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We took Konst to meet Mr. Melbell’s mom and grandpa yesterday. He behaved much better than I expected. He only piddled on the carpet one little time and it wasn’t his full bladder’s worth, just a little spot.

He jumped around under Grandpa’s feet a little but other than that he was pretty good.

He and Daisy are having a power struggle over who’s the boss and it was much more muted there than it is at home…probably because she wants to claim her house and he’s trying to take over…but at Grandpa’s house she doesn’t have any territorial claim to it. At home they will just go at it for hours if we let them, but yesterday Mr. Melbell’s mom had them pretty well distracted with treats and affection!

Well, yesterday afternoon we got in the permanant crate for Konst. Mr. Melbell put it together and this thing is so huge. It’s big enough for a person to sleep in…comfortably probably.

So far he isn’t doing very well in his crate. He starts out just whining but then it escalates into a full blown temper tantrum in no time flat. And it’s happening every single time we put him in the crate…it’s quite loud and obnoxious…but I guess we will have to wait and see what happens.

We don’t have any big plans for today. We are both off work for the 4th so we will probably go take the dog to meet Mr. Melbell’s mom and grandpa. Other than that we will probably just hang out here and play with the puppy and try to get him settled in some more.

Well, we just got back from the vet. Konst did very well and he’s quite healthy, if not a little on the rambunctious side. He’s very friendly to people and doesn’t seem to be scared of anything. They gave him a round of puppy shots and clipped his nails for us.

The vet also took the tape off his ears and cleaned them out. They were DISGUSTING inside. Just caked in black goop. So he went ahead and checked them for infection as well. But that was fine, not infected.

While we were waiting we went and bought him a backpack to carry on walks, and a pronged “pincher” collar because he doesn’t seem to care if you tug on his collar…he still does whatever he wants.

Anyway, he weighed in at a whopping 30 pounds…which is already almost double what little Daisy weighs!! I think we are going to have our hands full.

Well I am happy to announce that we have a new puppy!! We brought him home yesterday and he is just so stinkin’ cute.

Mr. Melbell and I took off work today so we could get him settled in and take him to the vet.

His name is Konstantin and he is 13 weeks old as of yesterday. He is from the Ukraine and we had to drive to O’hare International Airport in Chicago to pick him up. We don’t think he’s ever had any sort of discipline because he thinks it great fun to bite our arms, hands, and hair. Well, it’s not great fun, so we are trying to break him of that.

Mr. Melbell sat in the back with him the whole way home from Chicago and made pretty good progress getting him to calm down. But when we got him was very very riled up and anxious, probably from travelling.

He and Daisy don’t get along too well but I’m sure they will work it out…we hope anyway.