Sooooo a bulky update on Poochie's progress.
- Well.. her spunky, silly personality is really starting to shine.
- She is extremely territorial of me, my parents, and our house. (We're working on that with little progress, so far)
- Still working on the loose leash walking, but she's very quick to learn with that. It's the lunging and barking at passersby that dirties up the pretty picture. Working on that, as well.
- She loves her Bobo more than ever. A few days ago, she started to just run around the house with her red Bobo. When she's bored and lazy, she chews on the tabby cat.
- Funny thing about the playfulness... she starts to do this the day after I post Poochie's story and a bit on her lack of interest in toys and playfulness on some Yahoo! forum thing. This seems to happen to me quite a lot.
- She has started to play around with the blanket in her crate more. She tugs at it and pulls on it to get it the way she wants it. Honestly, it never ever looks comfortable when she's done :/ I can't wait till she figures out how to just.. get under it and.. bury herself in lovable warmth.
- My dad makes it much much harder to train her since he's extremely, even 100% stubborn. I tell him to do things a certain way so as to keep it consistent and so we have a routine for her to adhere to and learn from.... but no.. Not going to get into that. My family has a history of high blood pressure... don't want that on my case.
- Poochie is still learning to "come". Scenario: I tell her to come so as to give her a treat. 1 time out of 5, she does around the corner, pops her head in... and from there she either goes all the way or turns back around and into her sanctuary of a crate. When she does go all the way... she stops a few feet from me.. sits down and expects ME to walk up to her with the treat. Yeah..... brat. Brat, brat, brat. She isn't such a brat if I say, "Outside!" Then, she'll run over, no.. HOPS over to me and sits all nice and pretty waiting for me to put the leash on her. Brat, brat, brat :)
- Cannot wait to take her to obedience training. Don't know where to take her though... Would a place like Petco/Petsmart be good enough for her? I donno... If I did go with either of them, I think I'd go with Petsmart. Their employees are much friendlier and better informed. Petco people are.. cooooold. Never have I ever been approached by an employee asking if I needed help. What store DOESN'T have that?? Petsmart: they don't leave you alone. Granted, I don't like it when they don't leave me alone, but... once or twice is better than none. At Petco, I never feel good... I never did feel good at any Petco I'd ever been to. Petsmart employees are always friendly and there seems to be an abundance of them.... Anyway, going off on a tangent here. Moving on~
- Poochie is starting to learn "Kennel" "go to your kennel". I store the term "kennel" from the video I recently posted. I'm sorry, the video is happy and the word just .. stuck. Anyway, I mean "kennel" is really easy considering she loves going into her crate. A lot of times, we have a lot of trouble getting her to come out.. I hope that's not a sign of anything bad, behaviorally. I really hope that she just genuinely want snuggle up in her blanket... Like I've already mentioned, our house isn't all that fun... I mean.. I hate walking, sitting, laying on our floors. Even our furniture isn't that great... I just want a used couch that sinks in and just.. hugs you. You know? Fabric, too. The leather couches are just not welcoming. Again.. moving on....
- Poochie is still extremely territorial, but she's gotten a whole lot better about barking at my parents. When the door opens and the alarm does the "beep, beep (door opened~)" sound, Poochie barks and runs over to the door to see what/who it is. As soon as she notices that it's one of us, she's fine and either stays and watches us/them or she runs back to her crate. Before, she used to scream, then scream the entire way to the door, then continue to scream even after seeing that it's only my parents. (WIth me, she always stopped as soon as she noticed it was me. Rather, if we had been home alone and I left to run an errand, then returned... she never made a sound at the beep, beep of the door).
- As calm and lazy as she is... she still has a good few number of moments where she unintentionally does something to make me laugh out-loud. There's this one thing she does, quite often... sometimes when I'm moving around the house and I'm walking towards her bed, she hops over to it and plops down.. and if I bend down to pet her, she rolls over to expose her belly and... this is when she overcalculates the size of her bed and roll right on out of her bed :). There was this other time, this past Sunday, where she... snorted SOMETHING.. we don't know.. must've been too much dust in that one spot near her bed.. BUT.. she started to have a sneezing fit and literally, literally sneezed about 13 times or more. Iiiiiii had quite the laughing fit that day. I laughed and laughed until I cried. Yes, until I teared up, but even until I literally started to cry. I can't remember the last time I laughed like that. I regretted that I didn't get any of it on camera. I did get a bit of camera action afterwards, when she went into her crate... She cringed a few times and spazzed out, about to sneeze again. She never did.. but almost! I want to show that clip.. but I'm kind of ashamed of the past two, extremely boring videos.. Don't want to torture you guys.
That's all for now. It's late. It's 6am. Way too late. :/ I wish I had slept...
