Puppying is Hard Work

July 26, 2020

The first night we had Lily, she went to be at about 10. She got up at 2, 4, and then was ready to be up for the day around 630. Each time I took her out and she did her business and we came back in. She cried after the 2 a.m. bathroom trip because she was under the assumption that peeing would be followed by playing. She was mistaken. After about three minutes of whining, she went to sleep again. No whining about playing at 4.

Last night she went to be around 10. She got up at 1230 and 4. Each time she went back to sleep after making sure I was still in the room with her. No whining.

My sleep routine is usually go to bed, maybe get up once to go to the bathroom (inside, hardly ever do I go outside to go to the bathroom). And the rest of the time I sleep. Puppying is an adjustment for me. It's the first time in many years I have had a puppy. In fact it has been nearly 20 years since I had a puppy.

That said, puppying is hard for Lily, too. It's the first time she's done this - ever. The adjustment from being on a farm with a lot of other puppies and living outside in a dog shelter run thing to living inside with new noises and sounds has to be exhausting. She naps a lot - which is good for both of us. She is napping right now.

She had been napping in the hallway on a rug. Each day we wash the rugs because she has a bit of a flea problem. Today I put a rug down and she immediately peed on it. I didn't even see her do it, but the wet circle looked suspiciously like a pee circle. After a brief investigation, I determined it WAS a pee circle. I asked Lily why she did that since we had just been outside, but she pled the fifth and did not respond.

So I put it by the washing machine to was after the load that is washing is washed.

Now she's sleeping under my chair with her head on my foot.

Puppying is exhausting. But totally worth it.

~ Michelle