Dog Adjusting To A New House: a house log

Some of you have asked how Burger’s getting along in the new house. Short answer: strong. Short answer with a fancy Mary-Poppins-ish twist: simply splendidly.

It only took him a day or two to figure out where his food bowl now lives and which door to wait at when he needs to go out. Other than that, he seems to be having lively discovering (and re-discovering) his go-to spots to hang. Here are some shots from the last two months to document his enjoy for the new casa.

This one was taken fairly much right after we moved in. He swiftly identified this sun-warmed corner of the rug in the living room and enjoyed to park his keister there every morning.

It was part of his quite own GTL routine – growl, tan, lick myself. Yes, we watch Jersey Shore since it is my wife’s home state.

Though that routine has been interrupted by the introduction of Karl the sectional (since he blocks the sunspot), Burger has discovered a few new sun-drenched locations lately- including the windowsill itself. He’s such a cat sometimes. Here he is snuggled up in Clara’s hospital blanket (we brought it home for him to get used to her scent and now it is his official “blankie”).

Sometimes he’ll move his relaxing into one of our laps, which truly is a win-win for everyone on a cold morning.

And occasionally he even helps supervise Clara during playtime. Although he tends to sleep on the job. Unless of course a noise is heard outside. Then all howl breaks loose. See what I did there? I replaced h-e-double-hockey-sticks with the word howl. Booyah.

But when he’s not campaigning for the laziest chihuahua in the world title, he does his fair share of “quality control” – which in short means he helps us test out new purchases. Like our duvet:

And our new sectional pillows (even before the sectional was here, we tossed them on the sleeper sofa in the office and Burger took them for a test ride):

He also manages to squeeze in some playtime too, typically with his go-to toy: Divalectible. It was a gift (for Clara, in fact) that Burger took an keen liking to. Do not judge us for the name of this compact stuffed chihuahua with a pink feather boa on it (Divalectible is in fact its given “Beanie Baby name” and somehow it stuck). But feel free to judge Sherry for the weird noise that she makes during this video. I call it her “excited dolphin call.” She does it to get the dog to come a runnin’. Simply not typically in public. Or on youtube.

Of course, it should come as no surprise that Burger continues to spend most of his days under the covers. So even though there is a whole new house for him to explore, we have certainly got the same ol’ Burger on our hands.

So that is what our oldest child has been up to when he’s not “supervising” as we paint or demo something around the house. Life’s good when you are an eight pound chihuahua.

Psst- If all goes well we might simply have another post today or tomorrow for ya. Let us simply say that we have at last began gaining guest bedroom momentum (with simply 6 days until the inlaws arrive – yikes) so we are most likely working away as you read this. And Burger’s likely supervising.