Introducing Andy Griffith

Yesterday we got a dog.  I had been wanting a Yorkie.  I had one growing up and they are such good dogs.  We found a seller fairly close who had 2 male dogs left, that were fairly reasonably priced.  We went last night to see the dogs.  They were so cute.  One was really rambunctious.  He was jumping all over the other one, and was biting my finger (his teeth must have been coming in).  The other one was much shyer, but very sweet.  We decided to go with the shyer of the two.

He is such a sweet little dog.  He was so scared when we were bringing him home yesterday.  He was drooling all over, which apparently he does when he's nervous.  I had a blanket over me, but he still drooled through the blanket.  He also threw up on me.  Twice.  It was awesome.  Luckily by that point we were almost home.

I took him this morning to get his shots.  He must have sensed that we were going to do something "scary" because he was drooling all over me in the car again.  We got to the clinic and you could hear dogs in the back whining, and Andy was just shaking.  He was so scared.  I weighed him and he was 6.5 lbs, with the leash on.

He got his first set of shots and dewormed.  I didn't watch, but was told that he didn't enjoy it very much.  I have to take him back in 3-4 weeks for his second set, and he'll need 1 more set after that.

He is a really good dog.  He just sits on my lap while I work.  I've only heard him whine a little bit.  I've yet to hear him bark.  He still hasn't figured out how to go up and down the stairs.  He did jump off the couch today, though.  Yesterday he was too scared to do that.  He is afraid of the vacuum, and tried to jump onto the couch to get away from it, but couldn't quite figure it out.