Ya don't say?!

What's with the dogs and beer logos you ask? Well, Mikey and I both like Guinness and Stella Artois. Mmmm....quite good imports if you ask me. What else can I tell you about the beer? Stella Artois is brewed in Leuven, Belgium where Mikey played pro hockey...hmmm, let's see, what else? OH YEAH! They are the names of our doggies!

Silly I know, but when we were deciding what to name Guinness, there were a few names...Reggie Dunlop, Gretz - I liked Popcorn or Pickle - but we finally landed on Guinness. We joked then that any other dogs we adopted would have to be named after an imported beer - if it was a girl, Stella and if a boy, Boddington. Stella she is. Thank God it was a girl as I can't yell Boddington really fast without getting tongue tied.

Just to clear things up, if and when we do have children, they will have normal names, and not one of them will be named Kokane, Labatt, Coors or Lucky.

End of week 1 and Stella is doing super duper. I have got her pretty close to being completely paper trained, Guinness is realizing he can't put her whole tiny head in his mouth and not have her squeal and I caved after two days and we are all sleeping in the bed. Yes, it's a bit crowded and noisy (with the snoring competition between the other three as I definitely don't snore) but we all sleep through the night (at least 5 or 6 hours) without the whimpering/whining sessions and a few trips to the puppy crate.

All in all good week. Very tired, but good week.

You know what else? You can love a second thing as much as you loved the first – even if you want to choke them both for incessant barking, whining, growling and living room wrestling matches every half hour!