Boz is 12 weeks old as of yesterday and he's been with us for exactly one month today. He has changed and grown so much in that time! Here is Bozley on July 26th (in the middle of the night after we got home from picking him up and gave him a bath), August 10th, and August 20th. He weighed only 5.2 pounds when I took him to the vet on July 27th. Now he weighs 15 pounds! He's gotten a lot taller...his paws and legs seem to be growing the fastest! And I love those adorable floppy ears. <3
Bozley is a good boy...and very smart! By August 2nd, he had already learned sit and shake. That same week, he also learned down...and sometimes roll over. Stay is taking a little bit of time, though. :P He has done really well with crate training and potty training. He generally sleeps through the entire night until between 8:30-9:30am. He only had a couple accidents in the house in the beginning when I wasn't paying attention to how long it had been since he'd gone outside. But he hasn't had any accidents since then. And now he has even started alerting us at the back door when he needs to go out. I think it helped that he could watch Linken whine at the back door to go outside. It took a long time to get the chihuahuas to alert us at the backdoor!
Boz really likes wrestling around with the chihuahuas. Neko loves it too, but Linken gets irritated with him a lot still. And Bozley wants to play with the cats so bad...but they rarely play. Sometimes they'll run around the backyard with him...but usually they'll quickly get to the point where they swat at him when they've had enough of his orneriness. :P
Bozley's health has been good as well. He is gaining weight and doing well on his new food. After I found Purina Just Right and created Bozley's Blend, I found Purina Pro Plan Sensitive Skin and Stomach puppy formula with Lamb and Oatmeal. It's basically just like Bozley's Blend with a few small changes. It's also little bit cheaper, of course, than the custom-made blend. We just finished transitioning to the new food and he still loves it. His skin is doing much better now...and his fur is looking and feeling better, too. I also found some training treats without chicken that we have been using as well.
The vet called us shortly after our last visit and let us know that he'd talked to a veterinary cardiologist about Bozley's heart murmur. The cardiologist said that the kind of musical sound it makes is typical of a physiological murmur and not due to a pathological source. That means it's more the structure of his heart than a disease causing it. The cardiologist also said that it is likely to resolve on its own as he gets bigger and we just need to make sure to check it out again in 3-4 months to see if there is any change.
We're excited to start taking him on walks soon. We want to wait until he is fully vaccinated before we have him walking around in strange places. He goes for another round of shots again by September 7th, so we're getting closer! And hopefully the weather will be cooled down a bit by then. :P
We are so glad to have Boz here with us. He is a really great dog. :)