Photo-session in shedding time

Leia gets wet

Sleeping in the Park

This experience is AMAZING. Never did I know, through all my years of loving animals, just how soft and warm you can feel when looking at a sleeping puppy, and knowing that when she wakes the first thing she will look for is you.

Daniel and I went to the park today, in the sunny early afternoon. After about an hour of sniffing around, chewing yummy sticks and playing funny command learning games (mainly consisting of finding Daniel or me running off somewhere, setting chase, hearing "come Leia, COME!" and getting candy) Leia was exhausted. We brought water, of course, and after drinking a bit it was time to collapse in the sun.

We had a towel for her, but it was much nicer to sleep on Daniels jacket. Notice his reading material.

Having a relaxed moment in the spring sun.

After a while I sat down, and Leia decided that my lap was an ever comfier resting spot than Daniels jacket.

Ah, be still my heart! Leia slept like a baby (which she is) for almost an hour here.

We tried to wake her up (notice my hand on her tummy) because we needed to get back home and wanted her to wake up and preferably go to the bathroom again before we got back inside.

But the moment I stopped rubbing her belly, this happened:

I'm a novice at this, but I would say that this is not a puppy with trust issues :) It can be hard to see in the picture (click it for a bigger version) but Leia is fast asleep on my knees, again.

We carried her to the spot nearer our home which is her designated "quick potty" area and Daniel went home because he needed to "go potty" too :) Leia and I spent another 30 minutes or so there, but no sign of any need to go, so finally I gave up and brought her home.

This time around we walked the whole way home (well, its only about 100 yards) along the very well populated road. We live on one of Gothenburgs busiest streets (people, not so much traffic) and with a lot of patience, love and attention (and tiiiime!) Leia walked all the way home. That's another first! Go Leia!

When we were about to cross the street a tram came by, which scared her a LOT. She has never been on the ground when one passes before. I used a lot of calm energy and took the pack protector role by placing my body between her and the tram, paying her no attention at all but focusing on the tram, until it had passed. I'm hoping I'm sending the signals of "pack leader facing the danger and scaring it off" - but no way to know until the next tram comes by =)

10 weeks and 4 days

Heyas y'all! This is Leiii - Ah!

Ooooh, my days are filled with fun, fun FUN! I getz LOTS of love when I remember to be calm and happy. Itz HARD man! When I seez Moommy and Daddy I just want to love on them and kiss them and eat them up. Daddys big outer fur that he uses outside is espezzally yummy to bite, and mommys litteler outer fur (zwetter?) is SO nice cuz it has pockets and there are always treats for me there. I luv treats! SO I getz happy whenever they walk into my den (kizzen?) and tell them how much I luvz them - but they just IGNORE me!!! STRANGE! Still, they always luv on me after a while, when I iz calmed down. So I getz the luv anyway, hah!

Every day we goez Outside. Outside iz a BIG place, man! There iz lots and lots of people in the Outside, and also big metal thingamajigs like the one I came here in, and even bigger, really STRANGE metal thingies that makes lots of noise and sparkz! Yesterday we walked up to one that was quiet and walked INSIDE it!!! There was luts and luts of people inside. Then it woke up, with us inside it, and started moving and shaking and making noise. Daddy was holding me and I wuz a little afraid, but when I whined and Mommy and Daddy were both very relaxed, and too busy to hear me (STRANGE!!) I calmed down right away. They were not afraid and so I gezz there wuz nuthing to be afraid of. I iz no longer afraid of any of the metal thingies, big or small. They cant hurt me cuz my Mummy and Daddy are big and strong and will NOT let anything happen to me. I have da GREATEST pack-leaders in the whole wide world.

Yesterday evening wuz very funny. I got to go outside my den, the kizzen, and into the bigger den. There I met some really STRANGE animals! They is called "catz". I had met some of them before. There is many of them (one, two, three, many - right?) and some are nice and some goes hzzzzzzzzz at me. STRANGE! All I want to do is play but they getz all HZZZ-y with me! I think they iz stooopid. But mommy said I still had to link to their webbpages from my blog - so you gots some links to the stoopid catz. Pah!

Mommy said it will calm down soon, once they getz used to me. Daddy said he had put them into "Puppy school" to learn about KEWL dogz like me. He even took pictures, look!'


I likes my new toy that they got for me too... Its a little squeaky thing that is much softer on my gums than the chewing thingies. Those are nice too, espezzaly when my gums itch, but dit little one is nicest! Only boring thing is that they never let me keep it when they is not in my den. Says its too small. Isn't dat the point? STRANGE!

My favvo place to play is on mommys legs. Iz very handy since dat means I have a soft spot to fall asleep when I getz tired from playing. Mommy sez she wishes her things were NOT soft but hard, but I don't agree at ALL!


I almost forgot! When we got out of dat big metal thingy yesterday we were in this HUGE green place. I met a friend of mommys and 2 other really BOORING dogz there. They waz both much faster dan me... Note to self: Work to become faster dan stupid dogz. Mommy was ALL ezzited that I ran to her when she called me, but REALLY. There was always treats! Of CUZ I come then? I think Mommy thinks really STRANGE things are good... I won't post picture of that as Mummy says there are already videoooooos - right below here.

Anyhooo! Gotza go! Daddys taking me outisde again. Oh HAPPY!
/Leiii - Ah!

10 weeks and 1 day

So, like... YEAH!

Yesterday was really really kewl! I got to go to something called a "perk" or "purk" or sumthin like that. I was wiz my two peplez (they is my home crew now. Like Mymmy and Daddy. YEAH! Thats what I'll call them. GOOD names! I'm such a smart puppy!) and a really old human that smelled almost like my "she" human. The old human brought a dog wiz her. It was a girl dog, and she said the humans call her "Ezter". STRANGE name! I likez Leiiii - Ah! much MUCH better!

It wazent a very big dog, just a bit bigger than me, so I thought we would play when we got to the pork (pirk? pyrk? No, duzzent sound right...). But noooooo. The old human kept picking up perfectly chewable sticks from the ground and threw them. And Ezter ran after them, but instead of chewing them (Like *I* wudda done!) she picked them up in her mouth and ran back to the humans with them. So the humans throws them again. STRANGE game! And booooooooriiiiiiing!

So, after I gotz tired of eating grass I started chasing Ezter. Every time she ran for the sticks I would run after her and try to ram her. But no matter how hard I runz, stoooopid Ezter runs faster. Mommy says its becuz Ezter is a "Jack Ruzel" and really high ener...gi? ge? gy? Anyway, I never ran after a dog that runs faster than me before. All my brothers and sistaz were REALLY easy to ram. That Ezter didn't even want to play with me. I Think she is a STRANGE dog!! But it was really really FUN to chase after her!

I didn't eat so much of my food yesterday and mommy was a little bit worried , until she figured out that she gives me food ALL the time. She keeps saying STRANGE words to me, and looks at me like I'm supposed to DO something?? So I try doing stuffses, and sometimes I think I must do stomething righjt because she, or daddy if he's the one saying the STRANGE words, says "Gooood Leiii - Ah!) and then they give me candy! That's great!! But the bestest thing with that is that when I do something that gets me candy they is also so HAPPY with me. They call me a good girl and rubs me and gives me looove. Now, if I can only figure out what is the right things to do... I usually get very confused... Its a very very STRANGE game! But I like the rubbing!



Aaaaaanyway! I wuz very tired when we got back from the purk... or, eh, the GREEN place with luts of grass. So I fell asleep and slept almost all the evening. Only woke up to get food and being taken out to do my bizniz. So of course, it wuz really hard to sleep all night. Shouldn't be that hard to figure out that if I sleep all evening I will be awake awake at night? But mummy and daddy looked at me funny when I was juzt telling them it was time for them to let me out of my crate and go do bizniz. So, ok, I told them kindda loudly. But they wuz SNORING! I had to be loud to hear myself over the noise!!

Mommy got out of her big sleeping basket (which is flat with no sides, STRANGE!) and took me outside so the I was happy. Just thought it was STRANGE that she was stumbling and mumbling about "ungodly hours of the night". Anyway, I fell back asleep once I did my bizniz and slept really well, so I REALLY don't see what the problem was!

All in all, a really nice day!
Todeeloo!
/Leeeiii - Ah!

The CyberDog - Again

[From the Persian Pregnancy Blog, Written by Emma, the Human]

Ok, so I know I meant this blog to be only about our persian girls - but I just HAVE to share another picture of Leia.

Today we went to see her again - for the last time before bringing her home. She is now old enough to build a relationsship with (9 weeks) and she immediately fell in love with Daniel. I can live with that, since I immediately fell in love with him too =)

The CyberDog

[From the Persian Pregnancy Blog, Written by Emma, the Human]

In just one more week, Leia will come home. After more than a decade of breeding cats it's time to welcome to the first Cyberdog.

Meet Leia (or Xsanda Paint the Sky With Stars)

Leia at 8 weeks of age, on the table being trained to stand.

The two pictures above show Leia at 9 weeks. Goofing around in her breeders garden =)