Cygni and Me

Recently I switched Cygni to a new brand of dog food.  She had originally been eating a mix of Royal Canin and Eukanuba Puppy Food.  But, the stores that stock those two brands were a little out of the way for me so I decided to switch her food.  I always want what is best for my puppy and this time it meant buying the pet food that you can buy from the Veterinarian.  Our Vet stocks Science Diet, so thats what Cygni will be eating.

Switching a puppy’s food is a serious process. You can’t just start feeding the puppy a new food or you could seriously upset the dog’s stomach and digestion.  The best thing to do is start mixing the food together.

Over the course of several days use different ratios of the old food to the new food.

1. Start with about 75% old to 25% new.

2. Move to 50%-50% after a day or two.

3. You can go to 25% old to 75% new.

4. And finally you can then switch to just the new food.

5. If at any time you notice that your puppy’s stool is looser than it should be immediately stop switching the puppy’s food and remember to give more time adjusting the food.

I was going through some pictures of Cygni and figured I should post some of the really cute ones on here. So enjoy!

Cygni and Leon are at it again! This time though I got them on film. It seems like Cygni has so much energy that Leon just doesn’t know what to do against her. But after a while he tends to go running for a couch to jump on. Lucky for him she is still too small to follow.

Lately Cygni has picked up some odd habits around her bedtime. When its time to go to sleep I go and get Cygni from where ever she had fallen asleep and move her into my bedroom. But when I go to get into bed myself Cygni will all of a sudden start whining and crying. She won’t let up if I try to ignore her bad behavior either. Instead she just picks up the pace with her whines and turns them entirely into barking and howling. I for one did not know that pomeranians could produce such outrageous noises.

Lucky though after a few nights of this I think that I have found a solution. It seems like Cygni does fine and won’t whine if I just let her fall asleep for like 5-15minutes in my bed while I read before I set her in her crate. She absolutely loves being in my bed and will sleep perfectly in it for as long as I need her to sleep. So when I want her to sleep in during mornings I can do the same thing, and just stick her in the bed. But I do not want her to think that the bed is a place she can go without my permission so I am sure to always require her to sit quietly before I pick her up and set her on the bed and she can only go on the bed when I am there.

Puppies always have little quirks about them. And because puppies are so cute it is easy to forget that while its adorable that they try to attack your pant legs now, it won’t be so cute when they are fully grown and still doing that. A lot of owners of toy dogs seem to have this problem because they treat their dogs more like little children than animals. Even though a teacup chihuahua or Maltese is a companion dog they are still dogs.