Chuki

So the pupsters is here and he's been with us for a smidge over 24 hours and we're in love. His name is Chuki. Its pronounced like chew-key. He's teeny tiny and mostly brown. He's got a little white spot under his mouth and 2 of his feet have little white spots. But other than that he's all brown.

He's only 6 weeks old. In America you probably wouldn't be allowed to take a puppy home at 6 weeks but here in Ecuador, "No problem man." He's been weened so he's eating dry puppy food. We're working on going potty outside. So far there haven't been too many full fledged accidents. Usually, we catch him right before or at the very beginning and we move him outside.

The main thing is that he's used to sleeping with 8 other little puppies all in one teeny tiny dog house. So his great comfy bed is scary and lonely. Basically, he whined all night. I think/hope he'll do better tonight. We've been playing a lot in his room (the laundry room) so that he actually likes being in there. Every time we've come back into the house he's gone straight for his room (YAY!). During the day he really doesn't whine at all, which is nice.

But about what's really important... his cuteness! Gosh he's soo stinking cute. Everything he does is just darling. I'm serious. I can't explain it. You'll just have to come and see for yourself. Although I can tell you that Ryan and I get the most laughs out of him doing the stairs in our apartment or anywhere really. He's just so small that he has to really work to get up anything. Then going down is more like PLOP.

We went for a really long walk today to tire him out. We'll probably go for another one in a little while so that he's tired for tonight. The best part about taking him out of the house is that EVERYONE just gushes and he LOVES it! In fact, when he sees someone coming he just sits down and waits for them to come over to him. For some reason, if they don't he looks at them like "why don't you think I'm cute" or something like that. Anyways, he's great with strangers and strangers love him.

He just got up from a nap and wandered into the living room. He's curled up next to me about to fall asleep. =) Ahh puppy love!