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Pip update
We've survived the first few days with Pip, and I have to say that she fits in really well to the household. Amazingly well, as a matter of fact. After initially not being sure about Boone, she decided he was really, really okay, and Boone is completely, totally, over the moon about her. I had no idea that getting another dog would make him as happy as it has, but he already seems calmer. This is possibly because he spends hours a day playing with Pip, and it tires him out.
She remains calm and very lovey. She is also totally Bryan's new girlfriend; he watches TV at night and she snuggles with him and sleeps. And...she jumps. Everywhere. Up onto the beds, on the couch, sailing off the rock wall in the backyard because it takes too much time to find the steps down. She thinks the cats are uninteresting, even Greebo, which is good. The worst they get is a sniff and a "you fail to be interesting".
Greebo is also very happy that Pip has arrived, since it means he no longer gets his ears cleaned out five times a day. (Boone has an ear fetish.) Crate training is going well, the crying is now limited to a little bit after the lights go out at night. And it's extremely cute to see Boone and Pip lying side by side in the crate, both of them munching crate cookies.
We're going to have different training difficulties than we did with Boone, though. Puppy origami is surprisingly difficult with her, I haven't been able to use a treat to make her sit yet. (Puppy origami is the art of using yummy treats to get puppies to sit, stand, lie down, and occasionally bow; it's precursor training for sitting and lying down on command.) We're going to need to do some work to convince her that she does need to be walking on a loose leash.
But she's smart. Really smart, as far as I can tell. She's pretty much potty-trained at this point except for a few accidents and some marking, and she has already figured out that if she butters up the humans, she will get picked up, and being carried around is better than walking any day.
Princess Pip she is!
She remains calm and very lovey. She is also totally Bryan's new girlfriend; he watches TV at night and she snuggles with him and sleeps. And...she jumps. Everywhere. Up onto the beds, on the couch, sailing off the rock wall in the backyard because it takes too much time to find the steps down. She thinks the cats are uninteresting, even Greebo, which is good. The worst they get is a sniff and a "you fail to be interesting".
Greebo is also very happy that Pip has arrived, since it means he no longer gets his ears cleaned out five times a day. (Boone has an ear fetish.) Crate training is going well, the crying is now limited to a little bit after the lights go out at night. And it's extremely cute to see Boone and Pip lying side by side in the crate, both of them munching crate cookies.
We're going to have different training difficulties than we did with Boone, though. Puppy origami is surprisingly difficult with her, I haven't been able to use a treat to make her sit yet. (Puppy origami is the art of using yummy treats to get puppies to sit, stand, lie down, and occasionally bow; it's precursor training for sitting and lying down on command.) We're going to need to do some work to convince her that she does need to be walking on a loose leash.
But she's smart. Really smart, as far as I can tell. She's pretty much potty-trained at this point except for a few accidents and some marking, and she has already figured out that if she butters up the humans, she will get picked up, and being carried around is better than walking any day.
Princess Pip she is!
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That must be the dachshund in her--they're notoriously averse to training! Good luck with it, we haven't found a way to get our little guy to understand the importance of doing what we say :)
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