Introducing Logan

I told you last week about our special delivery. Well, now he's here, so it's time for you to meet him.

As I mentioned last week, his name is Logan, and I've been following his progress since he was born on April 14th 2019.

But what, you ask, is Logan?

As I ended up admitting on Twitter and Facebook in replies to a couple of the posts I did on Sunday, Logan is a dog. Actually, if you want to be completely accurate, Logan is an apricot and white Cavapoo.

We've been talking since soon after we got Lilie about getting her a pal, and have finally done so.

A Cavapoo - for those who don't know - is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel x Toy Poodle. In Logan's case, his Mother (Posy) is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, and his Father (Barkly) is a Toy Poodle. Posy is a tri-colour (white, black, and tan) and Barkly is mostly cream with a chocolate brown patch on his nose. I don't have any photos of Barkly, but you'll get to see Posy among the photos in this post.

By the way, in the interests of full disclosure: the photos and video in this post were taken by Tessa Marchand of Castellan House Kennels, were eMailed to me by her, and are being shared with her permission.

Those of you who knew Kero's full title (Castellan Keroberous) or who have checked out the pet pages of my website, might find the name of the breeder familiar. Yes. It's the same place we got Kero from, about fifteen years ago. Only this time we live too far away to have been able to visit regularly, so had to settle for following his progress via photos, eMails, and telephone conversations. We also posted a blanket and toy with my scent on to Logan (I hand delivered a toy with my scent on it to Kero) and used the services of a professional pet courier - who Tessa has worked with enough that she could recommend him - to bring our little boy home.

No, pet couriers aren't cheap. But it actually only cost a little more than it would have cost us to go fetch him, while being a whole lot less stressful for the little guy, since doing it ourselves would have meant a lot of swapping trains and cars, where as having Chris (the courier) bring him home, he could be in the same vehicle for the entire trip, with fans and air conditioning available to him. It shortened the journey by a few hours for Logan doing it that way too. We consider it worth the extra bit of money to make things easier on Logan.

Anyway, I'm sure you want to see those photos - and video - I mentioned having been sent by Tessa, right? So prepare yourself for a lot of puppy cuteness, since Tessa sent a lot of photos, as well as a video, allowing us to watch each of his milestones as he grew from a tiny little fluffball who couldn't do anything but make squeaky sounds and nuzzle his Furmama for his food, to the eight week old puppy who finally came home on Sunday.

First, here's Logan at a week old:


Here he is about a week later (at 13 days old):


Here he is four days later (at 17 days old) with his eyes just about open:


Remember I mentioned sending him a blanket and toy? Well, here he is two days later (at 19 days old) on the blanket I sent him, playing with the cow toy I sent along with the blanket:


Logan apparently loved the toy, and so did Posy, who also played with it sometimes. I can't help hoping Posy wasn't too disappointed when it came home with him. Bless her.

Anyway, Logan learned to properly stand on his own four paws right on schedule at around four weeks old. The day after he was officially considered able to walk - so, two days after he turned four weeks old - we got these photos of him, complete with obviously frequently played with cow toy:


Two days later, at the age of four and a half weeks, Logan had an adventure.

You see, Logan is the only puppy in his litter. So, to help him learn the social skills and behaviours puppies would normally learn while playing with their littermates, Logan went to puppy playschool. Yes, you read that right. Playschool. It's like the doggy version of the Mother-toddler daycare type groups some parents take their kids to. Only it's for puppies.

Anyway, happy to help us not miss out on any of his milestones, Tessa was kind enough to send photos of Logan's first day at playschool, so here he is, making friends on his first day at puppy playschool:


He went to playschool every day after that, and even went to a sleepover a couple of times - once he was eating puppy food, and old enough to be away from his Furmama for long enough. Puppy slumber party. Love it!

Speaking of Logan's Furmama: near the start of this post, I promised you'd get to see Posy among the photos. So, here's Logan with his Furmama, right around the time he turned five weeks old:


The day Logan turned six weeks old, Tessa sent us a video she took of him while he was at puppy playschool. Anyone who follows my YouTube channel will have had a sneak peek, since I actually uploaded it on there a couple of days later. But, for those who haven't yet seen it, here it is:






Now, here he is at seven and a half weeks old - just a few days before he came home to us:


Logan had his first puppy shot the day that last batch of photos was taken (June 5th) and his vet check was described as, "A1," so that's good. He's scheduled to have the other part four weeks later. He's all booked in for July 4th at 11:00am, because I couldn't do the 3rd, since I have an appointment myself that day. I want to keep today's post about dogs though, so I'll tell you about that next week. We would have taken him in on the 21st of June, when Lilie has to go back to the vet to have the other half of her shot, but he won't be ready to have it yet then... It's about two weeks too early. So, July 4th it is, and no walkies for him until almost mid July.

Anyway, on Sunday morning, which was the day he turned 8 weeks old, Chris (the dog courier) picked him up from Tessa bright and early (at about 6:00am) so by the time I got up at 7:00am he was already on his way, and I woke up to an eMail letting me know he was on his way, complete with photos. So, here's Logan, ready to make his journey home to us:


We have, of course, taken more photos since he arrived home a few hours after that last batch was taken on Sunday. We should have a video or two as well. There are some Lilie photos too, of course... Got to include our baby girl! But we haven't had a chance to sort the stuff on the camera yet. We're too busy enjoying having Logan home at last, and the fact Lilie finally has a little brother to play with (when she wants to play with him). Luckily, this post contains plenty of puppy cuteness to keep you going while you wait for us to stop basking in our two adorable pups long enough to see what shots we ended up taking. I'm hoping to have at least some of them ready for Friday's post, when you'll learn how Lilie and Logan's first days together went.

Before I end this, I'd just like to say one more thing: thank you, Tessa, and Chris, for our new baby boy. I suppose I should thank Posy and Barkly too, since he certainly wouldn't be here without them. *wink*