Boot camp!

The other day my Miss Zoey just seemed awfully down.  She didn’t want cookies, she wouldn’t wag her tail, her head hung low – I’ve never seen her like that!  Postpartum?   Exhaustion? Sick?  I took her temp – normal.  I gave her extra yummy toppings on her supper, but no, she wouldn’t eat.  Then it occurred to me that the girls and I have not been taking our morning walks since the pups were born, and Zoey is an athletic likes-to-be-outdoors kinda girl.  So we leashed up and headed out for a walk that was about 1/4 the speed we normally go and a distance of about 1/10th our typical 2 mile route.  Hey, a girl can’t go too far or too fast with distended mammaries!

We did it again the next day, and the next, and I’m happy to say that everyone is happy again.  Physical activity is so important to Zoey that sometimes when I’m on the treadmill she volunteers to hop on with me.  She’s even done that since she had the pups so I had to slow the treadmill down to a snail’s pace to accommodate her current condition.

Well, that got me thinking.  Why should those pups get to be lazy while the rest of us are trying to get fit?  So today we started their exercise routine.  I open the door to the Puppy Palace and let them spill out over the gate.  Then I “run” into the dining room and do laps around the table calling for the pups to follow me.  They toddle along behind – some following, some cutting through the middle, some going the opposite way.

Zoey got in on the activity and after a few laps around the table Drill Sergeant Zoey leads them off to the stairs and tries to get them to climb!  …game over.  A little too much too soon.  But, we had a blast and I snapped some pics of the pups that I added to the website.