Week 2 - Shayna

Us and Shayna

Shayna is growing bigger in her 2nd week. She's been improving vastly in her appetite and we have been feeding her beside her dry food from Natural Balance(All life stages), we have added milk and also some wet food from the Addiction brand to add some flavor. She's so eager to eat now that when it comes to her meal time, she will come running to us, asking her to follow her and then she will sit beside the container storing her dry food. Playing with Shayna

Walking around the house

She's getting more confident and now roams at will around the house when we let her out of her cage. Shayna has learned to be more toilet trained , knowing how to walk back to her cage to wee and poo on the newspaper placed there. However, we have been trying to teach her not to play with her wee and poo in the mornings before we wake up to clean and feed her. It could be a sign of anger that we wake up late but we have been talking to her and on occasion, spank her gently to tell her to behave.

Shayna after a bath

Bathing her is one big wet messy affair for the three of us as one of us has to hold her down in the baby tub we bought while the other does the shampooing. We are using Johnson's Baby no tears shampoo which has been in use with Gayle's family dog - Tisha for many years and is a good whitening and conditioning shampoo. Tisha is like a pure white schnauzer now. Anyway back to Shayna, she is really frightened and struggles like mad during bath time. So we have to spend alot of effort to calm her down. At the end of it, all 3 of us are drenched!

Us with Tisha(above). Don't you agree that Tisha looks like a white schnauzer ? She is supposed to be a salt and pepper breed but seems like her Johnson baby shampoo is working wonders!

Shayna bringing Mr Spongebob to her favourite spot to play - in our orange fun room

We bought a new toy for her , we christened it Mr Spongebob which has an internal plastic insert that makes a plasticky, rustling sound that dogs like. Also it has a squeaker at the corner so that a squeaking sound is made. This drives Shayna all excited and she just loves to play with Mr Spongebob. We bought Mr Spongebob to distract Shayna from biting and playing with a Ty beanie dog that I have .

Shayna with our Ty Beanie dog - currently her best friend besides Mr Spongebob.

Shayna looking at Gayle doing the laundry and talking to her

Shayna has acquired a number of habits , such as trying to stand on her hind legs to see what we are doing, following us around the house and sitting there watching us and lying on her back as a sign that she wants to manja and be scratched. She also has discovered a few favourite spots around the house too.

Shayna in one her faourite spots, snucking her head in between the sofa to snooze. Another of her snoozing spot, by our sofa in the orange room on her security blanket