Adventures in Dog Sitting

Ellie scratching and clawing, trying to get the ball...
Like my protective sheets I have covering my furniture.
Ellie is sad. She wants her ball stuck under chair.

Ellie scratching chair to retrieve ball.

Ellie protecting her ball as she rests

Cute Ellie in the sunlight

First let me wish Monica a very Happy Birthday today!! I hope you and Dave are having a fabulous time at the Bed and Breakfast in Cali!! I wanted to give you an update on Ellie Belly so you can rest assured she is happy and doing well. She is a great dog!! Holy cow. She is so cute and really well behaved. She really makes me want to get a dog so bad! Ellie rarely barks which is great for Chris because he can't stand dogs that bark. She does this cute whelp that we think is adorable. She has yet to have an accident in the house. She is eating a lot. I put bacon in her dinner bowl the other night and every last bit of dog food was gone. She had chicken the first night mixed in. We did a trial the first night too with having Ellie sleep in the bed with us. She was perfect. We have since allowed her to shack up with us at night. She is so cute. She mostly stays down at the end of the bed and doesn't wake us up. When we walk around, she likes to nibble at our toes. It's actually quite cute. She reminds us of a guppy fish at feeding time. Why does she do this?? Ball time is her favorite. So we throw the ball in the house (we had rain all weekend) and every 5 minutes, the ball gets stuck under a piece of living room furniture. So throwing ball is more like retrieving ball under furniture. Here are some fun photos of her whelping for us to get the ball. She is very protective of this ball. As soon as I say, "Where is your ball", she knows immediately where it is. It is cute!