Unleash the joy!

For our Christmas card this year, we did studio sessions with our puppies using various Christmas props to add some variety and to show off Charlie and Toto's new sweaters.  The puppies seemed to really enjoy the sessions!  The small expense of a few damaged props was worth it to get some cute images of our puppies.  It was hilarious watching them bark when they discovered the giant ball ornament on the studio floor.  If you'll look close at the second image below, you can see Toto's reflection on the ball ornament.  Our Christmas cards are on order and I don't want to ruin the element of surprise by showing the images used on the card, so most of the images below are not included in the card. We along with Charlie & Toto wish everyone a blessed Christmas and may you unleash the joy this holiday season!

To view the rest of the Christmas portraits of our cute little puppies, click here.

Don't make this mistake!

Never before having to potty train puppies, I did quite a bit of online research on potty training.  A friend gave me some advice on what worked for her puppy and even gave us some potty training pads to get us started.  When I laid the pads down for our Rat Terrier puppies, this was the response!  Charlie and Toto are still not fully potty trained but I thought it cute to share this response with my blog audience!  Enjoy! 

Charlie and Toto outside the jacuzzi tub

I've been wanting to do this session for a while, at least I thought about it every time I was in the jacuzzi tub and the dogs would come watch me.  Toto and Charlie were very reluctant to get near the tub since they had their last bath, so I had to trick them by giving them treats to get in position. I also wanted to wait until before sunset so that the lighting would be perfect coming through the thick glassed bathroom window which caused pretty catchlights in their eyes.  For some reason, Toto's left ear was limp which adds to his cuteness!!! Here are my adorable 5-month-old puppy dogs standing on the step outside the jacuzzi tub, looking inside at me in the tub.  Enjoy!

Three cute little dogs!

Honey Bun stayed with us for a few days and this was the second time she got to visit with our Rat Terrier puppies which are 5 months old.  This was the last day of Honey Bun's stay and when Charlie and Toto had finally accepted Honey Bun as part of the family, which meant Charlie wasn't barking at her anymore!  It was so cute to watch Toto chase after Honey Bun; I think he really liked her.  I wasn't quick enough to photograph Honey Bun lounging on our miniature couch, but was able to capture her peeking at our puppies while they napped on the couch (first image below).   Here are a few images I was able to capture of these three cute little dogs!  Enjoy!

Pool puppies!!!

Rat Terrier puppies are known to be good swimmers.  We thought we would try that out to see.  Toto, though he is smaller, shorter and stockier proved to be quite a good swimmer.  Charlie with his long lanky legs proved to be less of a swimmer.  Charlie thrashed about, splashing water every which way!  The first three images below show Toto's superb swimming skills and the remaining four, well... Charlie's not-so-great swimming skills.

Charlie tackles Toto

Charlie and Toto are such active little puppies!  Charlie is the affectionate one of the two pups.  His image is the first one below.  They are not an easy photo subject as they are constantly on the move!  When it gets really hot as it has been they will find shade to play in, as you can see by the last image when they are both chewing on a stick underneath our car.

 

They are so entertaining when they get to playing with each other like this tackle image below where Charlie jumps on top of Toto.