I’ve been with my foster mama for almost 7 weeks now. When I first came to stay I was a shy, scared and unsure little puppy.  But fast forward to today and I absolutey love and embrace life!

When I first met my new and much bigger 4-legged foster brother and sister I will admit that they tended to scare me a bit. But today I love a good game of keep away and chase with my foster brother. But even more than that I love, love, love a good wrestling match with my foster sister.

On my very first day of Puppy Obedience class I was unsure of everything, including the other dogs and all of the people and noise. For most of the first class I hid under my foster mama’s chair. But just this last week I finished my last class and the teacher said that I had totally come out of my shell. All I know is that by the end play time was my favorite part of  class. I also didn’t mind when we had to work hard at our tricks because then I got lots of good treats. I now know fun stuff like sit, down, extended down and even shake! I love to shake!

I’ve even come around to car rides. In the beginning you could say that I had issues with car rides. During my very first car ride I was sick 5 times. But today I absolutely love car rides. Car rides mean fun things like trips to the park, to the store, to class, visiting my puppy friends. Now when we go outside and walk towards the car I perk up and get excited. I’m not quite big enough to jump in all by myself like my foster sister and brother but I’m working on it.

Here’s a few other things that you should know about me:

I’ve gotten to go to work with my foster mama before and I think that it’s the best. Everyone comes by to visit me, I get a special toy and bone to bring with and when I’m really tired I crawl under the desk and take a nap at my foster mama’s feet.

I love to give nose kisses. If you want to know what I mean come meet me, hold me and you’ll find out!

I like to watch TV with my foster mama. By watching TV I don’t mean just falling asleep on the couch next to my mama. Instead I watch the TV. I cock my head from side to side, I stare at the TV. One time when it was really late at night my foster mama and I were watching a very scary movie. At one of the scariest parts of the movie I started barking at the TV. That made me foster mama jump really high! I don’t know why but she turned it off and said we’d have to wait until the next day to finish it.

I have lots of names. My actual name is Vienne. My name is French for the city of Vienna. I’m also called Baby Vi, Vi, Vienne Bien (when my foster mama calls me this she says that I am trilingual!).

My foster mama describes my personality like this: I know what I want and I want what I want. I’m not for sure what she means exactly but she says that the cute picture of my butt says it all. All I know is that I really wanted the spilt treats and I was going to find a way to go get them! My foster mama says says that I’m not head strong or stubborn but rather that I have no problem using a little ingenuity, the tricks that I know and my cuteness to get what I want. Hey, what’s wrong with that?

I’m also a great cuddler. When I’m not busy playing then I’m usually cuddling my foster mama or foster sister. I think that my foster sister is the best. I always want to do whatever she’s doing, I even sometimes use her as my very own pillow!

Vienne will be available for adoption after 8/1/09

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