Jinx

Today was day 3 with Jinx, it's been a lot of work as it is with any new dog brought into the family. This was a bit more different than most new dogs for us as we never brought home a 27 kilo puppy before. Aliaan has accepted him and they are getting along well. The only problem we've had is that Jinx plays hard, harder than we like as he jumps on Aliaans back and just flattens her as she is used to being the 'jumpy' and not the 'jumped'. And she loves to run from him and to make him chase her, which Jinx doesn't mind doing, but after he catches up with her he grabs a big mouthful (and he does have a big mouth) of Aliaans back and she either brakes free or he hangs on so tight that she yelps. So we're trying to figure out how to 'calm down' play time a bit. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Yesterday we took them both to the vet, we've got a really great vet here (we've been lucky in that respect in our travels). We first asked him if he recognised Jinx and he didn't but he got on the phone and called 5 or 6 other vets to ask them if they knew of a missing husky. We thought that was nice and we didn't expect him to do that. He said Jinx looked between 1 and 2 years old and in good health and gave them both some stuff for ticks and insects and the likes. After the vet we took them both for a walk and he is real good on a lead, no yanking my arm out of the socket or anything like that. Of course we're dreading seeing a cat. And as payback for the trip to the vet Jinx puked up his lunch in the back of the land cruiser on the way home. Not a good sign and we hope that he gets used to driving as we do quite a bit.

Tomorrow I'm on my own, Doortje had days off today and yesterday so we've been tag teaming the dogs (ok, she's done 90% of the tagging) but I'll have them all to myself starting early in the morning. Wish me luck. If you don't see any new postings by 1530, they've probably locked me out of the house and are in the cookie jar.

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