Welcome to the Family, Hazel!

I am so excited to share some portraits of our newest fur baby addition, Hazel!  This sweet, adorable little doll joined our family on October 16, 2021.

As I mentioned when I posted about Sylas, the COVID-19 pandemic and my current work situation made it possible for us to adopt puppies into the family.  I knew that I wanted to experience watching two puppies grow up together again after raising Zoe and Lexi together so the plan had always been to add a second one shortly after Sylas joined us.

I thought it might take us a little while to find the right match for Sylas but Hazel was only the second puppy we introduced to him.  He has a 'strong personality' and I wanted to make sure that whoever we brought in would be a good fit with him.  I wanted a dog that wouldn't be bowled over by his strong willed ways, yet one who was laid back enough that he or she wouldn't be challenging him at every turn.  He absolutely thinks he is the center of the universe and I needed a dog that ultimately was willing to let him be.

We truly found the perfect dog for our family in Hazel!  She is an absolute little darling.  She loves to tease and play with her older siblings and she can definitely hold her own with them!  At the same time, nothing really phases her.  She is the epitome of the phrase 'rolls with the punches'!  She is by far one of the calmest and most well behaved puppies I have ever encountered, and she is a huge love bug - at least with me.  Admittedly, she is a bit of a mama's girl, but she is usually pretty content snuggled up in my lap or next to me when she's not playing. 

Again, I wasn't specifically intending to get a second Frenchie and was open to other options.  However the experience adopting Sylas was a good one so we decided to start along the same path.  Since the two dogs seemed to click instantly, we didn't have to look very hard to find our second puppy and ended up with another French Bulldog.

So please allow me to introduce you to our sweet darling little Hazel:

How could you not fall in love with that face?...

I mean seriously, how cute is she?...

I have been trying to work out if Hazel has food allergies so there are only a few things that she is gettting fed right now. One of them is a treat that it takes her FOREVER to chew up. I always joke that she looks like an old man gumming his food when she does it. I really need to get a video, but here is a photo of her working on one of her treats...

Mmmm. That treat was yummy!...

Yes, I am adorable and I know it!...

She was definitely easier to get to hold still for photos than Sylas! She was willing to sit still and let me back up from her enough to take a few shots...

Look at that cute little profile!...

Licking my lips just thinking about getting another one of those yummy treats...

Oh, hello up there...

Man, I just can't stop thinking about those treats...

I think this is my favorite photo of her from the bunch!...

I ended up leashing her hoping maybe I could get her to lay down or to get a different pose out of her but instead she just wanted to walk around and test the limits of how far she could reach so I just got a cute photo of her little bulldog butt instead!...

The rest of these photos were taken on a different day. I wanted to see if I could get more variety of photos of her so I let Ivy, Olive, and Sylas out at the same time. I was hoping to get more photos of her running around and playing and I did! (Stay tuned for a few photos of her and Sylas playing!). I was hoping to take these first thing in the morning but got a later start than I should have and the sun was already too high. The lighting in some of these is awful but what do you do?

Of course, here she stops half in and half out of the bright spot...

Just exploring...

I didn't realize her nose is the prefect little heart until looking through these photos!...

Just exploring her yard. She's still working on house training so she goes out on a leash. She hasn't had much freedom to check things out yet...

Those separated ears! Hazel actually does this all the time so I am surprised I didn't catch her doing it in more photos!...

More cute little Frenchie backside...

Let's Run!...

If you made it all the way through and you're still here, thank you for stopping by and looking at photos of our sweet little Hazel!

 

Michele Whitacre used to be a portrait photographer serving Phoenix, Arizona.  Now she just takes photos for fun when the mood strikes.
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