Mikkel's Life!

He likes to chew, luckily he has many different things to chew on.

He likes to sleep.. especially on shoulders.

He especially likes to play in the snow!
Another snow monkey photo.. [link]

He channels his inner Nemo, and is quickly becoming a pillowwhore!

Yep, this is the life, he says! On his back and hogging the pillows!

Another chew toy, his kong. The tiniest kong I have ever seen!
Adorable! [link to just kong photo]

NO PHOTOS!

Life with Mikkel!

We have had little Mikkel home for nearly 2 weeks now, and finding time to do anything but play with him, feed him, potty him, walk him, occupy him, cuddle him, and watch him sleep blissfully is incredibly hard but so so worth it. Even with the little surprises he leaves.

The first few night, he woke up and cried a few times but a quick touch let him know he wasn't alone and off back to sleep he went. It wasn't long until he was sleeping through the night and for the most part, he hasn't done potty time inside at night. Apart from a couple of exceptions where his ass was on fire from the de-worming stuff and he was trying to get back into being 'regular'. Accidents are bound to happen with a new puppy but for the most part he does have very good control, just the wrong way around! He will get it right eventually and in the meantime, I have to keep a cool head and just use my 'Piss Off' spray and smile.

Emma had a slightly worse potty experience with him in the form of him pooping in her hand, he just doesn't have an off button once he starts peeing or pooing. So if you move him, there will be casualties! Yep, we totally signed up for this!

He is a very social little guy, making conversations with everyone we meet. There is no sneaking past anyone, he wants to meet them all.. in fact, just this morning after dropping Emma off at the station, we walked past a shop window and he saw very still people inside. He stopped..

..stared at them.. cocked his head, barked a little as if to say.. "play with me!" much like in this video [link to video] and then proceeded to run head first into the glass. Sadly, I did not catch that on camera. It's these moments that I wish I had a camera in my eye! He is a funny little guy, indeed.

So over the past few weeks he has met many new people and many new dogs, his first meeting with Hjulle, was a little frightening for him to start with but he slowly warmed up, by the next visit, he was chasing Hjulle to get him to play. Hjulle isn't so sure how to play with something so small right now, being that he has always had German shepherds to frolic with.

He has also met a little black schnauzer on his daily walks to the park for some off leash time, he was scared of her to start with but again, next meet, he was all up in there! Then there are a few other dogs around the place but the most important meeting was with Leia, a Finnish lapphund, who belongs to a long time friend of Emma's. They met last night and hit it off smashingly! There was no being scared, Mikkel was all up in there having a blast with his new buddy! It was delightful and then as soon as he got home.. he jumped in to bed and zonked with his fox.. [link to photo]. I think they are going to be best of friends, causing strife at every turn! Just fantastic!

We have got him a wonderful bowtie, collar, and leash set. The set came with 3 collars so as he grows, we can switch them out. Not overly sure he will ever get into the biggest one, but that doesn't matter coz bowties are cool! How dapper does our little guy look?! It's a little on the big side for now, but it will be perfect when he is a little bigger.

Also, here is the [link] to Emma's insta photo.. look at that face?!

All in all I think Mikkel is settling into life with us.. I like to think we are giving him a good life and I think he is going to give us a good life too.. so on that note, I shall leave you with a few adorable life photos of our darling boy.. [Mikkel's Life!]

In other news, I have successfully taught him to 'sit'. He listens and does it every time I say it now. He is a very good boy. If only I could get him to understand that 'come' means to come to me rather than to cock ones head and stare blankly.. but then again he is only 11 weeks old and we can only tackle one command a week.. right?!

Don't forget you can catch more regular photo's and video's on mine and Emma's instagram account.. Emma's account.. [link] and my account.. [link]

And here is the one where he played with the candy ball.. [link]

disclaimer: this was typed with Mikkel on the desk in front of me attempting to eat my fingers in-between power-naps.

Photos! - It's All Mikkel!

Isn't he just so much adorablez?!

Let Me Introduce...

..Mikkel! 

Mikkel in the MonkeySuit!

3 very long months ago, we discovered a kennel in Sweden had a litter of affenpinscher puppies on the agenda. We approached them as we had been searching for some months prior for the right puppy to become a part of our little family. As soon as I saw the monkey face of the affen, I just knew that was the right one for me.. us! After a few emails back and fourth, and once the puppies were actually born, we were told that we were going to be lucky owners of a beautiful affen! Time moved even slower, as we watched week by week the growing faces of the cute little pups, still not knowing who would be all ours. We did have our eyes on what turned out to be Mikkel. There was just something about him.. quite possibly the brown made him look more wookie like than the others and being Star Wars fans, that is a big plus!

At 5 weeks of age, we headed to Stockholm to go and meet the little critters! They mainly slept.. as puppies do but we got to have a little play with most of them. Mikkel, (kennel name: Caudatus Molepolole) and I had already fallen in love.. [video] and it was a good sign that he went right up to the camera for Emma.. perhaps too close?! [photo]

We had another 5 weeks of waiting after that.. 5 very long weeks and even though you had Christmas and New Year's in there.. it draggggggged. We just wanted our boy home already, we had to suffice with the weekly updates of cuteness and I gushed over them repeatedly. It was quite terrible.

But finally, the day arrived. We packed a bag and headed off to Stockholm once again, for the journey to begin of a life with a pup again. And now we are home with the little tubbster and things couldn't be more wonderful.. even if he did pee inside. It was actually a rather epic pee.. we took him out and he didn't seem to want to do it.. new surroundings, cold, and being dark outside didn't help matters I would say, so we let him in... he ran straight into the living room (where we had prepared flooring so that when he did pee, it wouldn't be a big deal), popped a squat, looked directly at Emma and peed. It was almost like he did it on purpose! Fantastic, a pup with 'tude! Perfect for us! hahaha

After sleeping nearly the entire train ride home, when we got home, you can imagine he wasn't so tired. He didn't really want to go down, cried a little and seemed to want to jump in the bed with us... Emma. But, once the light was off.. there were a few little cries before he admitted defeat and went off to snoozeland. I heard him a couple of times during the night, nothing too upsetting and I guess Emma put her hand down and that was the end of it. Nearly 7 hours later, he was still sleeping but I got up to pee and that was his signal to get up and get up he did.. I threw some clothes on and took him down and finally he peed outside! What a good boy! When I came up, I saw that he hadn't peed at all during the night! Dumb luck, I would say haha but it would be nice if that was going to be the norm.

We have spent our first morning with him, feeding him, toileting him, playing with him and admiring him sleeping [photo] and boy does he sleep! and he looks wicked adorable when he does...

Are those not the most kissable puppy lips, ever?!

And one more of those lips.. that 'snout!'

Suffice to say, I am extremely happy with our new addition and I am looking forward to many many new adventures with my new partner in crime!

Mikkel on PackDog.. [link]