So …we kind of did a thing.
Blog world – meet Lola! Our beautiful Chocolate lab. We picked her up the DAY AFTER we returned from our honeymoon. What were we thinking!? lol And – this is why I haven’t been writing lately 😉 She keeps us busy! She is VERY high energy and at the moment, high needs.
She was the runt of her litter and about 6 or 7 pounds when we got her.
Lola soon made her personality well known! She is sassy, rambunctious, a bit on the wild side, extra nippy (as we learned most chocolate labs are) a little on the clingy side and EXTRA intelligent. This pup knows how we work!!!! I have literally joined every single lab group I could find on Facebook and take solace in the fact that other people are going through what we are going through. Someone described chocolate lab puppies as toddlers with razor sharp teeth that they are not afraid to use! This is so true. She is remorseful now after chewing on us (we both yelp loud to mimic another dog) and then she sits by our feet and licks us lol.
The first two weeks were rough. I won’t sugar coat things! I had battle scars from chewing and biting and It was hard getting up every hour to two hours to let her out (teaching her proper potty training) and she also developed round worm which complicated things.Two nights in a row we came down to her barking and her crate full of diarrhea and she was covered in it too – UGH Poor thing. It was very out of her norm as she rarely had soiled in her crate before. We had to take her to the vet for some de worming and probiotics. That was expensive.
Despite our exhaustion – it’s all been worth it. Getting a puppy/dog can teach and force you into so many things that might be out of your comfort zone ; patience, selflessness, trust, routine, physical fitness and stamina and more.
We have fallen for this sassy little girl! Not so little anymore.
Lola is in her 11th week! She has pretty much doubled her weight since we got her 
🐶🐶🐶 She is 16 pounds of chocolate chunk! She can sit, lay down, shake both paws and go potty on command. She LOVES chewing on her toys and her humans 
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🙈 she loves collecting sticks outside. She loves food and eats it way too fast. She especially loves training treats. She loves sleeping by her humans feet. 
❤️ She plays for an hour or two and sleeps for an hour all day long. She still gets up once or twice over night for potty. We are down to one or two and sometimes even No accidents in the house daily. She hates the vacuum!! We are working on leash training and the command “leave it” ❤️❤️❤️
I was always raised in a household of Dog lovers. We always had a dog! We had a border collie named Maggie for almost 19 years. She was the best damn dog around. Our dogs were treated like Queens. They were allowed in my parents bed, on the couch, they were spoiled with treats and toys and long walks. They weren’t looked at as “dirty” and we trained them well. We respected them and therefore they respected us. They were apart of the family and that’s all I had ever known. Brent was raised a little differently and I was hesitant about getting a pup but desired one so badly! However, I am so impressed with how he has taken to Lola and how he treats her. Lola absolutely LOVES him. She is such a sucky daddys girl! Dogs are just good for the soul, yanno? They are man and woman’s best friend and definitely will enrich your life if you treat and raise them right!
“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
― Mark Twain
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace.”
― Milan Kundera
“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”
― Josh Billings
A lot of people in my life are questioning our decision to get a dog right now instead of “just having a baby” – well that’s another post for another day 😉 Lola has already provided us with so much happiness and I know is helping my soul and emotional healing day by day. She makes me laugh SO hard. And that my friends, cannot be a bad thing.
Do you have a fur baby? Let me know in the comments!
Until next time…
XO Jocelyn
Intuitively Healing 