Puppy Number 3

Today was the Fun Day at the California Campus and is was going to be a bittersweet day for me. One, it was Focus` recall and two, I would be getting my third puppy. Fun Day all together was very fun (will post about Fun Day, Goodbye to Focus, and Walk With the Trainer tomorrow hopefully.) All in all Fun Day was very fun and towards 2:00 I was getting very anxious, it meant puppy delivery would start!

It was finally 2:00 and they were right on schedule. They called all the raisers that would be getting a puppy to come up to the stage. They started reading off the raiser and then the puppy would be handed to you with the name announced. Mick read about 10 raiser`s names before he got to mine. I was getting very excited to meet my "R" boy! Finally he announced his litter and I was the third raiser to get a puppy. When they announced my name I went to the center of the stage, and racing through my mind was all the horrible "R" names there were and that I was going to get one of those names.

So without further or do I would like to introduce my new little puppy...... Ryder!!!

Don`t you all like the picture? We were leaving campus and I offered him a drink of water and this is what he did, and at one point he did drink laying like this! We all figured he was hot, and I got the lucky job of carrying him all the way to car.

I was very exited about the name, it was a name I really liked! Funny thing about his name is, my friend about a year and a half ago raised her first GDB puppy and his name was Ryder! Unfortunately he was Career Changed and did not make it. So having a Ryder again in our club is pretty cool and unusual.

On the way home he was great, he slept most of the way and was awake very little. I found out that he was a snuggler and wanted to sleep only on my lap. He was great the entire 4 hour drive and caused no problems. When I got home, my family was very excited to meet him! So while they played with him I prepared his food which I found out very fast that he does not like to eat. He maybe ate 1/4 cup but after 3 hours I threw the rest away. So hopefully he will realize that he needs to eat!