Fast as lightning

Most small dogs are fast. Add that Belle is a puppy still that makes her fast as lightning. With being fast, she also likes to eat everything. She is like a Dyson on steroids. The time around the Marsh house we have to be most careful is mealtime. Yorkies have sensitive systems and certain foods set them off. Belle for instance can’t have any sort of shelled nuts. She is a puker.

Other times where her speed poses a problem is laundry time. Folding socks turns into stacking single socks until you catch her with the match. And yes she knows you want it and turns it into a game. Round and round the table, then just think when you got her she dives under the couch to hide.

It seems every time my wife and I get her games figured out surprise she adapts and evades us again. Lots of fun and I think I have lost some weight chasing her.

Who's bed is it anyway?

When we first brought Belle home with us, she really liked her kennel. When it was time for bed, she would go into her kennel and sleep for the whole night. Then came the “Great Haircut of 2009”. I felt so bad for her with no hair and I thought she would freeze at night so I thought it would be a good idea to have her sleep in our bed for the night. This would prove to be the end of my “good nights sleep”.
I thought we’d put her back into her kennel and she would sleep, but I think she knows that our bed is so much warmer and softer than hers, and she will just bark and bark, I’m sure for hours if we’d let her! So, now she has to sleep in our bed with us.

Things you don't think about......

If you’ve never had a dog before, there are probably a lot of things you don’t even think of when it comes to having a pet. All you need to do is be sure that they get food, water, and love, right? WRONG! This is something that my wife and I, mostly my wife, are learning everyday with the new addition to our home.
When we first brought Belle home, she felt it necessary to “tinkle” in almost every room of our house. At this point, Jacki, my wife, thought it was time to take her back. I reassured her that we would have the potty thing down in less than a week and that it was just because she was in a new home (it’s a good thing Belle is a quick learner!) We haven’t trained her on the doggie door yet, so we have to get up with her in the night when it’s time to “go”. Jacki has said that she didn’t know that she was signing up for sleepless nights and frequent trips outside in freezing weather when we got Belle.
We even had to “dog proof” our house, making sure that there was NOTHING on the floors because Belle absolutely loves to eat EVERYTHING! She loves attention and if you don’t give it to her…..she is not afraid to let you know.