Drunken Sailor and Nail Clipping

Exciting moments today

First one opened her eyes today - the gal.

No one else has as of yet but they are up doing the drunken sailor walk.

I will try to get it on the video. Didn't the first time I saw them really do more than the crawl as I was so excited - silly me. Might have enough of a charge to get it taped.

Today was also nail cutting day. How often do we do it? At this stage we are doing it weekly to eliminate their nails getting caught.

This growth spurt slows down plus they start walking and wear them down. But you do have to have them cut at the groomers or vets or do it yourself. They will be well conditioned to this and we will show you how to do it when you pick up your pup. No worries.

The boys are having a ball and outnumber the gals by far but we will see who has the strongest personalities - who is the most laid back and as time goes on, it all unfolds.

You can get an inkling of it early on but when they start interacting, you see so much more.

It's important to socialize them to humans at this stage. Throughout the day we pick them up, snuggle and hold them and caress them in various ways to get them used to humans.

Everything is so new that it is important to slow condition them without over saturating them to everything as they get older.

We invest a lot of time in exposures and sounds to get them to feel comfortable. We ask that you continue to expose them to a variety of places, dogs, animals, environments, buses, cars, trucks, airplanes and anything else that will occur in their life and treat it as a matter of fact thing and not coddle them and they will get that there is no reason to fear simply what they don't know.

Remember, they read what goes down the leash and we learn this ever so well in the show ring but it transfers to all sorts of experiences. If you are in a bad mood - well your dog will react to that. It sounds like the strangest thing you ever did hear but the Havanese are VERY intuitive and I swear - at least emotionally they know you better than most anyone else. So, as you are training, get in a good place and they will too. If you can't, put the training to another time or allow your Havanese to jumpstart you to a happier time. It's hard not to allow this even on the most difficult days when they cock that head and say - well let's gone on with it.

Hope you enjoyed photos of the boys. As they progress, their looks will change and their personalities will unfold. Me..I am waiting for the rest to open their eyes and for them to do that drunken sailor thing again.

No matter how many times you do this - it's exciting every single time to crazy dawg people like us.