Our Cane Corso - Envy

Envy is our Cane Corso puppy.  She was born on September 17, 2010.  Now that she is approaching her 5th month and to celebrate the first ever showing of the Cane Corsos at Westminster, I've decided to start a blog about her and our adventures raising her.


Every day is an adventure with Envy aka The Wonder Pup.  She joined a household with two kids, two cats, one lizard, and one other dog.  Quite the zoo.  It used to be larger, but the story of  "Our Girls" - the original three dogs we had - will come later.  


Envy was born in Virginia and came to live with us on November 17.   Her litter had 8 pups; 3 females, and 5 males.  At the time we were second on the list for females and though there was only one blue female, we knew our chances of getting her were slim.  We started to fall in love with one of the two black females.  We communicated with our breeder via email and she sent us weekly pictures.  At around 5 weeks, she let us know that we could have first pick of the females - including the blue one.  What an agonizing decision!  We thought about it for a few days and talked it over with the breeder.  The blue pup conformed so nicely and the black one seemed to have a great personality.  In the end, we decided to go with the blue female, because we knew we would have picked her if we had had first choice in the beginning.  We loved them all.  

After the decision was settled, we had to prep our home for a new puppy.  The last time we had a puppy had been about 16 years earlier.  Our kids had never had the adventure of potty-training, crate-training, training-training, you name it, with a puppy.  What an adventure that would be.  So the crate was purchased.  Two hot pink collars picked out (one puppy collar, one BIG girl collar), vet appointments made, training class signed up.  All set for a puppy to arrive.


To Be Continued. . . .