Miki Report

Miki (our new field spaniel puppy) is now 13 weeks old. He’s visibly larger, and I’d estimate he now wieghs 20 pounds. His shape is also visibly changing — he’s transforming from the chubby little puppy we picked up three weeks ago into an adult male dog. I meant to get some pictures yesterday, but events overtook us. I’ll try again today…

Yesterday evening we had a “first": Miki got into a boisterous play session with our two adult field spaniels. With Lea (our adult female) the play was especially intense; Mo’i (our adult male) mostly tagged along behind. We were watching a movie when this play session began, but we had to pause the movie because of the doggy din — it was loud! All three of the dogs were having a lot of fun, but little Miki was having the time of his life. He zoomed around the room, dove under furniture, yapped his fool head off, and “attacked” the adult dogs head-on, fearlessly. Between his fierce puppy barks and his endless antics, he had the human observers rolling around the floor, laughing their fool heads off. Debbie loved the moments when Miki would catch sight of her (sitting on the floor), and would bound into her lap for a moment of caressing — before he rocketed off after Lea or Mo’i one more time. I particularly enjoyed seeing Lea (who is our oldest dog) leaping and playing like a fantastically agile puppy…