Don't look directly into her eyes...

... you'll fall right under her cute spell.

Meiby has been getting more comfortable with us every day. She's chewing, eating, socializing and exercising normally. She's just not sleeping normally. Our adorable princess keeps us up at night crying and wakes us up at 5am. Monday night my brother stayed over on our couch so we left her out of her crate with his supervision. She was great all night! She tried to wake him up at 5:30 but he calmed her down and went back to sleep. I was shocked when my alarm went off at 8am and she hadn't woke me up yet. So last night we thought we'd try keeping her in our room all night instead of the crate. She just got way too excited and kept trying to get up on our bed, which is not allowed, and it's too high so we were afraid she'd hurt herself. So we tried putting up a baby gate to block her into the area where her crate is. This worked for an hour or so and then she figured out how to get out. I ended up sleeping on the couch so she could stay out in the living room. Obviously, this isn't going to work permanently but it was our best idea at 2:30 in the morning. She didn't wake me up until 6:30 though... resting her little chin on the cushion.

Really, what can you say to that? She's so cute, we really have to restrain ourselves sometimes.

Meiby's first weekend

It's now Sunday night and we've had Meiby for about 48 hours. Yesterday she was very quiet, didn't eat much, was generally pretty unresponsive... She was very nervous and didn't trust us yet. Today was an immense improvement. She still seems a bit nervous but is displaying much more energy, eating normally, following me around everywhere. She's such a good puppy. She hasn't chewed anything, hasn't gotten into anything she shouldn't, doesn't bark much. And she just constantly sweet and cute. We just love her to bits! I think I'm going to have to go to bed soon here though (well before I usually do) because someone likes to wake me up at 5am. We're going to have to work on that ;)

It's a Meiby!

We drove up to see her on Friday after I got off work.

We met her family:

We met Happy/Meiby:

We brought her home:

We called her Meiby:

She's just the sweetest!

Mom and Dad

These are Happy's parents Arbor (fawn female) and Duncan (black male)

We are very enthusiastic about meeting Happy next weekend. She's being spayed this Friday so she'll be healed and done with that when/if we get her. We like the idea of getting a black pug because, being the vampires we are, we wear a lot of black (and Nick will be wearing suits a lot soon) and both of our cars are black. We hear pugs shed a lot so it's for the best that we have a black dog. We'd be happy with either color squishy faced dog though. We also decided that we liked the idea of getting a 6 month old puppy instead of an 8 week old puppy because we don't want to have to leave a baby pup home alone for too long. I'll be able to come home for lunch so she will only be home for 3.5 hours at a time. But that's still a bit too long for a tiny one. So when we found "Happy" at 7 months old she seemed perfect. Plus, she's already crate trained and mostly housebroken! ... any suggestions for a new name?