Leela Isabella was born on September 28th 2006. She was the youngest and smallest of a little of 9. Both her parents were Tri Color Beagles. The breeders we purchased Leela from reside in Provo, Utah and their Beagles are inside/outside dogs. She, as well as all over her ancestors, is a Pure Bred AKC registered Beagle.
I remember the the day I first saw Leela very well. It was Monday November 20th right before Thanksgiving. We a women sitting in the parking lot with a box of 3 Beagle puppies. We stopped to look and hold the puppies and I just fell in love with this little puppy. She was sassy and energetic, but snuggled up with you as you held her. Dan still had to finish his shift so I took him back to work, and then went back and got our first baby girl, Leela.
We went NUTS at Pets Mart! We bought her two beds, treats, toys, a blanket, puppy food, shampoo, a brush, nail clippers, perfume, breath mints, yeah . . . we like buying things for our baby girl.
That night we went to bed with her in our arms (well except the 15 times we got up to take her to the bathroom outside) It was hard to leave her home the next day as we both went to work. We laid out the training puppy pad for her to go to the bathroom on (cross your fingers) and we gave her loves and left. As soon as we set her down she was crying :( but we had to go. Dan came home for lunch to play with her and take her to the bathroom outside. I am not sure if it mattered because she had peed multiple times in the kitchen. What about the puppy training pad you say? Well it was used as a play toy and ripped to shreds!!
Yeah she looks so innocent and cute, when she is SLEEPING!
The rest of the week was about the same way, we had a few accidents on the bed at night, but she was so snuggly we had to sleep with her. We took her to my parents home in Lehi for the Thanksgiving Holiday where everyone LOVED her and she ate the plants in my Dads greenhouse, got sick, and threw up. To this day she will eat those plants if we let her, yeah I don't understand. lol
She slept with us at night and lived in the kitchen during the day until she was about 5 months old. One night she just decided she didn't want to anymore and she would jump off the bed and go into the kitchen. Every now and then she will sleep with us, she likes to be totally covered with the blankets. She likes to watch TV with us on the bed. It is so funny to see her reactions.
Our baby girl is a handful. She was very hard to house train because she is so independent, and she gets into everything, so we purchased baby gates to keep her in the kitchen. She very quickly learned to jump and climb over the gates. So we had to purchase a different kind of gate, she can't jump over or climb this gate, but she could squeeze through the bars . . .Dan had to finally put chicken wires up so she couldn't squeeze through, but she sure did try, she is a brave little dog.
What a sweetheart. She sure tries our patience when she pees on the floor just to show that she is in charge, or jumps up on the counter and pulls off a bowl or cup and chews it up, because she can - but we love her.
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