29 August 2017

On his first night in our house Finlay slept all night without crying, he did wee on the puppy pad though. We decided to put Finlay in the kitchen in the puppy pen with his dog bed and a quilt along with a couple of toys and a night light. This seemed to work well.

We had fenced off part of our garden in order to keep Finlay contained in a part of the garden that was easy to manage. We know from experience that Tibbies like to explore and we didn’t want to lose Finlay in the depths of a flower bed at 11pm not knowing what he is up to. However, there is one flower bed in the area he is allowed, and it turns out he loves to rip leaves and flower heads off plants, which is fine except we don’t want him to poison himself. So extra fencing is required to keep him off these plants! The same is the case for the plants on the patio, so re-positioning and barriers are necessary!

Food, he loves it! He came down from Scotland with some cooked chicken, which he has along with some puppy wet food mixed with Royal Canin puppy kibble. It all disappears pretty swiftly. He doesn’t want to drink our water though, so we supplement it with watered down puppy milk and watered down straight goats milk (kinda the same thing).

He has his first brush. He was very good and loved the fuss, although keen to eat the brush!