Saturday, April 25, 2009

Our other babies

The furry ones are doing well. Cole had his 4th puppy obedience class last night and it's making a world of difference! He'll now sit, lie down and 'watch me' which literally means he has a staring match with us. Last night we started working on him coming to us (ummmm... momma - a.k.a. me has been indulging him with the chase game so who knows if he'll ever learn the 'come' command. ;) )as well as staying. The staying one is very very important and I can't wait until he has that one down!

I am also happy to report we are having fewer accidents now. He has started learning to tell us (by disappearing and heading towards the door downstairs) that he has to go outside. He still has accidents of #1 way more frequently than momma would like but we are getting there. Hmmmm - only 3 months later. Haha. But he is a good puppy and I was thrilled to hear he was on his best behavior when he stayed with Ryan's parents when we went to St. Louis for several days. Whew! I was afraid he wouldn't be invited back!

Right now he is lying on his bed here in my office (which he likes to flip over and lay on the bed while it's upside down - who knows...) happily chewing his chewie. Aaaaahhhh - a few moments of blissful quietness to let me work on my blog!

The kitties are hanging in there as best they can. Cole doesn't understand why they don't want to play and he's very protective of mom and dad and usually shoos them away if they lay right where he wants to lie. We are working on that!

Here is little bud-bud enjoying the snow (yes his little back legs are up in the air because he was running crazy)!



And here he is being such a good puppy lying in the sun and Bell lying fairly close to him! There is hope!