kitpuppies: May 2006

New Photos! Playdate May 18th! Scroll down!

Sorry I haven't been keeping up with the photo posting. Pups at this age are very active and they have been keeping me busy. Next week, I will be out of town and David will be on puppy patrol. I do not really expect that he will take photos. So, enjoy these photos and I will try to post some more that you have not seen from earlier puppy adventures tomorrow.

Pups' and Kids 1st playdate, more photos: May 7
Scroll down for playdate photos from May 18!

Pups & people enjoying a sunny afternoon: May 7

Puppy playdate: May 18, evening

Great fun was had by all pups and people.

I am really pleased with how these pups respond to kids, strange adults, dogs outside their own pack, noise, adventure, and new things in general. Pups were good about being held and bold and full of fun when not on laps. It is especially important to expose Standard Schnauzer pups who do not live with their own children to kids. SS can be amazingly great with kids if they are raised with them. If the grow up without positive exposure to kids, SS will tend to be suspicious of children because they will not know what a child is and what are typical gestures and noises of children. In the photos that follow, you can see that these pups accept kids and I expect that-- with continued exposure to children in their new homes--these pups will be good with kids.

Puppies on the lap are a good thing. Even adults enjoy a puppy on the lap.

Pups and kids love playing puppy on the lap

Parental supervision is a must when kids and pups get together

Friends: May 18, evening

Jennifer and daugher, Lily, enjoy holding puppies.
The pups seem content as well.

Ash goes for a ride in the puppy taxi. Yu Chen is his taxi driver.
He seems to be enjoying the ride.

Like typical pups, these schnauzers enjoy getting into places they should not ...

Of course, having a human friend pick them up and put them in the plants doesn't hurt, they think. You can see their shepardXhusky mix friend, Neka, watching Lily put the puppy in the plants. Though not a pup herself, Neka clearly approves.