New Pup with no mention of Helix Stadium

Alex Kenivel

Alex Kenivel

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Today marks Starla's second full day at our house. She's a 12wk old lab that we suprised the girls with this weekend. We took a road trip out into the sticks and met the whole doggy family; mother, father, litter mates, grandma. The adults were very well trained including being kennel trained and were absolutely adorable!
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Our 11 year old crotchety little Toki isn't a fan. It took him about a day to stop constantly barking at her while she either tried to play with him or ignore him but he's barked his barker off by now and glares at him.

It has been such a shake-up to the household. Kids are learning to pick up their things or they get chewed on. Satan knows they have way too many useless little toys that will end up destroyed. I welcome these changes.

Potty training has been a bit of an ordeal as the kids are learning. Starla decided to take a dump by the back door and my older daughter decided it was a good idea to pick her up mid-poop. :rofl

I knew what we were in for and look very much forward to getting our carpets replaced with something solid in the near future and no toys laying around.

I leave you with dog on foot.
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Starla has been great these past few weeks, she's getting bigger, smarter, more obedient. Still chewing like a MF but no longer soiling the carpet. We've rearranged the furniture and added a gate to the hallway to give her free reign of the living room and kitchen area. Still Crate trained and sleeps there every night and a few times throughout the day when we need to leave or need to get housework done.

It turns out dog training isn't much different than my profession of being a preschool teacher, except toddlers and babies are much slower and tend to hurt themselves instead of me.
I figured this out the day I had our older dog Toki coexisting in the living room with Starla.
Toki is such a crotchety, nervous old man who has had a lot of teeth removed so he's mostly harmless but barks his head off and tries to bite when Starla comes in for a stiff. She sees it as playing and goes to pounce, pissing him off causing him to make more noise, which in turn makes him look like a squeak toy to her.
They're both very food driven so they calm down when the treat bag appears.

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My wife couldn't believe how well they got along when she got home. It reminds me so much of children learning to interact with each other, share toys, share space, play in parallel vs together, etc.


Right now the girls are cuddling with Starla on the couch for some reading time with mom. She gets her last round of vaccinations next week and then we can finally take her to parks!
 
And I finally broke it to the girls that I had influenced the name Starla and the name is based on the PRS Starla.

The girls were singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to our freshly picked puppy on the car ride home when my youngest suggested the name Twinkle. We put it on the list of considerations but didn't necessarily like the name.

Earlier I had come up with the name Darla before we moved on to the dark/night-themed names when I mentioned Star. At that point I planted the seed. "What if we put Star and Darla together?" when my oldest daughter put it together for us "Starla!"

And the name was chosen.
 
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