Aspen the Yorkie

I’m doing good now after my dental appointment! Here’s some more pictures for you. These were taken somewhere between 9 and 10 weeks, after I moved into my new home. I was REALLY good and only woke up once the first night, that is because my new people lived right next door and I got to know them really well before I moved in. For a while, I could still go next door and play with my brother, and sometimes he came over and played with me, but now my Daddy and brother live in Florida. But I’m a happy dog because everyone here loves me so much!

In the picture on the left, my ears are down, I’m about 10 weeks old. In the picture next to it, a taken at about 12 weeks, you’ll see me with my ears up! My ears had a lot of hair on them, so my owner cut off all the extra hair, and the next day they were standing up…she went next door and did the same thing to my brother, and it worked for him, too.

This really should have been the first post to this blog. The picture to the left is a picture of my curly haired Dad, Winston, and my dainty Mom, Munchkin. The picture to the right is a picture of me and one of my brothers or sisters when we were first born, I can’t even remember which one. All that I know is that my owners tell me I was born first, then there were 3 more puppies.

There was trouble with a couple of my puppy brothers and sisters. A friend who raised Labrador Retrievers was there helping, they held the struggling little newborns, no bigger than hot dogs, and warmed them with their hands, and rubbed them on the sides to stimulate them. One died almost right away, the other lived a day or so longer. They kept putting him to Mom to nurse, and then fed him by hand because he wouldn’t take to the nipple, and unfortunately he only lived a little over a day.

My brother and I made up for it, though, by being loving and cute, and keeping everyone busy taking care of us.

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Aspen

Here’s my brother and I, I am the one that has more brown in my face, the one on the left in both pictures. We are posing on the couch at 6 weeks, and to the right we’re all ready to go to the vet at 7 weeks. We had to go to the vet a lot when we were puppies and we always got LOTS of attention wherever we went.

In the picture to the left, I am with my brother, Brutus, when we were 10 days old. We were always together. I am the one on the top in both of the pictures.

In the second picture, we were about 3 weeks old. My owners lived right next door, so they came over almost every day to see us, and took pictures every week so we would have them to enjoy and share with you!

On March 31, 1999 I was born in the house next door. My owner was there to watch my birth, I was the first of a litter of 4 Yorkshire Terrier Puppies.

One puppy only survived 4 hours and another was lost a few days later after much effort to save him, but my brother and I are fine, and we think we’re pretty cute!

To the left are pictures of my really pretty Mom, her name was Munchkin. She did a great job of nursing us, and keeping us clean, fat and healthy. When we were little, we stayed in a nice cozy box with a heating pad kept just warm enough so we’d be okay when our Mom had to leave us alone.

I’ll be back tomorrow to tell you more about us!