Phoenix is growing so fast!

This big dog is Phoenix! He is 7 months now, and growing like the wind!
I have not been writing too regularly, as many changes were happening in our lives!
In May I took the severance package Nike offer and I left them! That was the plan any way and all I was waiting for was my Bonus! So though now I do not have a job, it was really great!
So after coordinating the move for a month, finally they packed me up end of June and by end of July my stuff arrived in Los Gatos, CA, where we live now. Unfortunately, Victor and Phoenix had to stay in Mexico to finish some design stuff! So is KanLoo and Pat for a few months exploring the Bay Area.
My niece Nicole and nephew JOsh came to visit us to Puerto Vallarta for a week, while there I was continuing with my marathon training, as I do have an entry to run the San Francisco Woman's Marathon in October this year. Well, 2 days after we were there I screwed my knee bad! Intense pain that made me stop my running. Back in Guadalajara I went to the emergency orthopedic clinic and the doctor diagnose an impingement in my fat pad (Hoffa's disease), so I got anti-imflamatories and rest for 10 days, after which I tried running and the pain was right back! So went to the one of the drs I was recommended by my running friends, and he said I had a patella that was too high and was damaging my femur. And of course he needed to do arthroscopic surgery to leave me as new!
So now you have me back in Guadalajara, Mx, with my knee that was operated 17 days ago! I use crutches and depend on everyone, even for a glass of water!
In the meantime KanLoo is in a dog boarding resort: http://www.greenacresk9resort.com/Our%20Program.html
I have been in touch with them and KL is having a good time, playing with other dogs, running around being chased by the slower dogs...being his normal puppy playful self!
And Phoenix is in with me and Victor and he has been going almost everyday to Pet-expert, the veterinary clinic and day care service we have used for all 3 of our dogs while in Mexico. He stays there around 4 hours and then comes home very tired. It is best this way as I can not go to the park with them!
So this is where we are now, I will give you more details in the next few days!

Honey colored eyes

My aim for this blog was to document the changes that happen thru a pharaoh puppy, how they become the wonderful companions and performance driven dogs they are. And here I am, Phoenix eyes are already honey colored and I did not notice when this happened!!! He is already 4 months and 1 week, and he keeps growing and changing, but still behaves like the cute puppy he is.

We started going to the park again, it is summer and the days are longer, so since last friday we go to the Metropolitan park to play with 2nd season of our play group. Why 2nd season? We started that play-group last year with Nazca and KanLoo, by meeting the 2 weimaraners from Patricia and Javier, then Caco, Oscar's golden retriever joined also, he was then 5 months. And as the summer kept rolling, more puppies started joining in and the group grew to be 18 dogs! So now, as we come back to daylight savings, a new group is there, new puppies and a handful of last summer buddies: Chona and Huitla, the xolos, and Rommel, which last summer wasn't here but his parents were.

http://parquemetropolitano.jalisco.gob.mx/index.html

This is the link to the park where we go, if you go to "EL PARQUE" and then "FOTOS" you will fins a picture of me and KanLoo taken probably in 2007 when Nazca and Victor where not in Mexico yet.

More adventures to come soon...

Playing at the airport

Here we just arrived in Schiphol from Denmark and are looking for a hotel, Victor is playing with Phoenix.

Puppy hair

This picture was taken April 25th, Phoenix is 3 months already!

When we got him, he still had his puppy hair, yellower and soft, not really hair but more like fuzzies. Well, as he got closer to his 3rd month his hair started growing, losing his fuzzies. Today all his hair has grown and he has no puppy hair anymore!

His hari is redder than what his baby hair was, and it seems he will get redder and his hair will be longer than KanLoo but smaller than Nazca.

Ad you can see here, he is pretty handsome!

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!

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!