Leona’s sister Ellie meets new people

 

4-25-2012 Ellie meets her future owners

 

Sometimes I wish I had more sisters. I am the oldest girl in my litter of puppies, and I am the boss of my sisters. Whidbey is bigger than I am, but I can wrestle with her and beat her. Ellie is my other sister. She is about the same size as me, but is a different color than Whidbey and me. Ellie also seems to like to snuggle up with mom more than the rest of us puppies also. I am lucky to have two sisters. Also I can push them back when we are eating and get to the food. My brothers are bigger than we are though, so it is hard to get our share of the food sometimes.

The Man brings two bowls of food to us several times during the day. There is so much food in those bowls! The only problem is that all of us puppies are so hungry when he first brings the bowl out that we push to get to the bowl. I noticed we are growing and all of us do not fit in around the bowls like we used to. The Man started using bigger bowls, and that did help some. But it still is pretty crowded when it is time to eat. English Springer Spaniel puppies have a lot of growing to do, so we need to eat a lot.

Ellie and I are the smallest now. Little Lee has gotten bigger than us. It was nice when he was the smallest so I could push him around. He is a pretty strong puppy though, and since he has gotten bigger it is hard to boss him. Ellie is smaller though and it is easier to wrestle with her. I wish my brothers were as small as she is so I could beat them wrestling easier.

Today The Woman came and got Ellie. I heard The Man and The Woman talking about visitors coming to see Ellie. I am still not sure what I think of visitors. New things can be a bit scary at times for a little puppy like me. Sometimes even the big dogs here seem to get nervous when they do not know what is going on. I hope Ellie is safe going to meet the visitors today. The Man does seem to guard all of us, puppies and big dogs. However if he is not fast enough something scary still could happen.

I could hear when the visitors arrived. When The Man and The Woman started talking they seemed friendly. Maybe it was OK. There was two visitors that I could hear. The visitors were sounding so happy to see Ellie. I could hear them laughing and being so nice to her. Ellie is a good puppy. Sometimes when she gets jumping around it gets all of us excited. Ellie will bark for us to come play with her. That is when it is time to go wrestle her. She can run pretty fast though and when those boys chase her she gets away.

The Man came back to our pen. I was not paying much attention to him and had my back turned to our door when He opened it. I felt the door push on me a little, then The Man picked me up. While The Man is nice to me I still do not know what I think of getting picked up. I like having my feet on the ground. What if The Man dropped me? He never has dropped any of us puppies, but he might.

I was taken out where Ellie was with the visitors. She was playing and showing off. Ellie is a show off, not like me. Seeing my sister liking these visitors made it easy for me to like them too. I was thinking about showing off also, after all I am better at everything than Ellie, when The Woman picked me up. The Woman seemed to want to hold me close to her. I have seen Ellie snuggle like this with mom, and when I am sleepy it looks like fun. But right now there is too much exciting stuff going on. I need to show these people what an awesome English Springer Spaniel puppy is like.

Ellie snuggling with her mom

Ellie and I played with the visitors, until we got sleepy. The Man took us back to our pen so we could get our nap. Ellie and I had a fun time, but now it was time to rest. This time when the visitors left all of us still had the same name as before. I like that, it is less confusing to try to figure out who The Man and The Woman are talking to that way.