Nike Pupdate

Nike is doing well! Her new mom (her former foster) renamed her Piper.

Remember that Nike, er Piper, was about 4 lbs. when we got her? Well, now she's 19 lbs., and as her mom says, "still pick-up-able, but oof!"

I've included her current photo--all happy and healthy--and also one of the photos of her when we first got her as a very sick 5-week-old parvo puppy.

Thanks to your donations, we were able to get Nike the care that she needed--and now look at her!

Here's what her mom has to say:

Piper's working on losing the last of her baby teeth. She's currently got 7 canines, down from 8 a few days ago. The adult teeth are delightfully dull in comparison to the ones they're replacing!

She's been going to doggy daycare for a few hours at a time a few times a week and it's really helping her come out of her shell with other dogs. She's played with a Boston Terrier named Frankie there a couple of times. She even made friends with a big, friendly Akita up the street last week; they were licking noses.

Her favorite dog is still Whimsy, the English Mastiff in her puppy class. She was beside herself with excitement when she saw Whimsy walk in the door last Saturday. Watching her jump all over Whimsy (Whimsy pretty much lays down and lets her go to town) was hilarious.

At one point Whimsy just reached out her paw and pinned Piper with the weight of it. Too cute!

Her training is going really well. There were only two of us at class last week, so the trainer worked with us one on one with calling them to us. Piper was so good. She'd run right past people trying to distract her and sit for me.

I've been working on "down" with her (for lay down) for the past two days and she's totally got it. I told her "down" when I took her out earlier today and she leaped into position. I'm super impressed with her!

We may need to work on more difficult stuff. We're also working on walking without pulling and not jumping on people (that may be the more difficult stuff). For some reason the first time I asked her to "heel" she did as if she'd learned it.

Pup-date!

Do you remember Nike the parvo pup? Well, here's a BEFORE picture (5 weeks old and sick with parvo) ...

Check out her AFTER photo! Nike is healthy, happy and quite the imp! And I just love this new photo that her mom sent us. Nike (now known as Piper) is definitely full of personality. What an imp! :-)

Nike was one of the lucky ones. She survived parvo and was recently adopted by her foster. She's doing well and is now enrolled in a PetSmart puppy class.

Thank you all for donating for her care while she recovered. It surely made it possible to save her life.

Please donate to Critters in Need Pet Rescue so we can rescue more needy puppies like Nike.

Here's an update from her mom:

Just thought I'd send you an update on Piper (f/k/a) Nike. We joined a puppy class at Petsmart last Saturday. We're working on her interactions with other dogs (amongst other things like "Stay" and "Leave It"). Everyone was really impressed by the positive change in her this week.

She spent quite a while jumping on one of the other puppies this morning (an English Mastiff named Whimsy who weighs almost as much as me) - her other favorite in the class is a corgie puppy named Penny.