As crazy as Monday was with feeling of craziness, yesterday was the opposite. I wrote a check for the deposit on my kitchen renovation, I adopted Carli, a 4 y/o 8.5 pound sweetheart. To top the day off I had a great bike ride with the Nashville Slow Ride group and may have identified a partner who is interested in doing longer day rides on the Natchez Trace.
The choice of Carli was pretty obvious from the beginning. She was much more interested in people than Dobie was. She was eager to be held and not fearful of Brady. It was a fun family outing – getting the dog, the trip to Petco and getting training tips from my son. We worked on enticing her into her kennel and that went pretty smoothly. I put her into the kennel when I went to do my bike ride. She went in easily. I was curious to see what the would be like when I got home. When I opened the door, she came jumping off of the sofa. There are 2 options – she is Houdini and figured out how to get out or I did not get the door latched completely. I am betting on the latter. I found no surprises.
I was so exhausted at end of day that I decided to let her choose her sleeping place. She chose the bed. I put a soft blanket on top which she liked for a while and then she found her way under the covers. I am going to have her sleep in her kennel tonight as I did not wake up feeling all that rested.
We had a very quiet day. She is not really interested in taking actual walks. She goes outside and pees right away and then plants her legs and does not want to move. I found stool on the rug twice today – unobserved so we will have to work on taking longer walks without me having to drag her.
She is eating well. She brings a her food to the adjacent carpet where she drops it and eats some of it. In observing her today I realized she is picking out the food that she likes. They gave me the food that she was eating and advised to mix it with whatever food I wanted her to eat moving forward. I picked a salmon and sweet potato formula and she apparently prefers the new food. When she puts the food not he carpet, she picks out the new food to eat it first.
She is going to need to learn manners when I eat. She is very interested in my food. She also has some interested “digging” activity indoors. All in all, I think all is going well with us getting used to each other. No regrets.
Tamara Unleashed 