Introducing the Dogsters: Welcome to Dr Karyn’s Jungle (with Poppy, Bailey, Kodah, Ned & Fred)

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If you hap to travel my contented connected Catster, you volition cognize that I stock my location with 5 cats. Each week I bring you absorbing and entertaining information, stories, and videos astir beingness with my 5 feline friends, and however they assistance maine to recognize feline behaviour and wellness successful a mode that nary textbook could ever convey.

I besides speech astir however they get on with my 5 dogs. Yep, that’s:

10 mouths to feed
40 paws moving astir the house
10 favored security policies
10 tons of flea & worming products each month
100 lbs of nutrient each month
a full batch of poop

…and a truly hard-working vacuum cleaner!

As you whitethorn person guessed, we don’t person immoderate quality children (our feline was allergic to kids, truthful we had to rehome them)… Just kidding!

I person been having specified a large clip sharing the weird and fantastic aspects of my beingness with cats, we decided it was astir clip for my dogs to stock the limelight. So with nary further ado, I would similar you each to meet:

Poppy – The Matriarch

Poppy is the OG. My husband, Reece, adopted her arsenic a puppy earlier helium and I got together. In fact, the precise archetypal clip we met was erstwhile helium brought Poppy successful for an assignment aft her beforehand paw had gone nether the instrumentality of a car. She has seen 8 dogs travel and spell (although 4 of those are inactive present of course), and ever maintains her presumption arsenic the calm and graceful person of the pack.

Poppy is simply a spayed, female, black Labrador Retriever, and she volition beryllium 11 years aged successful July 2024. As she was from an unplanned litter of workplace dogs, she didn’t travel with registration papers oregon ancestry documents, but her moving canine lineage has provided her with highly bully health, proving that pedigree isn’t everything!

Bailey and Poppy with our dear, departed Remus

Bailey – The Softie

Further impervious that pedigree isn’t everything, Bailey came from health-tested, hip-scored, Kennel Club registered ancestral lines. She is of the English/show canine yellow Labrador Retriever lineage, who are unluckily renowned for hep dysplasia, which is wherefore Bailey has 2 titanium hips.

We often comparison Bailey to Nana, the canine from Peter Pan. Although nary dog, nevertheless gentle, should ever beryllium near unsupervised with young children, Bailey is the benignant of canine you would beryllium tempted to prosecute arsenic your nanny. Only 4 weeks younger than Poppy, she is starting to amusement her property now, but inactive enjoys a tally connected the formation and wrestling with her younger siblings.

Kodah – The Maniac

Kodah is conscionable a large teddy bear

When we adopted Kodah, we were told helium was a German Shepherd. However, arsenic helium grew, we began to fishy that the Malinois we saw astatine the spot whitethorn person had a concealed tryst with Kodah’s mother, resulting successful a canine that looks precise overmuch similar a transverse of the 2 breeds; a German Malinois. And it’s not conscionable Kodah’s quality that resembles the celebrated subject and constabulary dogs. His precocious energy, hyperfixation, hypervigilance, and emotion of jumping are each precise diagnostic of the Malinois breed. Fortunately, helium is besides remarkably gentle erstwhile playing, peculiarly erstwhile playing tug-o-war with his tiny Chihuahua brothers.

Kodah is an fantabulous ‘alert’ dog, but I don’t deliberation he’d marque the champion defender dog. He’s ever the archetypal to loudly fto america cognize erstwhile the neighbor’s feline walks implicit the backmost fence, a car drives down the street, oregon a leafage blows past the window. However, erstwhile faced with immoderate frightening sounds helium tends to fell down me, and immoderate strangers entering our location are instantly pounced connected and covered successful Kodah kisses. He loves his food, but has learned not to interaction the Chihuahua’s nutrient vessel – they support him precise overmuch successful line. Turning 3 this year, we’re hoping he’ll yet look from his crazy teen phase!

Ned & Fred – The Troublemakers

Why is it ever the smallest dogs that are the biggest trouble? And the occupation is that adjacent erstwhile they’re being naughty, they’re truthful damned cute that you can’t enactment mad, oregon adjacent support a consecutive face! Poor Kodah astir apt feels precise hard done by erstwhile he’s not allowed to bash fractional the things that Ned & Fred get distant with.

Ned and Fred stock a heavy emotion of food.

Neither my hubby nor I had ever thought we would person tiny dogs; we antecedently had an Irish Wolfhound, but aft we rescued an older Chihuahua called Potato a fewer years ago, we fell successful emotion with these tiny dogs with elephantine personalities, and we were perfectly devastated when we mislaid Tate.

Ned, who is astir 18 months old, is really the relative of 15 month-old Fred, and from the infinitesimal they entered our home, they person not stopped. You mightiness person heard the quote:

Silence is golden. Unless you person puppies…then it’s very, precise suspicious.

This is perfectly the lawsuit with this pair. I ever accidental that they person 3 settings: Eating, Sleeping, and Up to Something. They emotion to tally and play and wrestle, and erstwhile they sleep, they slumber hard! Weighing astir 4 lbs, Ned is impervious that it’s each astir the size of the attitude, not the size of the dog, which helium proves by keeping Kodah successful line!

Ned likes to marque definite Kodah knows who's boss!

Until adjacent week….

I can’t hold to stock each the ups, downs, and hilarious in-betweens that travel from surviving successful our blessed chaos, truthful enactment tuned for adjacent week’s installment: Bailey’s Bionic Hips.

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