Bonding with the BABY GIRL!!!!!!!

We have had Ivory since we got married in October....6 months. Over that time she's been the oddest little dog in the world. She's very cute and has her own special ways. The first time my husband went away to visit his family...she had only been with us for a month and was pretty much scared of anything and everything. She hid in the closet a couple of times for no apparent reason. Since then my husband spends all day with her letting her run around being her silly Tard face self and he gives her as much love as any one person possibly could. They have a very special bond and you can see it in her happy smiling face that she loves him so much.

Now that it's 6 months later and my husband is gone again, Ivory has had some time just with me. I don't get to spend all day with her because I have to work but we have our routine and we have had some sweet bonding moments. When we wake up in the morning, I let her go outside to pee and when she comes back, I always have a cookie waiting for her. She runs in the house after doing her business and she does her happy excited food dance. It's the cutest thing. While she's sitting down she moves her front legs, lifting one after the other. If you get her really excited she'll start jumping around. I have been giving her a whole bone cookie from the monster value pack I got before Clayton passed away and she loves them. I don't play with her as rough as my husband does and she doesn't play that rough with me but we still have fun. I'll jump onto the bed and she'll try to get me. She'll box you out like she's getting a rebound in the NBA over a 6'11" guy or she'll lick you until you're covered in her spit. She thinks she has ways to get what she wants but they don't usually work. She's a little heater that loves to snuggle and that's great. When I'm so cold that I can't move I roll over to lay next to her and she warms me up in no time.

Our bonding time has been great so far. She has been so sweet to me, and has really helped me not miss my hubby as much. She's just so happy even with him not around. She has me and that's good enough for her. Unlike Cujo who would miss Den like crazy. I was ok but I wasn't daddy. I was chopped liver (well that's a good things to dogs I guess...but I wasn't very good) compared to him. With Ives...I'm way better than that. She has a happy tail every morning. We run around and play at lunch time. Things are good. She's back to being my baby as well as Den's baby.