Week 2

Hello all.

Today we have had Sally for 2 weeks and she has just had her 2nd injection so only another week to go before she can go outside properly. The injection has made her really sleepy so I am taking advantage of the quiet time to write this. It is impossible to do anything while she is awake as she is into everything.

She was weighed again at the vets and she is 9.6 kgs so she is doing really well - I can't measure her as she is fast asleep and I'm not going to disturb her for anything.

Sally is inquisitive about everthing and really brave, no sooner had she worked out how to get onto the sofa then she was climbing up the back of it to lie on the top so that she could see out of the window...

and drop down onto the window cill...

.... but then she had to be lifted off as she didn't know where to go next and we were afraid of her jumping onto the table and falling.

During the week she was sat on Neils' chair and jumped onto my knee (at least 2 feet away) with no warning whatsoever.

She has a mad 5 minutes every so often - at least twice a day when she just runs around the room and into the hallway like something not right and then collapses onto her bed or the sofa...

... and sleeps for a couple of hours.

This week we have noticed that Sally has found her tail and she wags it most of the time - especially when Neil comes in...

... they adore each other aawwww.

Sally loves to play with the door stop in the lounge - it is on a spring so when she hits it with her paw it springs back and often hits her in the face - at this she starts barking and biting at it.

She is still chewing everything she can get into her mouth - sometimes she is very crafty and will take a permitted chew stick somewhere, such as near the TV and then chew it and when she can see we are not watching her she will start to chew the TV stand - already there are marks on it. She does the same with our hands when we are holding chews - she will be quite happily chewing on the chew and then without warning she will bite our hands leading to us shouting out more in shock than pain.

... chewing my college bag before she was stopped.

On Wednesday Sally had a really 'mad do' - she lunged at me, pulled my hair, bit my ear and then my nose and the more I tried to fight her off the worse she got so I managed to pick her up and put her into the hallway on her own for 15 minutes - which served to calm her down for the rest of the day, thankfully, and she hasn't tried to do that to me again, but if she does I'll certainly try the hallway treatment again. My nose is still sore.

We have been taking Sally along the side of the house and into the garden on the lead to get her used to it before we hit the streets next week, but she is like a hoover picking everything up that she can - we have to watch her constantly for picking up stones. I bet she'll be hard work when we get her out on the street.

This week we have been visited by Neils' brother, John ...

.... who went away with a few scratches and bites, but he loves her anyway!!!

I should have got photos when he came round with Thelma (his wife) a few days after Sally came here but never thought - so come round again. We can't take her visiting until she is better housetrained.

Well she is still asleep yet - I suppose this means she is going to be wide awake in the middle of the night and howling for company - after she has been so good for the last few nights.

Watch this space ..........................