Our first vet appointment

Fleas! Our poor baby has fleas. This explains all the itching, though I'm kind of baffled because she already had a flea treatment before we adopted her, and each treatment is supposed to last a month (and it's only been 2.5 weeks). So... what gives? We gave her another heartworm/flea pill, and we'll give her another bath today (perhaps we'll take pictures this time?), and we need to wash all of our linens and such. And hopefully that'll help.

Otherwise she seems to be the picture of health! She weighs just under 15 lbs and is about 11, maybe 12 weeks old (says the vet). We picked a birthday for her: April 8, 2012 (4/8/12). Hooray! Hard to believe that when she was born we were still living in Boston and hadn't even started packing yet. We got so lucky with her!

She's SO smart, by the way. She has mastered sit, like I said, but she's also pretty much mastered paw and down -- but only when the motivation is good enough, mind you. No treats, or pretend-treats-but-your-fist-is-really-empty? No tricks. But that's okay: she's still a baby, and as she gets older and has an attention span longer than a few seconds, she'll keep getting better and better at all these commands.

Well, the weather here is perfect today (72 and not a cloud in the sky!), so we're off to the beach. More beach pictures of Nyxa? Yes, please! Coming soon.

Sit! Stay!