Clay took Bailey to the vet this morning to be spayed. Consequently, she missed out on most of the action around here and will have to get caught up tomorrow.
Maze arrived about 8:00 a.m. She's Della's first born pup. She's been here before and she'll be staying with us until the first of the year. Maze is a sociable and easy houseguest, but she has a very finicky digestive system and can't have anything other than her own food. That's fine, I don't do treats around here as a rule anyway. As long as she doesn't consume any of the local wildlife, she should be fine.
Oakley is settling in here pretty well. She was much more content, and quiet, her second night and she and Maze hung out and played together today, both inside and out.
I took six of the dogs out to the pasture for a walkabout this afternoon. It was Della, Elvis, Paisley, Dodger, Oakley, and Maze. It was Oakley's first time out there and she enjoyed it.
About 6:00 p.m. a new Great Dane foster arrived. She's another young female, much smaller than Oakley, probably not more than six months old. She came from a shelter and she had been a stray so we know nothing about her. The shelter had called her Sweet Pea but I'm not in love with that name. She does seem very sweet, however, and she's not scared of people or dogs. Maze was the first to meet her and that went very well because Maze is very social and she doesn't feel the need to lay down the rules of the house.
Bailey got home from the vet not long after the arrival of the new Dane. Bailey had obviously had a rough day and wasn't feeling great when she walked into the house to find two new Danes, Maze and Sweet Pea. I hustled Bailey into a crate to sleep it off and got the other dogs upstairs away from her for tonight.
Sweet Pea can do the stairs, but she fussed about being crated so I let her back out to wander around the office for a while this evening. She came up to me on her own and the other dogs are leaving her alone to just explore and get acquainted. Taking in a new dog after dark is less than ideal, but this time of year it can't be helped. Decent pictures will have to await tomorrow's daylight.
We are up to 10 dogs in the house tonight and our pack weight has gotten a much needed boost with the addition of three Great Danes in the last couple of days. It looks like it's going to be a Danish Christmas.
Maze, left, meeting Oakley.
They spent some time together in the dog yard this morning.
Della having words with Maze, while Elvis gets hit the face by Maze's tail.
Dodger
Maze having a roll in the grass out in the pasture.
Maze and Oakley
Maze, Paisley, and Oakley
Oakley and Della
Dodger and Maze
Oakley is very quick, agile, and light on her feet.
Maze meeting the new girl, (Sweet Pea for now)
She's got four white feet, two socks on her front feet,
and some white on her chest and the back of her neck.
I'll get some daylight pictures tomorrow.
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