans terms that means he's going to be a 65-70 lb dog. ho damn!

"Socializing Puppy in an Urban Environment"

noodle is tico's bff at chandler bike path

this was wonderful socialization! this gentleman walks the path regularly. and crutches could be scary for a puppy. but Teeks is a big strong boy and it didn't faze him.

We started Puppy Head Start with Tico and Oscar at 7 weeks. THANK GOD! tico is already better trained than his mother. one of the things we're supposed to do is socializing him in our urban environment so he gets used to the sounds of cars/trucks/bikes/skateboards/people/dogs. and he wins prizes if we take pictures of the socialization.
he is such a little social butterfly. he loooooooooves to meet people and dogs. he whimpers when a passerby doesn't pet him. HOW COULD YOU NOT PET MY DOG - HE'S FLIPPING ADORABLE. sadly, no dogs have the same amount of energy as tico.

This is what Pichu does

when she doesn't have her usual excercise. ate 4 cds. actually swallowed shards of sharp hard plastic. dont understand how her gums weren't bleeding. i did find cd case in her poop days later. we're getting her a treadmill stat.

Pichu tried to kill a baby...

... a baby squirrel!
this morning i let the dogs out and pichu ran straight for the mandarin tree where an innocent baby squirrel was foraging and almost killed him. i was screaming like a crazy lady and im sure the neighbors heard. i wonder if she didnt intend to kill him because she had him in her mouth but didnt bite down. i was so upset. it was just a little baby. i dont think ive ever even seen a baby squirrel. he was finally able to get up the tree and she CLIMBED UP THE TREE. as far as she could anyway. i got her inside the house and then went back out. he was still in the same spot and his mom was a few branches above him. he was chirping away. but it sounded kind of muffled. dont know if that's the normal sound of a baby squirrel learning to chirp or the sound of a baby squirrel with a punctured lung. i watched him for a long time. on the exterior he was fine (no blood or anything) but who knows. when i was leaving for work i went back out there and mom and baby were gone. hope they're ok :/

fave pics from week 8 - part 3

such good sitters
6am

we're going to grow up together
kodi