It has been a busy week since the last posting on the site. We spent all last week away – our first family vacation took us up to Maine. Quincy was great at riding just fine in the car. It did take us a long time to get anywhere since we stopped often for him to eat. We split the trip up into two legs – the first leg terminated in Leominster, MA, where we got to see our good friends Brady and Tracey (and Max). Quincy gave them a sneak peak at life with an infant with his morning wails during his 4:30am feeding. 🙂
After that, it was up to Maine for some leaf-peeping and other general fun activities. On the way home, we stopped in Freeport, ME, home to LL Bean, and spent some dough on the little guy at the outlets. All-in-all, the trip went rather well, except for the nail in the one tire that we picked up somewhere along the way. We had it plugged at a Cooper Tire place in Brunswick, ME and then kept on going.
Today was Quincy’s 2 month well-baby visit. He is doing great and exploding up the charts. He weighed in at 13lbs and is now 2 feet tall. His height is in the 81st percentile and his weight is in the 74th percentile. Not bad considering his weight had dropped down to the 17th percentile after he was born. He is feeling pretty grumpy now since he received four needles at his visit, but he is sleeping it off mainly. The doc thinks that he might be getting ready to cut some teeth soon and that might be why he is being finicky at times over eating. Quincy goes back in 2 months for more shots – yeah!
I received an interesting phone call this morning from the kennel where Ashby was “vacationing”. The lady asked me when I was coming to get him. I was going to go after Quincy’s appt (and I did). She was asking because Ashby was not doing very well. He decided that he hated a couple of the other dogs that were there – bigger dogs. He would bark incessantly at them and then wouldn’t let anybody get near him. I was all upset driving out there, but when I got there, I spoke with the people and they said that when they moved him a different area of the kennel, he was fine. They were even able to bathe him. One thing that I did notice was that they took off his gentle-leader collar. I know that did more harm than good since he acts up without it. We thought Ashby might be banned from the kennel, but now everything is good. Phew! He’s happy to be home and we’re happy to have him home.
That wraps it up here. Oh, I did get Quincy’s 9 week photo all loaded up, so go and take a peek – it was taken BEFORE he got his shots.
