29/2/04 - First Day Home Well we've had a great day. Trim cried until we reached the freeway (a whole 2 minutes) & then pretty much slept the rest of the way home. There was no sign of being carsickness whatsoever, so that was great. She met Zeus & Noah & behaved very appropriately. I was worried about Noah, but he sniffed her a couple of times & then rolled over on his back, then up again & play bowed with her. He really likes her. Zeus is interested but was far too happy to see me to care too much. Today I am hers!! We have played ball and she looks very proud carrying a tennis ball around the house. She also found a plastic bowl that she has claimed as hers & has been carrying it around. She has ignored the other dogs outside & followed me everywhere. A couple of my friends came over to see her & love her. She has been wiggling around them & licking them but always comes back, sniffs my feet, licks my toes & lays in between my feet. We went to school to pick up Chloe & she licked about 5 kids. Chloe is of course beside herself. I have been pretty firm b/c otherwise Trim will never get to rest. At the moment she is sound asleep in her crate. I hope today hasn't been too exhausting for her. I just love her!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/3/04 She has already worked out how to open our sliding screen door...just grabs the bottom with her teeth & pulls it open. She only does it if I go out without her. She has taken over our big brown dog bed inside & nurses in it. Everything I give her to play with, she carries it to the bed & plays with it. This morning I gave the boys some left over spagetti. She had already eaten inside, but saw them through the window & decided she wanted some of that. You'll never believe it but she picked up her plastic bowl & brought it to me!! She loves spagetti. I'm sure she has some retriever in her LOL. Every toy I throw, she just brings it back & hands it to me. She already knows ready set go & anticipates the throw. She slept from 10.30pm till 6.45 in her crate last night with only about 1-2 minutes wimpering. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3/3/04 Todays smart puppy stories: She will come to which ever fist I hold out, politely sit & eat food when I open my hand. That is how she had her lunch today. I just tried it again when Mike got home to show him & she remembered exactly what to do, first time, nearly 6 hours later. I started to teach her to sit this morning & tried BBQ chicken but she goes crazy for it, so I thought plain kibble was a better plan, & thought it's never to early to teach her to come to a hand...she caught on real quick. I was unpacking & found my little tunnel, so I put it in the backyard, squashed up. She just walked straight through it. Then when Chloe got home from school, Chloe was playing with the tunnel & bent it into a U-shape, again she just went from one end to another. While I obviously don't want to train her with it for quite some time, I'm going to leave it there, b/c she likes going through it. Her favorite sleeping spot is already beside my desk & she is still doing really well going into her crate without much/any fuss. Today she had another 6 visitors, which makes 14 all up in 2 1/2 days. She loves everyone, especially the kids. Tomorrow we're going to show her to Chloes class for Show & Tell. The teacher is a dog lover & sometimes brings her dog in for the day, so we had no trouble getting permission 4/3/04 We went to the vet today & got the worming tablets, she is 4.5 kilos & the vet said she's in perfect condition. I then had to go to the chemist, what a slow trip, nearly every person I passed had to stop & make a fuss of her, then to Show & Tell where she was very happy to patted but 16 kids in Chloe’s class, as well as the teachers. Today she's decided ZOOMING through the tunnel is fun & I'm not encouraging or rewarding it, she just really thinks it's fun. She has a little bowl for water but is determined to drink from the bucket & has mastered it on her hind legs. I also insisted on carrying her up the stairs from the backyard, but again, she thinks she knows better & has flown up them a few times before I could catch her. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5/3/04 Today was hot, so we all rested a lot. She was inside with me & her crate door was open. When she got tired, she just took herself off to bed. I left the door open & she came out an hour or so later. We are doing so well with "sit" that we tried "lay down" today...it took much longer, a whole 5 minutes instead of 2 (G). She has also discovered stuffed kongs...she had to do something while I was typing all this. She thinks they're pretty cool. |
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