Nala will be 8 months next week, and she’s outgrown yet another crate. There she is sitting in crate #4, a big jumbo sized 41″ long travel crate from SuperPetz (and the largest travel crate they had in the store). Her last one #Crate #2) was a 36″ long travel crate that she was getting a little long for. Crate #3 is a 42″ wire crate that stays at home.
I think this will be the last crate we get. Any bigger and we’ll have to get a bigger vehicle. This one barely fits in the trunk, and pops the trunk door like a jack-in-the-box.
Paws everywhere!
Nala turns 6 months in a few days and is getting close to 55 pounds now. I’m sure her feet are growing faster than the rest of her, because she’s got the biggest feet I’ve seen on a dog her size. In typical lab fashion, she’s always following one of us around trying to see what we’re up to, running to us or after us. So some part of us is always getting stepped on. A few months ago when she was smaller, it wasn’t such a big deal, but now you definitely notice her big paws have intruded on your space.
She’s a swimmer!
The wife got to take Nala out to the off-leash area at James Island County Park today and had a good time. From what the wife tells me, Nala had a great time out there. The area is bordered by water, and after a few tentative splashes, Nala jumped right in to play with and chase some of the other dogs. She enjoyed being in the water so much it was tough to get her back out. Sounds like it was a good time.
Wish I could have gone too. Darned job…
Ice junkie
I have a dog that loves ice. Absolutely loves it. If I could make teeny tiny ice cubes I could use them as very effective training treats. Crack the freezer and she comes running from wherever she is, sits down so hard she makes a thump and waits patiently for a treasured ice cube.
If she gets one, she’s happy as a clam chomping and chasing it around the kitchen. She picks it up in her mouth, chews it a bit until her mouth gets too cold and then drops it. Licks it a bit, grabs it again and repeats. Funny to watch.
If she doesn’t get one, she has this sad disappointed look on her face and then trots away with you as you walk away.
From what I’ve read, this isn’t terribly abnormal for Labs, and there seem to be a lot of Lab owners out there who’s dogs love ice cubes.
5 months old last week, and weighed in yesterday at 48 pounds. I need to take more pictures of her.
Nala Sockthief
Nala’s picking up a few names as she grows up. Sometimes I’ll just call her Dog, the wife calls her Sweetpea occasionally. The latest one she’s picked up is Nala Sockthief. She’s developed a penchant for nabbing our socks. She’ll come walking up out of the blue with a sock dangling from her mouth, which we then have to pry away from her. A few times we’ve caught her nibbling on one of our socks after she’s snuck into the bedroom. This morning she came walking up to me with one of the wife’s socks dangling from her mouth which, according to my wife, she pulled out from underneath the sliding closet door.
This dog is just too much. The sock thing we’re going to work on stopping before she decides that they’re edible. The Sock Gods have already received enough sock sacrifices from us out of the dryer. The last thing we need is another sock black hole for them to disappear into.