Update on Michelle (Gertie’s Daughter)

We received a note from Dani, the person who adopted Gertie’s daughter Michelle. Michelle was born in our house in mid February. Isn’t she cute? Dani was kind enough to allow me to post her photos for everyone to see and to include her note:

Hi Tom and Harriet!
We just got back from her vet check-up today. She is 19 lbs now! Tripled in size from the 6 weeks since we got her. She is learning pretty quickly, we have her almost completely house trained other than the few accidents now and then. She is too smart for her own good though. On days Jeff and I will be away from home more than 8 hours, we were gating her into a hard floor area so she could play and romp around and then would have a dog walker come, but she climbed the gate. We got her a gate that was a foot taller than the previous, and with no surprise she climbed that too. We locked her in the laundry room and she scratched a ditch into the door On top of all of that, she learned how to get out of her crate, so we had to get her a larger crate we call puppy Alcatraz that she has been doing much better in. Our neighbors have two dogs that she loves playing with, she loves it so much she found a small gap in the ground and the gate that she squeezed under one day when I let her out, and we found her on the other side playing with the other dogs. She's very friendly and playful, and a cuddler when she tires out. I do wonder how her brothers and sisters are doing though, I am curious as to how big they are. Attached are some pictures we took right before we went to Mexico! Hope everything is going well with you and your doggies!

It’s really nice to hear about our foster pups and see what they look like when they grow up. Dani has promised to send more pictures in the future and I will post them here when they come in.

Here’s what Michelle looked like about a minute after she was born.