Coco and Sadie, Days 2 and 3

Sadie has finally started to realize that her mommy and daddy are gone. She's going through a bit of withdrawal and has started to miss them. It was to be expected that she'd get a little down once she realized she wouldn't see them again soon.

Sadie hasn't wanted to play with Coco at all and hasn't really wanted to eat unless fed by hand. She wouldn't touch her own food at all but would at least eat Coco's food if hand fed. She's been getting her past couple of meals fed by hand so she's at least eating. She seems to really enjoy Coco's food and has started to get used to chewing it (since it's looks like it is harder kibble than she is used to eating.)

On Day 2 we gave Sadie a Greenie treat, which is basically a hard bone which helps promote teeth cleaning and is edible. Sadie took a long time to finish eating it but she really seemed to enjoy it. We gave her the same treat on day 3 and she ate it faster but still couldn't compete with the speed Coco ate hers. Sadie may eventually out eat Coco in speed but so far Coco has the upper hand. We're trying to promote more eating of harder foods for Sadie since she looks like she has difficulties eating hard foods (even going so far as to not want to eat a raw carrot.)

Ming and I really need to work with Sadie in order to keep her spirits up. We've given her lots of extra attention (hopefully not making Coco jealous) in order to give Sadie as much normality as possible. We have even started to teach Sadie some new tricks (I'll elaborate more about it once Sadie has the tricks down pat.)

Ming and I have established ourselves as leaders of the house. Initially Sadie tried to test how far she could push us (by ignoring commands, etc.) and we didn't let her get away with it. She's now accepted that when we say she can't do something or go somewhere, that she needs to live by those rules.

Sadly Sadie had an accident on Day 2. She decided that the carpet was a perfect place for her to do a poopie. O.o I hope this will be her only accident the entire time we've got her but we're going to take extra precautions now so that she knows where is an acceptable place for her to do her pee and poop.