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Whew, finally have a second to post! I’ll try not to ramble. The visit to the breeder was excellent and couldn’t have gone better. All my worries have been erased and I fully recommend them for any PON seeker (because everyone is looking for one of course). We got there around 10:30am and after the rush of dogs came, Lynne brought out Burton and he was adorable! Much like the video he’s pretty quiet and easy going but not too shy. Definitely not afraid of checking out new people and things.

We ended up staying for 3 hours talking about PONs, giving Burton a bath and some grooming tips as well as feeding. He was the pick of the litter and Lynne was saying how she would keep him and how much like his father he was (head structure, not too long), good legs (not too leggy) and generally very PON-like, also with his general laid-backneess and easygoing nature. I hope she’s right! While he’s extremely adorable, I can’t help but feel like he’s always so suspicious of us. Maybe he hasn’t had time yet to settle in since it’s been really less than 24 hours.

We’ve mainly been focusing on house training and nipping, playing with him and gaining his trust. We’re teaching him sit/down in very short bursts (like 10 minutes total so far) and he’s done one sit without being led into it and a couple of downs being led to it.

He’s had a few accidents, mostly predictable. We were afraid of him screaming his lungs out last night, so we were too chicken to close him in his crate and it resulted in him peeing all over himself last night which meant a 2am bath. He was up again at around 5 and then again at 8:30. As today is progressing, its getting better and hopefully he’s getting the idea after we bring him out, and praise him when he does his thing, open sesame, or “Open sezme”.

We took him to the vet, to Bark ‘n Fitz and to Petsmart to pick up a few quick things and so while at these places, met 6 or 7 “dog people”. All of them were all “aaawwww” and usually have no idea what he is. We’ve gotten one “is he pure shitzu?” and another “what kind of mix is he?” The Bark ‘n Fitz girl thanked us for bringing him in and one Petsmart employee kept popping up in our aisle asking us if we needed help and then proceeding to play with Burton.

Anyway.. he’s definitely not a complete pushover, but we push him so we can teach him the rules and who’s in charge.. and that we’re not bad guys 🙂