Bailey has had a pretty eventful week. Last weekend, when we had people over to help us with the house, everyone was SO busy! There was stuff all over her play areas, her toys were getting lost, Mommy and Daddy were putting things away, moving, going to Lowe's and feeding people when they should have been playing with her ALL weekend. She was not happy about this. She tried to hide a paintbrush so the painting would stop and she would be allowed back in the State Room. She tried to eat the garden so Mommy would throw her basketball for her instead of planting tomatoes...and worse of all...she peed on the floor...A few times...Right in front of me. I'm pretty sure it was because she wasn't happy about not getting all of our attention over the weekend. Each time we were downstairs, no more than 20 feet from the door she usually waits to go out at. We had also come in from outside. Nope...I was not a happy Mommy. Since then she has gotten back to her normal self, with one accident this week. She's still holding it while we're at work. We recently (yesterday) started freezing her water so she can lick on ice throughout the day. I don't know why didn't start this a lot sooner. Before, we couldn't give her too much water or she would pee several times during the day. No matter how much we gave her, she drank most of it up before we even left the house, so she didn't have water with her lunch anyway. This way, she can just lick on it when she's thirsty. She seems to enjoy it too.
Last week we noticed just a few days after her bath, Bailey started to smell again. This isn't normal. She usually doesn't start to stink until it's almost time for her next bath. She wasn't acting any different, she just smelled different. When I washed her, I found the problem. She had earmites. Since she's been to many new places and met many new dogs recently, I don't know the source. I gave her ears a good cleaning and picked up some treatment. I started treating her ears Saturday and they're SO much better. Everything seems to be cleared up, but I'll treat them at least once more to be sure. We also found a flea on her. When I found it, I looked over her thoroughly and I didn't find any more (or eggs). She has been itching on and off since we got her. It's been hard to troubleshoot because things around her are constantly changing, especially her environment. Things are getting more regular now, so hopefully we'll figure out what's going on soon. I think we'll start with her shampoo.
So...on top of having to share attention with humans, getting ear mites and having me pour stuff in her ears and clean the gunk out on a regular basis, she's also having her teeth brushed a lot more often. She doesn't seem to hate this anymore, she just tries to chew on her toothbrush. I want her to get used to this before her permanent teeth come in and it becomes an issue. Speaking of her teeth...she's teething majorly now! I can literally tell a difference in her front teeth like day to day!
Bailey is doing well in her puppy class. We continued to work on heel this week. She's doing SO much better with that. We worked on sit, down and stay. She did really well with all of these. She got really excited after we praised her one time and she peed on the floor. It was SO embarrassing. None of the other puppies are her size, so if they pee on the floor it's just a little bit. When Bailey pees, it's like a river! Jenna had us line up and each puppy took turns weaving in and out of the other puppies. This is the only part Bailey struggled with. She wanted to play with every puppy that walked by. We hope to take her to a park or something this weekend so we can practice on having her sit and stay when dogs are walking by. I can't wait to see how she does in next week's class.
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