Trixie’s New “Thing”

 Trixie is a good little dog in spite of training difficulties.  She will be five in March and she is getting more mellow.  So, we are trying some new things.

She doesn’t ride well in the car, mostly jumping all over me and making the short trip to the vet seem like a 6 hour road trip.  But, her desire to go bye bye is great.  In the front seat she is a miserable thing, she won’t stay on the floor, she wants on my lap she gets too excited and drools like a basset hound.  If I put her in the back seat with her seat belt she calms right down but I have to be back there with her.

That doesn’t work well if I am the one driving.  If Hubs is the one driving it feels a bit like “Driving Miss Daisy” and I am not ready to be there yet.  So, what is a doggo mom to do?

CARSEAT!

One of Trixie’s Christmas presents was a car seat.  I did a reasonable amount of research and since I know her well I know anything like a pillow or stuffed animal won’t make it around the block before it becomes history.  So, I needed something soft and cushy but not fluffy.

I checked out Piggy Poo and Crew but decided their was a bit too basic.  So this is what I settled on —

There are straps that go around the headrest and then the seat belt slips through loops (of a sort) on the front and hooks in to the regular seat belt latch.

We tried it on for size.  It is a small — Trixie isn’t small — up to 25 lbs. and she is 18.8.  I was worried that she wouldn’t fit well and was pleasantly surprised to discover that she fits perfectly.  

I took it out of the box, it looks sturdy, and let her sniff it and then I put her in it and she has such a good time laying down, rolling around, sniffing — just acquainting herself with the concept.  I hooked the attached seat belt to her harness to see how it worked and yes, indeed, it was perfect.  Then she decided to exit said care seat, still attached and discovered that it was very easy to drag all over the couch — I caught her before she tried to jump off the couch — trust me, no car seats or Yorkies were injured or endangered during this process.

So, I am looking forward to going for our first drive —- maybe to Starbucks — someplace other than the vet.  

And Trixie’s new year includes getting to know her niece—Olive 

My grandpuppy - a standard poodle that rares up like a horse and likes to hit me with her huge paws.  We are going to introduce them — I have been hesitant to do so because Trixie is so little and Olive is so, well, not — so we will see.  It will be a big ask for both of them I think although Olive socializes at a dog park and Trixie has been very social at the vet (I caught her giving kisses to a medium size shaggy boy who was waiting for his appointment) so, crossing fingers.

So, that is our day so far — it is very cold outside but sunny and nice.  Have some errands to run and looking forward to the warm up tomorrow!