The relationships between Rusty and The 3 Old Maids are finally started to equalize. Daisy actually wagged her tail and didn’t growl. Lacy played a little bit, and Lily ignored him. The hope is we can eventually get him to sleep in the crate with Lacy, but she has absolutely NO tolerance for his barking, so the jury is still WAY out on that one.

He is typically goofy and shows very little common sense, but in people years he’s about 3, and there aren’t many 3 year olds with any sort of sense at all, let alone common sense.

He yodels. Loud. All I have to do it leave him at the bottom of the stairs by closing the gate, and the head goes back and he starts channeling Jimmie Rodgers. If I could get him to do it on command, and not just when he’s deeply disappointed,I’d have a winner of a YouTube video, because he’s so stinkin’CUTE when he does it! However, it irritates the 3 Old Maids deeply.

He is sleeping with us. I know, save the lecture. We sleep better, he sleeps better, and he’s pretty good at staying down at the foot of the bed. Tho I did wake up a little when he decided to share the pillow and drooled in my ear. Terry’s the only one allowed to do that, so Rusty went back to the foot of the bed. He likes his dog bed, when it’s got toys and he can see me. He’s even ok with the crate, as long as the door is open and he can come and go at will.

He can definitely use the pet door, but only coming in. Apparently going out is not in his bag of tricks yet. And he’s stellar with the pee pads! Now to get him to bark when he needs to go out. Not sure how to go about that yet. The 3 Old Maids don’t bark, they just hold it until I put them out every couple of hours. Yes,we have a pet door, but the cats need to stay in and they totally know about the pet door, so it stays closed unless we’re going somewhere for a few hours,then the cats are locked in the gameroom and the dogs can go outside on their own.

Anyway, The adventures of having a puppy are…small and sweet.

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