Happy and Blessed New Year to all ! Our "first night" started with friends and puppies. I have to giggle every time I think about the requests we make of our family and friends. It sure is a good thing we have the BEST of both! It seems to me that for the last couple of years we have had "holiday" puppies and I have been making some pretty big requests. I have delivered puppies at my sister's house on Christmas Eve (a few years ago), brought puppies to my mother-in-law's house while we help sell Christmas trees, waited for puppies on Thanksgiving, and last night I called my friends and asked if I could bring our puppies to the New Year's Party. The funniest part was that they expected the puppies to just be running loose in their house- and they STILL said YES! How funny is that! Even I would not have said yes, to that request. Well, I bring puppies to enough different places to know how to pack for them. I pack a tarp to put down 1st, then newspaper, then surround it with a portable x-pen, and the puppies are safe, and have a place to potty. They travel in a crate.
The hosts of this party have 3 dogs of their own, plus parrots. When we arrived the birds were making a ton of noise. I thought, oh this is great! My puppies never would have heard parrots. When I first got them out of the crate, they all huddled together on the crate pad- but they acclimated quickly. The next time they all huddled together was at mid-night when everyone was using their "noise makers". Again, it was a short-term stress from which they recovered.
I was so happy that they got to travel, go to a new place, meet a ton of people, hear new things, and start the year off with a bunch of dog loving people.
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The hosts of this party have 3 dogs of their own, plus parrots. When we arrived the birds were making a ton of noise. I thought, oh this is great! My puppies never would have heard parrots. When I first got them out of the crate, they all huddled together on the crate pad- but they acclimated quickly. The next time they all huddled together was at mid-night when everyone was using their "noise makers". Again, it was a short-term stress from which they recovered. 
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