Everything is falling into place

She hasn't eaten any remotes for 1-2 weeks now. She developed what we thought was Separation Anxiety last week. By the time Friday morning came around she tried to eat her way out of the crate. So then we left her uncrated so she wouldn't hurt herself, fully expecting to be at Home Depot this past weekend to fix damage. It's 3 days later of no crate and nothing is chewed on! Nothing is even moved around! Currently our Apt could be condemned with all the clutter. My project this week after work. There's zillions of fun non doggy allowed stuff for Sunshine to get into. Very tempting for a pup.

We were gone all day yesterday and my Dad said he could come watch the football game at our Apt so he could walk the pups at halftime. I don't trust Sunshine outside of the crate for longer than 6 hours for no accidents. She still gets crated during the night. Dad came over and Rainy did her usual "I never thought I would see you again" frenzy at the door. Sunshine barked at Grandpa, then started weaving back and forth. She wanted so badly to go say hello, but was so nervous. She settled for a quick sniff on his head while he was bent over bear hugging/wrestling Crazy Rainy. Sunshine stayed out in the living room while we were showing Grandpa how to work the tv, etc. Normally she would have already retreated to the bedroom safe place.

So we show him how/where to take them for a walk, tell him that if he sees any strangers within the Apt to turn around and just go the other way with Sunshine until she get to her safe distance then let her watch them. (I really must be such a PIA about my dogs ) Plus not to worry if Rainy refuses to pee since she will try to make him walk all over creation to find just the right spot. We gave milkbones and off we went.

When we got back we got report that Sunshine was the only one who peed on their potty walk. What a good super pupper! No potty accidents at all! Plus Sunshine had TWO crazy zoomie fits. One where she ran into the living room jumped on the couch, nipped at Grandpa, then jumped over the back of the sofa, grabbed a toy and ran back into the bedroom. I'm assuming she didn't make contact with her teeth, I was too shocked to ask about that. Plus when Grandpa left she ran up to him for a pet! My jaw felt it was stuck open last night!

She really is starting to become one of the family! I suppose she figures that family members don't stay in crates? Either that or the big bed is so much comfier! I forgot my cell phone this morning so had to go back in after I left. Sunshine was just laying on the big bed eating her milkbone, getting cookie crumbs all over my side. I'm not 100% happy with her being uncrated. I don't trust her not to bite the Apt people if they have to come in. She does bark at all guests but if she's not told by us that it's ok.... well you just never know! Oh well it's working out now!

Something strange is going on with Sunshine...

Yesterday morning she tried to eat her way out of the crate. Did a pretty good job on those metal bars. So we left her loose for the 2nd half of the day and she didn't get into anything. Then we left her loose today while we were gone for 3.5 hours and she didn't didn't get into anything, or have any potty accidents. Maybe she's just trying to tell us she's tired of that crate and finally ready to be a full member of the family? It's so exciting!

Tomorrow Chris and I will be gone all day, my Dad is going to come watch the football game down here so he can walk the pups during 1/2 time.  Hopefully they will behave for him and Sunshine won't be too freaked out. Out of all the 'strangers' in the world she knows him the best since we lived with him in the mountains for a week.  Meanwhile Rainy is practicing her pitiful looks to get Grandpa to feed her endless cookies.His own dogs are heathens so these pups always seem like angels!


Sunshine 1/2 Roaching last night while the pups and Mom were in bed


Sunshine's nighttime crate (The only one she still likes) Not many pups get a layer of memory foam in those crates.

Happy Pumpkin day!

Back to crating at night!

It's obvious Sunshine has not yet drawn the conclusion that the bedroom is a big crate since I was cleaning up more pee at 5am this morning.  Rainy is also being a PIA! Not sleeping through the night and whining to go on a potty walk at 2-4am.  I have a feeling it's because they haven't been getting any exercise. Bad puppy parents! Tonight I am taking the pups on a 2 mile walk while Chris stays home and sets up another crate for the bedroom again. I hate crating Sunshine at night since her moving around in there wakes us up. If we crate her in another room she cries and I can't really blame her for that! I wouldn't want to sleep alone either.  Such is life! Some day this dog will be potty trained! If Rainy starts whining tonight she is getting the squirt bottle. Mommy needs sleep.

Onto the cute pictures

For some reason I think they may be too tired to walk?


Sunshine stretched out like she's done this all her life


Getting up is hard!


Silly pic of Rainy


Even sillier one! :)


They sure do love the bed


We got a new memory foam topper for the mattress, and I think they like it! This was 2.5 hours past normal potty walk time and 2 hours past suppertime! No one even moved when Dad got home...

Sunshine... the master of the roller coaster!

That darn pup sure knows how to toy with our emotions! After eating 3 remotes (I swear every Verizon rep will know me soon) Sunshine then moves into good cute little cuddler mode. She took such good care of us while we were sick. Then I was all excited on Saturday because she walked up to the front door and whacked the handle with her nose. How much more clear can she get? So we race outside and pee like good pups. Then Sunday morning at 2:30 AM the little brat is peeing on her dogbed!!!!!!!! Of course not on the bed that I had wrapped in trashbags... I wake up yelling, Chris starts yelling at me since I'm yelling at 2am, we could have been a comedy act.

Sunday Rainy and I went in search of a new dogpark in PA. We found it but there is only a 4 ft fence which is not going to work for Miss Sunshine the leaper. Parents pups came to play which caused our first walk of shame ever! Their 2 dogs couldn't behave and started playing too roughly with some other pups which set their 3rd dog off since she took the play seriously. I was able to call Rainy over to me before anything happened, then I was able to grab Miss Belle (The fun police) meanwhile some lady is screaming "Oh God No" over and over again. Yeah lady like that is helping anything! LOL They weren't even fighting once I had a hold of Belle it was just a matter of lack of recall from the other 2 dogs who wanted to keep playing.

 After that we all decided to leave, 5 minutes after we got there. Yup everyone in the small dog park knew we were doing the walk of shame. It was not MY perfect pups fault! :)

 Makes me wonder how dogs see each other though. Belle (Parents insecure nervous alpha) will go after any strange dog who escalates the intensity of play. It's her way of protecting her pack. She never has done that to Rainy or Sunshine though... Which makes me wonder if she somehow knew they were family instead of some strange dog she was meeting? Definitely gives you stuff to ponder.

Our new problem is that Sunshine seems to have gotten used to us being sick and home fore the past 2 weeks (Chris was in bed the first week and me the second) When Chris came home on lunch today Sunshine had pooped/peed all over her crate! Hello Separation anxiety 101! I had hope we missed that with her since she has so many other issues. My solution instead of freaking out and worrying about it, is to go out to dinner tonight so she can have some more quality crate time. LOL See I'm even getting better!

Greyhounds have big teeth!

Always have to learn stuff the hard way, don't we?

We were warned before we brought Sunshine home that she has a thing for pillows, down feathered things, and remotes.  She hasn't shown any interest in chewing on any of these until Sunday. She destroyed a remote! The pups haven't been getting enough exercise with the weather and us all being sick, so we shrugged it off. Took them to the dog park on Monday night and ran them around until they were exhausted.

I usually only muzzle Rainy when they run since Rainy is the once that gets nippy with whoever she runs with.  Sunshine likes to grab the balls and run around with them so I leave her un muzzled. Sunshine got a bit over excited, jumped up, and bit my arm! Hard. I had to unlayer to make sure she didn't break skin. I just have a lovely bruise.  So no more being unmuzzled for her. Darn little puppy.

Fast forward to Wednesday... I went to take a shower and remote #2 was killed. So I called Verizon again and ordered 2 more remotes so we would have an extra an an hour later I went to pee and remote #3 was killed!! in less than 3 minutes! Quick little chomper. Then I was in bed with the laptop, Sunshine jumped up and I reached out to pet her. She grabbed the mouse and made a run for it. She needs to start chewing on acceptable things before I get the duct tape out. 

Good news is that I had to go to Concord pet today and I took both pups with me. Sunshine's first trip to a pet store since we got her and she coped better than I expected. There was shaking, tail to the belly, etc but no fear pottying! Progress is wonderful.