Bringing home baby!

[hannahbird]

Marceline will be coming home sometime this week! What should I do on the first day? Should I show her every room in the house and then set her rest in her cage? How can I bring her home and not upset her? Im so excited!!!!!!!

[Irie5447]

I am no expert but I recently brought my baby CAG home about three weeks ago and was exactly in your shoes. This is such an exciting, stressful, joyous time and I think most people get overwhelmed because they want every single little thing to go right and work out perfect and it just stresses people out. I think the best advice that worked for me was just be calm and try to relax. I brought my baby home and held him and talked to him for a very short time and then put him in his cage for a while. I have 3 Labrador retrievers, 2 cats and a Quaker parrot and really wanted him to be in his cage where he could feel safe and just take in the excitement of all my other animals running around and trying to sniff him and figure out what I just brought home. I sat near his cage and tried to reassure him and talk to him to get him used to my voice and let him know he is OK. After a few hours I put the dogs outside and brought him out of the cage and showed him around.

 

Everything worked out great and he is doing awesome around everyone. He is used to all the dogs and the barking and the cats walking near his cage and has really settled in great. Everything will work out great for you and just remember to just take a deep breath when you get overwhelmed and everything will be fine. This is is time to be excited and full of joy, not stressed out. LOL

[JeffNOK]

So what happened? How is your baby? I 'm bringing home my baby soon and would love to hear from your experience.