Documentation

August 8, 2020

Just an update to document Lily's progress in week two.

1. She sleeps through the night. She goes to sleep in her kennel around 7:30 p.m., and then I take her out when I go to bed around 1030. After that she sleeps until at least 6 a.m., but this morning slept in until 7:15 a.m. 

2. She has gone from completely wolfing down every bitlet of her food to now leaving a little bit or wandering off half way through a meal. I think she used to have to fight the other 12 puppies in her litter and she is finally confident that Leslie isn't going to come and try to swap some of the food from the bowl. 

3. "Lily" and "Leslie" are kind of close to the same thing. This will likely get me in trouble at different times.

4. We are finally learning what her bites mean. If we stick to the routine, we can avoid them until bedtime. At bedtime the bites happen as Lily's way of telling us to put her to bed (NOT as her way of telling us to put her to sleep!). Except Lily doesn't like going to bed. Biting is her crankiness, but then se gets sad when she has to go to bed.

5. She loves toys. Usually we play with the doughnut in the morning and then the little duck, the wubba, and some other toy mid-day. We play with a treat / chew toy from Sarah Winslow and her family in the evening. Outside she has an old football that was left at the house by the previous owners, a tennis ball, a plush ball from Betty, and a rope toy. And sticks. And rocks. And bugs. And dead snakes.

She knows a lot of commands - sit, stay, down, get a drink, do your business. She doesn't follow them 100% of the time, but for a puppy who isn't three months old yet, she does pretty great.

Most of her daily naps are under my chair / my desk. We did kennel naps yesterday and that went great, though she was more resistant to her kennel at bedtime for the night than usual.

She is a great puppy.

Michelle.