Been a While!

Spider bites still hurt :p

It has been way too long since I last updated on Poochie's wellbeing!
I've been up in New York all weekend (Fri - Mon). I've been interning at Port Discovery Children's Museum in Baltimore, MD. I'm their design intern and have been busy coloring a children's book and making posters for their over the weekend "Eek, Squeak, and Boo" event. On top of that, my fall quarter of classes started this past week.

Anywho...

Poochie was without me for a full 4.5 days. She still ate and went potty, but during her meals and during the mornings of the first two days, she constantly went upstairs looking for me. While my parents were gone, she tore up a part of the crate cover, turned her bed/blanket upside down and peed a little. My mom spent the rest of the day washing Poochie's bedding. Again, Poochie went looking for me upstairs... she kept bolting at every sound, perhaps thinking it was me. She was apparently restless. That was all Friday and Saturday. While my parents were away for work on Saturday, she yanked in a part of the crate cover, but didn't tear it up. Poochie did much better for the rest of the weekend, since my parents were home on Sunday. This gave her a chance to bond with someone else, but apparently she's still not nearly as friendly towards my dad as she is towards me.

My dad's back to his jealous self, now that I'm back. At least Poochie now says hi to him when he comes home from work instead of coming to the door then scampering off. She's much more lively than ever!

She now follows me almost everywhere. During the last couple of days, she's fully (ok, well almost fully... like.. 98%) learned the Come command! She's beginning to walk a lot better on a loose leash. She's also starting to become a lap dog. If only she had shorter legs and didn't like to stick her butt on my chest and point it at my face.. Other dogs like a good rub on the head.. a nice scratch behind the ears... not Poochie. She likes the attention on the other end. Sigh.. at least it's somewhat cute...

She met my grandparents for the first time, yesterday. It was around the time that I would've taken her out for a brief potty break... so.... yeah.. she dribbled here and there during her own excitement of screaming at this pair of strangers. I shook a can at her and she shut up after that. Of course, she was frozen with fear... Then we took her outside and she barked at them a couple of times while they picked some veggies from our garden.

Enough for now.. I have homework to do.

Oh.. my.. god.. I finally chose a vet for her. She gets to see her doctor this Friday! Oh boy~... oh boy...

ps my friend took me to Woodstockwhile we were in NY and I missed Poochie more than I ever had before. There were dogs everywhere; I even saw a black/tan minpin pup!