now we are 6

so! we did get 2 puppies last evening. we drove to oakville to get them and they are here. they are steve and dagmar, dagmar and steve. they were born on june 30, which i want to say makes them 7 weeks old today.

dagmar is a boy, the red one, and steve is the black and white bitch. (we're not all hung up on societal norms regarding gender.) dagmar is already quite adventuresome, climbing over everything and he's a bit of a chewer. steve is more reluctant but she's also quite sweet.

they don't seem terribly interested in the cats. i was worried there would be unpleasant confrontations. there have been a couple of staring matches but so far that's it. yellow hissed and dagmar backed off. i think they'll get used to each other in not too long. they're smaller than the cats, which i wasn't expecting but which is probably a good thing.

kara was up a few times with them during the night, letting them outside when they whined. (they stayed in the crate [sagan's old crate, which is huge for them] because we were worried they couldn't jump off our bed without injuring their little selves.) they play with each other nicely and wear themselves out quickly.

they are rather adorable. they're very small.