3/12/03

So, about sending our puppy to puppy boot camp until she’s a little older. No, not really but damn is she hyper in the morning. I don’t generally wake up until noon, I mean really wake up and function fully. It’s best not to ask me questions before noon, it’s also best that I don’t walk around much before noon. 🙂 That said, Sara forgets alllll her manners in the morning. Hubby spent a good ten minutes this morning just standing in front of her crate telling her to “Sit” and “Wait” so he could open the door to her crate. When she finally behaves properly to be let out she goes completely wacko, jumps up on my nice work pants and won’t listen. *sigh* I’ve given up on coming to work without hair on my pants. I’ve also given up on trying to walk unless she’s eating, she can’t stand it and has to be underfoot, she’s already tripped me and caused me to fall flat on my face once. She’s great in the evening because she’s getting sleepy, when you walk into the room instead of bouncing off the walls she looks up at you like “huh? sleepy”.

I’m trying to get her to learn to lay down. It’s not working as fast as sit though. She’s not getting it yet but she will eventually. It’s supposed to be warm tonight so we might take her out on the trail behind our house for a walk. This weekend we’re going to take her to meet our old landlord. They have a golden retreiver and a yellow lab. They take rescued goldens from Yankee Golden Retreiver Rescue. We haven’t met their newest golden yet. We’re also going to stop by the new Petsmart that just opened. It’ll be her first trip out somewhere. I fear her pissing in the car or something but we’ll see how it goes. I’ll probably make her sit in the plastic bottom of one of those cat carriers with a towel like we did when we brought her home, only this time she can sit in the back seat and not on my lap. 🙂 We’ve got one of those harness/seatbelt things, those rock, we used one once when we took the sister in laws dog hiking. I like them b/c if you get in an accident it keeps the dog in place and not in the floor or into the back of the drivers seat. If you think about it, a full grown golden retreiver is heavy. You don’t want that flying into the back of your seat if you get in an accident. Safer for all. We’re hoping though, to eventually have a car big enough to house her crate when we go on trips. Some kind of wagon or something. I was trying to picture a golden retreiver and all our luggage and stuff for a week long trip to oklahoma in the accent and that didn’t leave me with pretty thoughts.

Ah well, I should go, I have a lot of work to do believe it or not. 🙂