As of today, Ginny is now 1.5 years old! She's been about the same size for at least six months (~32 lbs.) so I think it's safe to say she's done growing and officially no longer a "puppy."
She still acts like a puppy, though! Her energy level is maybe a little less than it used to be - but she still gets very excited anytime she meets someone (human or dog), and it can take awhile for her to calm down. She's just so friendly and confident that everyone (humans and dogs) want to be friends with her, too!
We crate her for about 6 hours every day while we're both at work, since she's prone to chewing things out of boredom even when we are home, and we don't exactly trust her to have the run of the house if she's home alone. Thankfully, she seems to like her crate. Even when she was sick a couple months ago and had some accidents in her crate, she didn't seem to mind - she went right back in the crate without problems the next day.
We also crate her (in a different crate, upstairs) at night, though every night she jumps on our bed and tries to blend in with the pillows so we don't see her and let her spend the night with us in bed instead. (It doesn't work.)
She still has the occasional gastrointestinal problem, which requires a daily dosage of Pepcid and special GI dog food. Even with these, she throws up sometimes in the morning - though thankfully it seems to be getting less and less frequent, and maybe someday we'll be able to wean her off the GI food. (As long as I didn't jinx it by saying that...) She's also on Claritin year round because if she isn't her eyes start watering a lot and she looks like she's crying. I don't know what she's allergic to - but it's clearly something that's around in any season.
She still acts like a puppy, though! Her energy level is maybe a little less than it used to be - but she still gets very excited anytime she meets someone (human or dog), and it can take awhile for her to calm down. She's just so friendly and confident that everyone (humans and dogs) want to be friends with her, too!
We also crate her (in a different crate, upstairs) at night, though every night she jumps on our bed and tries to blend in with the pillows so we don't see her and let her spend the night with us in bed instead. (It doesn't work.)
She still has the occasional gastrointestinal problem, which requires a daily dosage of Pepcid and special GI dog food. Even with these, she throws up sometimes in the morning - though thankfully it seems to be getting less and less frequent, and maybe someday we'll be able to wean her off the GI food. (As long as I didn't jinx it by saying that...) She's also on Claritin year round because if she isn't her eyes start watering a lot and she looks like she's crying. I don't know what she's allergic to - but it's clearly something that's around in any season.
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