02/14/05
We have adopted Mars and he is absolutely wonderful!  We love him so much > that we couldn’t imagine our life without him.  Our vet says he is in perfect health and we think he is the “perfect puppy” too!  He comes when he’s called, he can sit, leave it, and tell us when he has to go out (most of the time). He sleeps through the night, he knows “bed” is his crate and he seems to like being in there when we are not able to keep an eye on him.  When we walk with him on a leash he walks behind us and leaves the leash loose.  He’s lovable and fun and way more than we had hoped for in a puppy - all we were going for from his picture was “cute”!  So happy that we were able to adopt him!

03/07/05
Hi All-- This is very exciting!  We adopted Mars - kept the name because we couldn’t agree on one, and anyway, “Men are from mars”.  The funny thing is that my husband has a pair of Marvin the Martian slippers and Mars won’t leave them alone no matter where we “hide” them he finds them.   He is huge, at 13 weeks he weighed 30 lbs. and today is his next vet visit, my guess is he’ll weigh in at about 40 lbs, he has grown a lot since then.   I am amazed at how obedient he is, didn’t expect that from his Mal side, but he did come to us with some basic training, one night right after we got him my husband said it’s time for bed, we both went off to get ready and then we couldn’t find Mars anywhere.  After looking everywhere else in the house we finally found him in his crate, we figured whoever trained him called it a “bed”.  He seems to be a very smart boy!  He’s house trained and knows sit, come, outside and leash.  He is very cuddly and lovable and the only thing we are seriously working on now is biting, if he doesn’t get his way he tends to grab our hand with his mouth, not really a “bite” just a gesture of control, got any good ideas on how to stop this behavior?