Bailey's Progress Report

Bailey has had another super busy week! On top of our trip home, we had our first house guests that were not family. Our friends Thomas and Kaity stayed with us one night on their way to New York. They had their little baby with them and Bailey just loves him! This is the same baby she met while we were in Raleigh. He is so precious and has the cutest smile. She's really good with him, she just licks him a LOT! We also have to watch her tail. She wags it a LOT when she's excited. It's big, he's small. Not a good combo. He's just the right height so that it will hit him in the face if we're not careful. 

We were practicing "stay" here. She wanted to turn around and lick Rick so bad. Nice distraction. Haha.

Thursday morning before we left for work. We were playing with Bailey and her toy. Rick thought it was just hilarious. Every time she would run back in the living room he would laugh so hard. Too cute!

Potty Training

While Bailey doesn't have accidents like she used to, she still has them when she's in a new place or around new people. It's like if she's playing with someone new, she doesn't want to stop long enough to go outside, so she just goes where she is. It's frustrating, but we're trying to be patient. She still holds it while we're at work, so at least we have that going for us. She definitely knows she's not supposed to go inside. We thought she just didn't want to go on hard floors and that's why she held it all day while we were at work. Well, she had some accidents on hard floors while we were in Raleigh, so that isn't it. Also, one day last week when we got home...we found Bailey sitting on the stairs. She had pushed our crate out of the way (that's what blocks her from getting upstairs) and gotten to carpeted areas of the house. We searched everywhere for destroyed items and pee. No potty! I was excited about this. However...another item fell victim to her jaws :-/. 

Luckily, Josh doesn't love his Rainbows as much as I love mine.

Training

Bailey is doing great in this area! She is doing WAY better with "play dead". She just gets bored. After she has done it 3 or so times...she's completely over it. We just need to work on speed and we'll be good to go! Bailey graduated from her puppy class this week! We were a little worried because she was set to graduate during the Thursday graduation (since Monday was the 4th). We knew there would be new puppies there and we didn't want them to distract her. When we got there, there were only 2 other puppies! I was surprised since it was supposed to be a graduation for both classes! One of them was Brutus, the Bull Terrier in our class. The other was another Bull Terrier. Bailey was completely fine! She got an excellent on everything! In order to get an excellent, she had to complete each task the first time she was asked. We were not allowed to tell her to do anything more than once. She wasn't allowed to break during her stays or anything like that. She was the only puppy that did this! We were so very proud of her. After everyone graduated, we let the puppies run around and play for a while. I was so happy for her. She has been dying to play with Brutus during every class. Haha. 

 Straight E's!

Haha, yes. I'm that mom.

When we work on "heel" in class, we walk the length of the shopping center our training class is located in. There's a nail salon in the area. While our dogs were sitting (they have to automatically sit when we stop) one of the employees ran out with a huge stuffed dog (really huge, if it was a real dog, it would weigh about 200lbs) and said "my dog sit too!" it was hilarious. Our trainer's mom owns a pet shop beside where we train. She said a while back called the pet shop saying "Your kitties escape! Your kitties escape!". She told him not to touch them. She went down to the nail salon and some raccoons had broken in! Haha. I thought this was so hilarious!