April 15, 2003
All the puppies have left for their new homes and Speckles is now settling in to life here with
us and the rest of the pack. After his brothers and sisters kept leaving in cars, he was somewhat
apprehensive of going in one in fear he might not come back either. For the first few months after all the
pups were gone he went with us everywhere, so he became quite a rider. His favorite places is going to the Post Office to visit the Postmaster, he would lay on the counter and just give her loves and kisses. Pets Mart is his other favorite place he loves going to, he would ride in the cart and check out all the toys and goodies. But as summer came it was too hot to go along so he needed to stay home with mom, dad and Wolfie.
We added the extension of Beckley to his name and it has become his informal name, formally he is Speckles-Beckley the 1st. He was, from the day he was born been a little aloof, while the other puppies of the litter always packed together he was always the one off by himself and wanted the reassurance of our love. Which is the reason why we selected him to keep with us, we gave him extra love and attention. He is a mommas boy, he doesn't let me out of his site. He is a very calm, sweet, sensitive, loyal, loving, and intelligent.
Beckley loves to play jungle boy and hides in the brush when we go for walks.
Beckley the couch potato and curls up in a comfortable spot for knap,
usually on pillows like mom ( TamarahK )
May 27th, 2003
We had been looking for kittens to raise with the pups before they were even born and were unable
to find any kittens until now. We got Beckley two baby kittens 6 weeks old to grow up with him which we named Fraidy Mittens and Fearless Toes because of their poly-toes. The Kittens were excepted as part of the pack immediately. TamarahK (Mom) decided that they were her new puppies and she told Beckley he was not the puppy anymore. Although Beckley was sad about that he was very excited about his new pack members. A couple of times we thought that we lost the kittens, we couldn't find them anywhere, we looked and looked to no avail and finally found them curled up sleeping in the dogs large toy basket among all the toys. The kittens love the dogs, especially Beckley and TamarahK. Even Timbuk2 that doesn't care for our other cat Skeeter, guards the kitties and he doesn't want Skeeter playing with them, he comes to the kittens rescue if he even thinks Skeeter might hurt them.