Today the blogger Kate behind A Peony for Your Thoughts is here to share all about her fur love Henry! Thanks for joining us Kate!
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Hello friends!
I’m Kate from A Peony for Your Thoughts. I was excited when Becky asked me to be a part of Furry
Fridays because if there’s anything I love to do its talk to anyone and
everyone who will listen about our giant Bloodhound puppy. I blog about my life as a newlywed, our new house, a little
bit of fashion and if I’m being honest a LOT about Henry.
Everyone always asks my husband and I why we got a bloodhound
– since we aren’t hunters and don’t plan on using him for search and
rescue. We don’t really have a
good answer besides I’m a sucker for hound dogs (we had a beagle growing up,
and my parents have a treeing walker coonhound) and I mean seriously, how can
you not love this wrinkly face?
Henry is totally our first “child”, we spoil him rotten and
we’re a little obsessed with him.
It’s been a bit of an adjustment welcoming a giant slobbery dog into our
new house (especially since the previous owners chose BEIGE carpet for the
entire house), but we love him so much.
We got him from a breeder as a 9 week old puppy at 16lbs; since then he’s
steadily gained about 5lbs a week.
He’s currently a whopping 87lbs at 7 months and growing. He’ll top out between 100-140lbs. We currently have him enrolled in
PetSmart training, which has been great. We figured he’d better have good manners or he’ll be walking
us at that size! It’s going
okay so far, hounds are definitely easily distracted but he’s getting there.
Oh, and I was totally charting his growth like a mommy
blogger for a while there (crazy or ironic? you decide). Lately it seems like his growth has
slowed a little, so maybe he won’t reach the full max weight for his
breed. We also constantly make up crazy
songs about Hen, “who’s that hound?
It’s HEN! (to the tune of
the New Girl theme song). And he has a million nicknames; hen,
hennanator, henny penny, the littlest hen. I also just realized the other day that we accidentally
named him after Jenna Bush Hager’s husband, Henry Hager. Oops? In my family we always gave our pets middle names, so Henry
has not escaped that tradition; he goes by Henry Halifax Hager.
We’re living in a world of baby gates right now, since Henry
can’t be left alone without some sort of destruction occurring. And also we have a cat that is not so
sure about him. She’s pretty brave
from behind the gate, and will run up and bat him in the face. He thinks this is just the greatest and
hops around like a maniac while wagging his tail. I have high hopes that they’ll be great friends one day,
fingers crossed. We’ve had great
luck with crate training. Henry
loves his crate and goes in there on his own to sleep or if he gets spooked by
something (vacuum, etc). Hopefully
one day, once puppy hood has come and gone, we can just get him a bed in the
corner. For now the crate has
really worked great for us.
You can find more pics and stories about Henry over here on
my blog. Thanks Becky and Steph for having
me!
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Just love this! First, thank you for liking my Puppies-Puppies page. I would love to have my love for dogs included on your site. I will write a post and send it along with some photos of my lovely furry ones. You are so wonderful to do this!
Sinea from Puppies-Puppies (Our blog is still under construction...will be ready real soon. Facebook page is growing every day!)
Posted by: Sinea Pies | 01/15/2013 at 11:05 PM
Thanks so much for offering me this wonderful opportunity. Of course I'd LOVE to share my story about our dogs and my new Puppies-Puppies blog. The blog is still under construction. Our Facebook page is growing by leaps and bounds. Would love lots more likes! :)
...Sinea from Puppies-Puppies ♥
Posted by: Sinea Pies | 01/15/2013 at 11:07 PM