Phoenix, the mythological creature

It has been quite a few months since I last wrote. Victor and Phoenix are finally in the US and we feel like a family again. Since they both arrive, KanLoo seems to be happier, he really missed Phoenix!
Unfortunately now we live in an apartment and the boys do not have all the space they had before, but we make sure to take them for walks, and to Fort Funston during the weekend!
Yesterday, as I was in the shower I saw a silouhette through the sliding door and when I opened it, it was PhoePhoe! he was just checking on me, on what I was doing. Immediately, I cupped my hands and filled them with water, but he just went away. That broke my heart because Nazca would always come to me when I was showering and drink some water from my cupped hands.
And this little thing Phoenix did, confirms to me that he in fact is the bird of legend, he is Nazca reborn! Phoenix does so many things that Nazca did, that KanLoo doesn't do, that you can not say it is just something all dogs do!
Phoenix, my little fire bird, you are just the perfect puppy!

Phoenix and the mosquitoes

Last week sunday, Phoenix had a bad reaction to mosquito bites. They bit him in the nose and eye, and his face was really swollen and getting more swollen by the second. Victor called the vet and he open just for them. He gave Phoenix a couple of shots to help with the allergic reaction. He has been having bad reaction to the mosquito bites in Puerto Vallarta, every time he gets bitten, his bites get really swollen and he obviously gets really itchy.
I have to say, the mosquitos in Puerto Vallarta are vicious!

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!

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!

Lifting his leg already!!!!

This little puppy already lifted his leg to pee over the weekend! He really is a smart dog. The only thing we don't know is if he is learning faster because he sees KanLoo or is just his innate curiosity to do things!!!

He can so far only do it in a corner outside the bag door that is really close also to a wall.

Everyday there is something new about Phoenix!

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!