I Think I Have Lost My Mind!!
In the middle of conference planning I offered to foster...only foster a puppy until a raiser is available. This time of the year it is hard for us to find people to puppy raise since its a lot of work and during the holidays people don't seem to want to take on anything extra. So what did I do?? I brought home 9 week old Nona today. She is a black lab & golden cross...and just as cute as she can be...but boy does she have a set of lungs on her! I have not had a "puppy" in over 20 years and I feel like a new mother...worried that she might do this or I might do something wrong! She has already piddled in the house twice and pooped once. Thank goodness for wood laminated flooring!!! Got to love them. Teddy is taking it better than I thought he would although I don't think he likes the fact that she is using his crate...oh yeah...let me tell you about this crate training thing!!! You put the puppy in the crate for no more than 20 minutes at a time (except for night time) and you are to work the puppy's time up to about an hour or so. Well,today was Nona's first experience with a crate and she hated it! She cried, and barked and howled and.......ugg! I let her out after 20 minutes and played, ate dinner, got "HeartGuard" & advantage..and played some more...took little walks outside, ate leaves, went up and down the back stairs, followed Teddy, played with Teddy and conked out on the throw rug in the kitchen. I picked her up slowly and put her in the crate...she slept for about 20 minutes and was back up again. So we started most of the process over again...played, pooped (outside this time :) took little walks with Ted...and when we came back into the house she put herself in the crate I took her out and played with her some more....she put herself back into the crate and went to sleep!