Riley went to his new home this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 We miss him already.\u00c2\u00a0 But we love his new family and are just thrilled with the fit, they suit each other!\u00c2\u00a0 Hope he’s settling in well.<\/p>\n
I expected seeing the puppies off to their new lives would be emotional, but it’s been fascinating.\u00c2\u00a0 Worry worry worry…will they scratch his ears that way he likes?\u00c2\u00a0 Will they understand that bark means she wants to go out and that other bark means she’s just sounding off?\u00c2\u00a0 Will they love them and cuddle them enough?\u00c2\u00a0 Did I make the right decision?\u00c2\u00a0 I have to say that we’ve been very lucky so far, we’ve been so fortunate to have such wonderful people who wanted puppies from us.\u00c2\u00a0 But this business is not easy, nor is it cheap, nor is it without a lot of attendant angst and heartache, even when things go swimmingly.<\/p>\n
Riley is the last to go until Girl-We-Don’t-Keep leaves at the end of June.\u00c2\u00a0 I am very close to a decision (maybe 75% there), just waiting for next weekend when we visit Ulla and she tells me now is not a good age for me to ask her opinion of them and I whine and say I know THAT but what do you think of them and she says it’s hard to say because they’re at an age when they look funny and I say I know THAT but please please PLEASE tell me what to do…\u00c2\u00a0 I love Ulla, she is such a wonderful friend and so very sensible<\/em> and Swedish.\u00c2\u00a0 I need her to help me make clean sharp sense of things, so I don’t second-guess myself for the next decade.\u00c2\u00a0 And THEN I worry about GWDK…what if she’s not the right dog for the wonderful home waiting so patiently for her?\u00c2\u00a0 What if they’re disappointed with her?\u00c2\u00a0 What if…??!\u00c2\u00a0 I tell ya, you can drive yourself crazy…short trip though it may be for some of us…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Riley went to his new home this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 We miss him already.\u00c2\u00a0 But we love his new family and are just thrilled with the fit, they suit each other!\u00c2\u00a0 Hope he’s settling in well. I expected seeing the puppies off to their new lives would be emotional, but it’s been fascinating.\u00c2\u00a0 Worry worry worry…will they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,62,67,51,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding","category-dogs","category-nina","category-puppies-dogs","category-vallhunds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}