Coco and Sadie Day 7

Sadie continues to be a challenge. She has now proven she can walk and pee simultaneously while in the house. Yesterday she pee'ed on the floor on the way to the designated pee area! O.o You can see the dribble marks from where the largest puddle is to where the designated pee area is. *sigh* Apparently she decided that walking and peeing isn't so hard after all.

Sadie is quite the contradiction. Sometimes she is very well behaved and other times she is positively obstinate. Sometimes she does her pee and poop exactly as we intend her to do and eats without much prompting. Other times she'll positively refuse to pee or poop and won't touch her food and/or tries to stare you down into cowering and giving her some wet food. She obviously has not learned yet that she isn't the "king" in this household and that she can't get her way; she needs to live by the rules we set. Sometimes Sadie will refuse to eat her kibble except for a little nibble and looks up at us expecting us to give in and shower her with wet food. We won't give in though and she's going to learn that if she doesn't want dry food, then she won't get anything. I find it very interesting that sometimes she can be an angel and be well-behaved and other times she's very ... trying.

The best we can do is continue to be firm and hope she starts learning that you catch more flies with honey than you do with .... well however the saying goes. :) If she behaves then she gets more play time with Coco and more attention from us. If she doesn't behave she gets more crate training time and doesn't get showered with any affection.

When Coco and Sadie play they play very rough. I think it's good exercise for the two of them; it works out the extra energy they have as well as keeps their spirits up. We have now only let the two of them play together in the pen. Confining their play area keeps them safe and keeps them from running into cords or furniture. We've also found that their rough play has led to our rug getting a few battle scars. :( They've played so roughly that a few woven strands of the rug have started to come undone. Yes, best to put the two in a pen and away from carpet so that we can preserve our carpet but still let them have fun together.