Sophies Here

She's been here for a week now and life has certainly changed. I bought her home on the train all the way from Bolton on a very cold Saturday afternoon. She slept most of the way home on my lap, then screamed in the car because she had to go in the pet carrier,(which she promptly crapped in!).

The first night she cried and screamed every two hours through the night in her puppy pen. By the next morning she had worked out how to climb out of the puppy pen and had slept on poppy's bed instead. After adapting the pen with lots of cardboard she just got very angry and spent a lot of the time screaming and shredding the cardboard. This carried on throughout the next night and I was getting very upset by the horrible noise. I was beginning to think we'd made a huge mistake in having a puppy.

I didn't really like her at this point but through the next two night she got a little better and was only waking up twice in the night, but she took a long time to settle back down and she was still being very angry with the cardboard barriers.

So in comes a medium crate and a soft round cat bed....................Instant change in her. No screaming, no getting angry with the fact she can't climb out. She just investigated her new and settled down for a sleep. I was amazed that she accepted the change so readily and now she is a completely different puppy. Happy to be in her crate for a while when we are in the room or if we go out she just goes to sleep.

She's great at night now and I don't even hear her is she gets out to wee. I now love my little Sophie.