More Joy Day!

[gwyn]

I don't have a lot of joy today, much as I'm trying to feel the spirit. But I do have something to share that I think a lot of people will enjoy--I'm fostering a litter of four-week-old chihuahua puppies and their mum for Motley Zoo Animal Rescue, the group I sometimes foster dogs with. This is the first time as an adult I've been around puppies full time and let me tell you, it is…not as much fun as it seems. :-D There's the wonderful stuff: snuggling little babies as big as you palm and that have that delish puppy smell, and having them mouthing on your fingers and hands is a trip. But there is also a lot of pee and tons of poop now that they're eating puppy mush, and they are indiscriminate about where they go.

So is mum, to a certain degree, as she isn't really housetrained and has a lot of issues, which is typical for rescue dogs. She's been through a lot--emergency c-section, shelter, and may have come from a hoarder so of course has a skin condition and other serious problems. She's terrified of me because I had to give her a medicated bath first thing. And I need to bathe the pups too, but haven't yet.

Still--there is cuteness! And it might give you Joy!

I can never figure out how to put anything up on DW (this is still my biggest grrrr about the site), so I'm linking here:

Minute long video of no-holds-barred puppy fight at 3:30 a.m. : http://teatotally.tumblr.com/post/156135774205/for-more-joy-day-i-give-you-a-minute-of-wild

Short video of snuggles plus Mom: http://teatotally.tumblr.com/post/156056355785/im-fostering-a-litter-of-four-week-old-puppies

Sleepytimes pic: http://teatotally.tumblr.com/post/156103318125/post-prandial-sleepytimes-puppies-pupsters

My instagram and my tumblr are both under "teatotally" and I'm sure I will be posting more puppy and mom related joy in the near future. I am going to try to avoid the pics of me having poo and barf and pee related meltdowns or things like my pounding headaches and severe lack of sleep. Oh, wait…I guess I did. :-D

If you're in the Seattle area and would like to meet them, they will need socializing. I can't let them come in contact with other dogs until they get their vaccines in a couple weeks, but they are snugglable and need the socialization!

ETA: I keep forgetting to add: the best part of this is that it's the Supergirl litter! Mum is Cat Grant, and the babies are "Males = Tan male (Winn Schott) and black male (James Olsen) Females = Tan female (Kara Danvers), black and white female (Lucy Lane), black female with little white (Lena Luthor)"

Comments

[roga]

Oh my goddddddddddddd they're so cute! I wish I were in the Seattle area I would 100% be there *___*

[gwyn]

They really are, the little poop machines. :-D

[goss]

it's the Supergirl litter

Awww! Too cute. ^__^

[gwyn]

I know. I thought, of all the names for the animals our group gives them, it was funny I got that one (I don't watch the show, but I know a lot about it from friends who do).

[arduinna]

Oh my god, they are adorable. Exhausting, I'm sure! But so damn cute. <3

[gwyn]

It's much worse than I ever imagined.

[kore]

SUPERGIRL PUPPIES YOU WIN THE FLIST.

[gwyn]

:-D

[dorinda]

PUPPYFIIIIIIGHT! *\o/*

You're doing good work, fostering the little poo machines. :D

[gwyn]

I really hope there's a Good Place, because wow, this has made me question my sanity if there's no reward for going through this.

[musesfool]

PUPPIES! SO CUTE! AND SUPER!

[gwyn]

LOL! One of them--I think it's Kara Danvers--is quite the escape artist, which would definitely be approrpiate. She's way more developed than the others too--she's not the top weight, but she's close.

[talitha78]

Ahhhh, so cute! Thank you for sharing.

[gwyn]

I wish you of all people could be here to meet them!

[talitha78]

I know, Chihuahua puppies, that's right in my wheelhouse! But to tell you the truth, I had the worst time potty training my first Chihuahua; it was a real trial to me. At one point, it got so bad that my mom told me she was going to pray on it! haha. I do not envy your poopy patrol, but you are doing Good Work.

[ranalore]

PUPPIES! Infinitely preferable to most people, even with the pooping and the peeing (though the empiricist in me wonders if all of their pooping equals the amount our new-since-just-before-Christmas rescue boxer does partly as a result of a digestive system in need of recalibration, while the rest of me is certain that is not a thing it wants to know). I'd totally help socialize them if I was in the Seattle area.

[gwyn]

In the span of a night, I picked up three pads with GIANT poops, two immediately after I'd taken her outside so she could poop, because I knew she had to. I'm just at the end of my poop-covered rope. Today's the day I have to move the wee ones into a pen, and they swear that they'll figure out that one half is for potty, and the other half is for plays and sleeps. I hope so, but right now it feels very hopeless.

[st_aurafina]

O M G puppies, I can't even, too cute. Supergirl litter!! I can't even.

They're even better from behind the screen where I don't have to clean up the poop. Best puppies! Thank you for fostering them and doing all the work, thank you for giving them the best chance at good homes. This definitely gave me joy.

[gwyn]

I wrote a little Stucky fic about dogs for the holidays, and in it Steve talks about the rescue group he got a dog from and he mentions that they name the animals after musicians and characters and actors, and that's totally stolen from this group I work with--the person who began it was really into metal, so she started naming the dogs and cats after musicians in her favorite bands and the rescue is called Motley Zoo. They eventually branched out into movies and TV and literature--sometimes they're fun names like these, and sometimes they're very weird.

[sperrywink]

Very cute. And go you for fostering puppies! I don't know how you do it.

[gwyn]

Right now I feel like I'm not! I'm in so much pain from the bending and stooping--it's going to be very hard for me to recover, I think. I'm glad they're safe and all but wow.

[umadoshi]

So cute! What an amazing thing for you to be doing. ^_^ I hope poor mama!dog calms around you soon, and that you're able to get the puppies bathed.

[gwyn]

She's getting better about the timidity, but it's also hit and miss, I think. Occasionally she acts like she might be okay here, and then I might have to warn her away from something and she gets set back--I think she was not very well treated in her original home. But she's such a good little mama, she's really good with those guys, and they are a handful.