Now we are 6 (months)

In a few short days our girl will be 6 months old- my how time has flown!
She is still the same puppy, still growing fast, and playing hard. She is slowly getting used to life in the Killeen household. Unfortunately she has not quite learned that jumping on your head whilst you are sitting on the floor is not a great idea, although she gets a great deal of inappropriate encouragement from her father who thinks that it is great fun. Like every child or pet we love her to bits but most of all when she is asleep! Her ears ans paws tell us that she has a great deal more growing to do, and she it averaging a nice gentle 1-1.5km walk every day- which is good news as mummy could really do with the exercise!

Here are some more photos for you all and I promise the video will come also once I get a tutorial from my resident IT consulant. Laney and Ron.

Week 12- 5months old

Tess is now 5 months old (or 20 weeks) and is getting more like a dog and less like a puppy every day (except when she is being naughty. She has started losing her baby teeth, and for a short while has been a bit gummy, but she is now growing all of her adult conine teeth all at once, which may explain why she has been a bit sooky lately. She has also discovered that stairs are not such a bad thing and regularly pops up to shack west to visit Dad and help him with radz or computers or tech talk.
She enjoys her long daily walks and loves going visiting.
We have seen some recent photos of her litter mates especially the boys Dutch and Bailey who are HUGE and all of them are starting to look so grown up now.
We have some assorted videos of the past few weeks to put up but that takes more skill than Mum can muster so we will get Dad to put those up very soon.

Watering the plants

Tess drinks the water from the pot plants, then bowls over her father.

More week 8 stuff- 2nd visit to Granny and Granda's

Tess really enjoys her visits to her grandparents, and this week she went to Granny and Granda Allison's for Mum's birthday and also to Nanna and Yak Killeen's for a visit and a play with Macros- I guess you could say Macros is her uncle of sorts!.
The grass is a favorite play area at both houses as she does not have any at home.

Week 8 photos

Here are some more shots of Tess at puppy school

Tess graduated from Puppy Pre-School today! Have a look at the video and see how she sits, stays, drops and shakes hands. Also she is wearing her cowboy bandana for the special occasion.

Week 6!

Tess has started puppy-school this week and has some new friends. We met Oslo the Beagle, Jack the cavalier King Charles cross, Stitch the Cockerspaniel cross, Coco-Chanel the chocolate labradoodle, Goldie the spoodle, and Ruby the Staffy-Terrier. At first she refused to socialise and was frightened of puppies less than half her size, but now she is starting to come out of her shell.

She is also doing very well with her obedience training and can "sit", "drop" and "come" on command. (Especially when there is food involved.)

In a couple of weeks Tess will be getting her final immunisation and then she'll be able to go out for walks. She is looking forward to walking Amy home from school.