Growing Up

Sophies now nearly 5 months old and she's definitely now part of the family. She's been doing very well on the potty training front and hasn't wee'd on the floor for about 3 weeks now. We've learnt to go to the back door to go out and wee but not to poo, she still prefers to do that in her big crate on the paper, which I dont mind as when we are both at work she has to use the paper even though she's only left for 3 hr stints, hopefully she will learnt to hold it for longer soon.

This evening she managed to lose her first baby tooth, which was quite scary as at the time we were having a nice chew on her bone and then she started to look like she was choking on something. We finally managed to get it out of her mouth and found it was one of her back molars. Think it might be time to introduce a toothbrush to her soon. 

At the weekend she went on her first geocaching mission and had a lovely long walk in the country. We've noticed that she is much calmed in the evenings if she's had a nice long walk, hopefully we can do that most days now the weather has improved and she now likes to go out.

I'm off to crufts on the 6th of march to see lots of lovely Italian Greyhounds and of course to do some shopping for the little weed who keeps on growing out of her coats, any excuse to spoil her.

We've also booked a summer holiday in Somerset in August with Haven holidays who welcome dogs at their holiday parks, so we are all going to the beach.

Off to the new puppy training class tomorrow night with a lovely lady who seems to understand small dogs, I hope Sophie will co-operate and listen to the commands and not just stand there looking cute!

Snow

Sophie had her first experience of the cold white fluffy stuff this morning, she spent a lot of the time looking out of the window watching the snowflakes, We let her out in the front garden and she bolted back in as soon as her feet touched the ground. She was a little more adventurous in the back garden with daddy. Bounced about in the quite deep snow for a dog who is only 9" tall. Had just enough time to get some photo's of her.