So tired

We all had a great night sleep. The girls woke me up at around 5:20AM and they all went potty outside, ate breakfast, then went back to bed. The pup had a stuffy nose.

A few hours later, Scott took the girls outside for another potty break but the puppy didn't want to leave her crate. Finally, when she got up she was limping and her nose sounded even stuffier.

We took the pup to the shelter clinic -- we get free vet visits for the 7 days after adoption. She slept in the Jeep the whole way there.

She weighed in at 39 pounds. The doc took her temp and she had a slight fever (103.2). The doc did not find any swelling or breaks in her leg. Probably just a soft tissue injury from too much roughhousing with Diesel. The doc gave her an injection to kill the pain and ward off inflammation. She prescribed antibiotics for 10 days for the fever and runny nose, and Rimadyl for 7 days for the leg. We have Rimadyl left over from Diesel's ACL surgery last year.

The pup slept all the way home. When we got home, the pup went right to her bed and the big girls just hung out. They still seemed pretty tired from all of yesterday's activity and excitement. At dinnertime, everyone ate and played gently in the living room. The pup must have felt better because she kept trying to snuggle up to Presley and Diesel, but they weren't really keen on that.

Overall, Presley has been more tolerant of the pup, which is very surprising. She has let the pup lay next to her a couple times and they usually end up taking naps pretty close to each other and sometimes touching.

Diesel doesn't want to have anything to do with the pup while we're in the house, but in the backyard she wants to play chase. Unfortunately, we have to keep the pup calm until her leg feels better.

We've been trying out several names but it's difficult because I'm sure we haven't seen her real personality yet. We don't want "meat stick" to stick so we want to make a decision soon. We've probably listed at least 50 names but some of the more realistic names are Bandit, Brisket, Bristol, Charlotte, Cabernet, Diamond, Driver, Kobe, Pusher, Rowdy, Trucker, Whiskey.

I like the idea of the name starting with a letter that rhymes with "e", like P for Presley and D for Diesel. A nice to have, not a need to have.

The girls are all sleeping in the living room right now. It's cool that they are on the same feeding and sleeping schedule. We'll see what happens when the pup starts feeling better. The first 3 days that we had Diesel, she was so reserved and quiet. Then she turned into hell on wheels.