Same sofa, bigger puppy

Picture to the right taken 04/04/09, left taken 04/18/09. Same sofa, just bigger puppy! In the first picture Phoenix has room to lay almost on all his length, in the second he has to make himself a ball to fit in there!

Growing fast

When we arrived in San Francisco we did not find a suitable bag for Phoenix, so we left it to when we were in The Netherlands, as we had some more time there to do some shopping. BIG MISTAKE! We couldn't find a suitable bag that was regulation size and shaped, as most bags had an open space for the dog to poke his head out.

So we found one in Bilthoven, but it was smaller than regulation. Uffe measured Phoenix for us: 30 cms tall and 30 cms long; a perfect square! :)

We barely fit in the bag, and actually taking the flight from San Francisco to Guadalajara, the girl at the counter was complaining that Phoenix could not stand up and move around. Bottom line I told her he had been flying for the last 3 days in that bag with no problem and she begrudginly let us go!

They grow so fast, today he reached the top of the cabinet...and when I measured him he was 48 cms long and 55 tall!

Is funny how puppies grow, they have spurts of growth in different parts of their body. Today as Phoenix was walking, I saw that his back legs were taller than the front, a funny looking puppy! I saw the same thing in Nazca, he also was "un-even" as he was growing! One thing though that probably doesn't grow so much: his feet. They are big (not as big as Nazca's, his were huge!) and I am pretty sure they will remain that size till he grows!

Phoenix is now a quite cute growing puppy!

Here you are, all puppies in a mission! Find the chicken!

After our first night

After our first night we woke up and went down for smorsgabord breakfast. We put Phoenix in his bag and he slept thru our breakfast! It was cold out and I think he wanted to snuggle and keep warm in his bag!

Tenna and Uffe picked us up to go bak to their house, and he started playing as soon as we got home!! In this picture the puppies and Liva are playing with the woolen bunny I bought in Los Gatos for Phoenix! All the brother, sisters and Liva were going crazy after it.

It was fun to see you all running around in and out of the garden and abusing Liva!

All siblings are so full of energy! I don’t remember seeing all puppies sleeping at the same time for more than 30 mins! And the time Phoenix spent with his brothers and sisters taught him how to defend his toys! Phoenix is really good at not letting KanLoo get a toy from him. In this litter Phoenix had to defend anything he had fiercely! The girls were as fierce or more than the boys!

He is so different in some respects to Nazca. Of course both, Phoenix and Nazca gave/give KanLoo a hard time, always chewing and scratching him, but Nazca used to spend some quiet time with himself, Phoenix is always chasing KanLoo where ever he goes!

I think he sees in KanLoo the big brother that is teaching him how the world goes around. Phoenix is funny, he sits there and watches the world go by, trying always to reflect on what he sees and understand it!

Phoenix is such a thinker!

Ou first night together

We slept together in Frederikssund, in a small hotel. It was so cold outside and the hotel was so smoky! Here is Phoenix in bed, sleeping away and being a good puppy. We were so panicked that we were going top sqoosh him! The besd were single beds, so we put them together to make a bigger one. Well, we slept al night long and we did not do anything to him!

As he was also used to go out to the garden to pee and poo, he had a hard time going outin the street, and going in the puppy pads in the hotel bathroom. Poor puppy!

That night we did not notice, but now we know he is so restless before he goes to sleep. He fights with himself to fall asleep, he moves around to find the most comfortable position, he whinnes and makes noises, till he finally falls asleep. I truly believe he sometimes is so sleepy he falls asleep anywhere, even if he is not comfortable! Is funny to hear him complain...

And when he is sleeping and you touch him, he also makes this noises, like saying: "please do not bother me, am sleeping", as he is still sleeping! If you caress his body as he is falling sleep, he stops the noises, he is probably soothe with the nice warm feeling in his little body!

He also gets so hot, most times as you hold him or pet him, he gets up and goes to a different spot because he is too warm!

Also most time, as he wrestles himself to sleep, he will start softly bitting his legs...and he does not take any rubber toy to chew instead of his leg, I guess that also soothes him...

Crazy puppy!

Phoenix Danske - life with a Pharaoh Puppy

Phoenix was born January 22, 2009, a day after Nazca, my fifteen month old Pharaoh Hound died bitten by a black widow spider in Mexico. Puppies grow so fast and I decided to write a little each time possible about the beauty of raising a puppy, and the rewards of raising a Pharaoh Hound.

Phoenix and Nazca in reality belong to my boyfriend, and my dog is KanLoo, the first Kelb tal-Fenek in the family, he was born May 21, 2007.

Phoenix so far has been a good puppy. I remember first time Nazca came to the house, in december 2007, KanLoo was still a pup, 7 months old, and it was the first time I had 2 puppies at the same time. KanLoo till that point was a sweet quiet dog, Nazca came like a hurricane, barking, wrestling, bitting, playing all day, and remember well having the feeling of making a mistake by taking another puppy, thinking he was mean to my dog and that he was going to try to dominate him. He was always barking at KanLoo, so he finally learn to bark!

So now that Phoenix does all these things again to my pup, I don't freak out thinking that he is being mean, he is just being a puppy!