I know! ....I KNOW!!!!!.....I missed a blog yesterday! Let me explain!

Can you spell.....S-L-E-E-P  D-E-P-R-I-V-A-T-I-O.........ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!

Oh my goodness! Anybody who ever said that having a puppy was just like having a new baby LIED!!!!!
Having a baby is so much easier! At least I could still sleep when all I had to do was to shove a boob in a mouth and they wore diapers to catch their business!  Not so with a 7 week old pup! (Ok...don't EVEN go there!!)

Up every hour to hour and a half....standing out in the rain...surviving whining and yelping and close to strangulation (the pup to himself, not me to him!) trying to get away from his tether by the bed.......and on & on  & on.
Madison took a few shifts last night, bless her heart, and finally at 4am, she decided to sleep with him on the kitchen floor (so NOT good for her back!) on a doggy bed with a pillow & blanket from the couch, while Meeko slept soundly and comfortably beside her till 7:30 this morning!

We tried him in his crate for a bit to start the night off last night! Hmmmmmm.......have you ever heard a stuck pig squeal? Well I haven't...... but I can imagine....(it didn't earn a place in our English language expression collection for no reason!) and it probably would not be as bad as what Meeko last out last night! WOW! I'm so suprised our neighbors didn't call our local SPCA (the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals). It tore my heart out! I couldn't even use the "cry-it-out" method for my kids.....so there's no way I can do it to my pup!

So...we last minute built a make-shift crate with bedroom furniture which worked for awhile, until he decided to try scaling it,( & succeeded!) and crawling under the bed and partially practically strangling himself!

Night is now approaching.....and do not even ask me what I am going to do .......?? No plan!!!!
Maybe sleep on the floor with him next to my bed? I'll still have to get up every hour since I think his wining signals his need to eliminate. Instead......all he does is flumps in the nice cool wet grass and goes to sleep.........
SERIOUSLY??????? So tonite....when you are tucked all warm and cozy in your beds...and you happen to wake upon turning over and you glance at your bedside clock at 3am....think of me.........   :)

I know this too....will....pass!!!!!!!  This too will pass!!(I'll just keep repeating that to myself!)

(By the way......he is an angel puppy during the day!!)

And lastly.....I know the title of this blog is 365+ days of puppy love and my promise to myself was a daily blog......., but I am now realizing that promise may be very tough to fulfill during these puppy raising days......though it will still be 365+ days........the days may just not always be CONSECUTIVE!