Our Grandpuppy Here to Stay With Us

This is a quick sketch of my youngest son's dog, Lola.  Travis brought her here to stay with us for awhile because of the long hours he's away from her.  He often works anywhere from 10 to 14 (sometimes more) hours not including driving time to and from work.  She's alone and just a pup and it was bothering my son feeling such guilt for her being without her pack for so long every day.  So we're keeping her since we're home all the time.

Hopefully, Travis and Neal (my middle son) will be able to move back to the area where puppy can return home and we be close enough to offer puppy sitting through the day.  As it is, it's an hour and 15 minutes one way between where they live and where we live making it difficult.

Lola was born a year ago January 8th.  She's a sweetheart of a dog full of energy as you would expect.  She loves people and tries so hard to play with other animals.  Her being a lab, she's kind of all over the place (bull in a china shop) when she gets excited so my son's cat and our little dog have a problem with her.  In time she'll settle and maybe once she has people around instead of being alone for long hours, that will help. 

This being the first day/night here with us, our dog, Miya, is not a happy camper.  She's insecure with us and clingy and quite bossy letting Lola know she's not welcome.........lol  Although Miya grew up with three other dogs and two cats, she's been the only child now for sometime (after the boys moving out and our losing three senior dogs the last couple of years).  It's going to be fun for a little while.......a little testy on the nerves, I'm sure.