Sunday, October 17, 2010

More about Kaylah

  • Preliminary evidence indicates that Kaylah may be housebroken (yay!); she hasn't had any accidents in our house so far. We've been letting her run around freely inside our house with our other dogs. She woke up this morning with our other dogs around 7am and went out to pee with them.
  • She is generally calm and quite polite. She has not chewed on anything in our home.
  • Kaylah was unfazed when we vacuumed the house.
  • I recommend that Kaylah not go to a family with small caged mammals, because she is very prey-driven. This is based on how interested she is in chasing squirrels and rabbits in our neighborhood. We'll still have to see about cats.
  • I took her for two walks this morning with two different anti-pull tools (Gentle Leader headcollar, and Easy Walk chest harness), and she did well with both.
  • Although Kaylah heartily gobbled down her dinner last night, she didn't eat much for breakfast, and it was hard to get her to eat the 16 herbal pills she's supposed to have to help her ears. She spat them out on our carpet along with some of her kibbles. She licking peanut butter when I gave her some, so we tried hiding the pills in peanut butter, but she spat them out. We ended up putting them in the back of her mouth a couple at a time and trying to get her to swallow them, and she gave quite the struggle.
  • Later in the morning, she let me use scissors to cut some crusty hair off her underside where she pees. We should keep that area trimmed.
  • She is very calm indoors and curls up on the rug when we're not paying attention to her. Very cute. And she's a real cuddle-bug. She soaks in the love when we scratch the side of her head, leaning in and looking oh-so-happy.

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