Silly Milly

Meet Milly!  We made our parents Grandparents again---to a little Bugg.

Right when we were moving I was getting pretty pet hungry (yes, that is possible) for a little inside animal.  With our rental we couldn't have any more pets.  And now with our house Izzy stays outside.  (She's too big, sheds WAY too much and is NOT nice when people come over)  And she really does prefer outside so much better.  She has calmed down a lot since we got here and she's been out in the back running around.  Well Craig gave in and said I could get one as long as I did research...even a cat if I wanted.  Well the cat got ruled out pretty quick because their fur really affects me and I hate how they pee everywhere!  And besides they don't show the affection that we wanted.  When we got Izzy we really wanted a family dog that was friendly and could take places and we actually did a lot of research on labs, but unfortunately Izzy is 1-a mutt and 2-mostly Chesapeak bay which in turns makes her way, way protective to take anywhere.  If she's in her kennel or on a leash she gets a mind that she needs to protect us from things/people.  It's quite embarrasing.  Well Craig found a website/Ap that asks different questions on what we were looking for: small, low grooming, friendly/family, trainable and the results kept coming up with some terriers and pugs.  Chase has a pug and she is so cute so I decided that's what I wanted.  They are hard to come by.  We looked on Craig's List & Ebay and I found one.  The lady never called back.  I also like shih tzu and found one that needed to be rehomed but the whole grooming of shih tzu turned me off.  Also I've heard they are hard to potty training.  Well I fell back to the pugs.  As I was looking online I found the Bugg (pug & boston terrier mix) They are so cute!  They have the perfect mix of what I was looking for and the perfect build & smartness that Craig was looking for.  We found the one we wanted.  Craig contacted a lady and I contacted 2 ppl and both the ones I called they were all gone.  The one lady Craig called had 4 from the litter and we wanted to go that night and get the pick we wanted before other people came.  She was located in Salem which is about 1 1/2 hour from our house but with Portland traffic (5:00 wasn't a good idea) it took us a while.  Oh man all the pups were so so cute.  She also had boston terrier but we wanted to stick with the bugg.  The mom is 1/2 pug 1/2 boston with being 20lb and the dad is full boston weighing about 12-15 lbs so the size was perfect for what we wanted.  After sending texts we knew the girl one we wanted and there was one boy.  Well we hung out there for about 30 minutes and wanted to see how they interact and we changed our mind on the girl because the one we thought we wanted was too spunky which wouldn't be good with Hadi being so small.  The little girl we chose was calm and kind of a princess and the boy was so cute and calm too.  The boy kinda had a cough sound so it kinda scared us with breathing problems.  So we drove away with a little girly in Jaycee's lap.  I asked Jaycee what to name her and her first response was Charly.  I told her that was a boy name.  Upon talking all the way home we found some more names and after a day narrowed it to Charly, Milly, Maisy, Jerzi and Jaxy.  We decided Charly would win.  I thought Jaycee would be happy about that but she kept saying No, she's Milly.  And Craig and I kept slipping all day calling her Charming which is Sheri's dog name.  So Milly she became.

She's such a good pup.  She's very calm and loves to play, follow and lay around.  She LOVES Hadley!  Anytime Hadi is sleeping somewhere she wants to go cuddle up and lay with her.  It's so cute.  She likes Jaycee but Jaycee is used to Izzy so she's a little rough so Milly often runs away from her and finds Craig or I.  As we did yard work yesterday she followed us around all day.  It was so cute.  She does this cute head tilt when you talk to her-almost like she's trying to understand.  And she quickly is learning that "good girl" after going potty outside means she's getting a treat.  We still have accidents inside as expected but she's done pretty good.  Glad I have Z-lex.  We want her crate trained so night time she sleeps in there and for when we go to the store or out and about for a few hours.  Otherwise, she's small enough to come depending on where we go.  She's been so fun to have and such a different dog than Izzy was.  She likes to lick but hardly ever bites.  Mostly I'd say she just loves to sit and cuddle.  She's such a perfect addition to the Parker family.  We're hoping in a year that she'll go in heat and maybe the next year we'll let her have pups.  We're still thinking about it.  I'm pretty sure the pups would sell quick but I don't want her to be a money maker because that's not why we got her.  I just think it'd be fun if family wanted a puppy that she could be their mommy.

Oh and I had my first experience with fleas!  GROSS!!!!  When we got her the place had dogs, puppies, chickens, horses just everywhere and it was pretty dirty.  She mentioned another dog had fleas so I should've taken that as first thought.  When we were driving home I looked over and thought I saw a bug but then it went away and thought I was peranoid.  The next morning she was sitting on my lap and yup, sure enough there was a bug.  Right then and there I put her in the kennel and to Petco we went.  I had to give her a bath with Dawn dishsoap (kills the bugs) buy a flea collar for the vacuum, a comb to get them out and medicine to prevent it.  I felt so so bad as I was giving her the bath.  She was shivering and as I'm combing her little fur I'm just cussing that lady that we got her from.  How sad that these poor pups have bugs and not in a good environment.  I got 13 out!!!  Grosss!  Then all the clothes went in the wash and vacuum the whole house.  Luckily she didn't spend much time at all in the house but I still did all the cleaning just in case.  I'm glad we got our Milly and saved her from a nasty ass place.  She'll be treated like she deserves with us.