Blog About Your Dog Monday!

I think this a great idea and I had been planning on posting about my dogs sometime anyway so I will start with the dog we got first and he just turned three a little while ago!  His name is Chanceux (French for "lucky") and he was abandoned as a puppy with all his brother and sister pups in a box up in the mountains here in Colorado, in the middle of winter, near the side of a road!  (0.0;)  Thankfully the box was spotted quickly and, as far as I know, all the dogs survived.  Most were adopted from a shelter near where they were found in Montrose, Colorado, but Chanceux and his sister hadn't been adopted after a few weeks, so they were sent to Boulder, Colorado to try and find their forever home from The Humane Society of Boulder Valley which they swiftly did!  The girl had already been adopted by the time we got there and we just barely turned in the card in time to adopt Chanceux, it was close to Christmas and many people were eager to get a puppy for their family, so that was how we came up with the name Chanceux.  He was lucky to survive, we were lucky to find him (via the internet first and thanks to their great photos and updated information) and he was lucky we adopted him too, because not everyone is as generous with their pets as we are!

Chanceux - 3 Months Old

Chanceux - 3 Years Old

 

Our second dog was already eight months old when we adopted her from the Longmont Humane Society and she had been relinquished by her first owners for being vicious and dangerous and she was extremely malnourished and didn't seem to understand many things like singing, TVs, stairs and the only command she knew was, "sit," but after completing the Bite Program at Longmont Humane Society they determined she was safe to adopt out, but they had to warn us about her.  I suspect the people who first adopted her never had a dog before and had no idea how to raise or treat one, because she has learned a lot in the time we've had her (she is so proud of herself after she completes a round of fetch now) and she is the sweetest, most cuddly dog I've ever had the privilege of knowing and we love her to bits!  We named her Tsukiko which is Japanese for, "moon child." because she is as dark as a night sky and her eyes are huge saucers, as big as the moon!  :)

Tsukiko - 8 Months Old

Tsukiko - 2 Years Old

 

Oh and that is a picture of her playing, "The Blanket Game," which I taught to Chanceux when he was a puppy to protect my delicate fingers from his razor-sharp puppy teeth and he in turn taught it to Tsukiko and they always want to play it now so they play by themselves with a blanket that used to be the couch blanket, but is now a dog-toy haha.  We just tuck it in tightly enough and they don't need our help to play anymore, so that's nice for us too and it's really cute to watch as well.  Snorting and rolling puppies chewing each other gently through a blanket is more entertaining than most shows on TV!

As for the languages we chose for the names, I am part-French and my husband is half-Japanese and we love the sounds from both of those languages.  :)

Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed "meeting" my Plott Hound puppies for the first time and I will post more adorable pictures of them next Monday!  Ttyl.  (^_^)