Winter With my Crazy Puppy!

Chloe is 7 months old now. Sometime in November she woke up and just decided to be good! (Not perfect, but almost) Honestly, it was peeing on the floor one day and then nothing since then. (Except when someone doesn't pay attention to her *sad face*)
As the weather gets worse and worse into winter, Chloe wants to spend more and more time outside! She's nuts. It's feezing and snowing and she's loving it!
Chloe is SO much bigger than when we got her! And she's gotten so much darker too! I need to upload some recent pictures on Facebook.
Since it's been SO cold and gross outside, we've started taking Chloe to doggy daycare. She loves it! Sometimes when we pick her up she looks so sad like she doesn't want to leave. Then she comes home and poops out. It's really cute!
Last week, Chloe got spayed. She's supposed to stay calm and resting for 7-10 days. I figured, MAYBE if I didn't give her the meds she got sent home with, it might hurt just enough to make her rest. NO WAY! She's all over the place like nothing even happened to her. Chasing kitties, trying to run out the door, and pulling on her leash. I guess it's great that she feels so good, but come on! Rest a little bit! Bad part: I think the meds that they gave her there messed up her tummy a little bit, or possible any food she might have eaten there. Poor puppy. She's not supposed to get her belly wet either. So what happens the day we take her home?! All the snow melts, the ground gets muddy, and it rains! At the end of December! Got to love Wisconsin.

Intermediate class starts next week. Hopefully she's grown up enough to handle it!

It's Nice Outside...

...and so all Chloe wants to do is go outside! Since the last post, I've trained her to ring a bell when she wants to go outside. It works mostly. Since she's learned, she hasn't had very many accidents. She rings it when she just wants to play though too... but at least she does SOMETHING now!
Chloe also plays much nicer with the kitties now. She doesn't bit them and trap them under her arm as much anymore, and sometimes the kitties even play back with her, batting her with their paws while she play-lunges as them! It's so cute!!
Chloe's bad habbits list is shrinking. She still jumps, but you can stop her sometimes. She likes to play-bite when she's playing with you, and it doesn't matter if it's your face, arm, leg, foot, whatever--and even though I know she doesn't mean to be mean, it still hurts sometimes! She likes to steal Andy's socks, but she doesn't eat them, she just carries them around and drops them where ever she feels like.
Last week, Chloe passed puppy class!! She still needs a little work before I want to take her to the next class though. She needs to be GREAT at her sit-stay, down, down-stay, come when called, drop it, and leave it before I take her to the next one. I don't want her to be behind. The class that I want to sign up for starts on Jan 11, so we have 2 months to get everything perfect (haha yeah right...)
She's a lot bigger than when we got her. At the vet last week she was 36 lbs! She said Chloe might only get up to 50 lbs! She'll be a small husky if she stays that small. Last week was her re-check for worms. Guess what?! She still has them plus another kind. So she has new medicine that you give 3 days in a row, then 3 days in a row in 3 weeks and then a re-check 6 weeks after that. The vet said that Chloe probably got it from herself so make sure to pick up her poop right after she does it. Don't you think that would be something nice to know the first time she had worms! I've never had to care for a dog before! The first med day, Chloe ate it just fine. It's runny so I mixed it with pumpkin. The next 2 days were terrible. She didn't want to eat it at all! The vet promised it tastes good. Hahaha! It'll be fun in 2 weeks when I have to do it again. I think I'm going to buy some canned wet dog food to mix it with for next time.

New Habbits

Chloe is still doing pretty good with potty training. She only has peeing accidents inside now. We have a fan for her crate. I think she likes it. She's doing really well on her new food we started on the 9th.

She is now jumping on the couches and trying to play with the blanket and pillows... it's super frustrating and I don't know how to make her stop. She didn't go on the furniture the first few weeks, so I'm not ever sure why she started. I read that maybe it's because we (humans) are always sitting on them so she thinks that it's more comfy up here. And I guess it probably is. I probably need to get her a doggie bed... but they're so expensive to get a good one. I don't want one that she's just going to destroy!

Chloe is also teething or going to be teething in the next few weeks. She can have ice cubes, frozen treats, dog toys made for teething... she just licks the ice cubes, I'm not sure what to freeze, and the teething bone I got her she doesn't like. I guess it's good that she wants to chew on blankets, towels, and rugs; things that are easy to replace.... but it would be nice if her toys were good enough for her!

First Day Not Coming Home For Lunch

Andy and I decided to not come home for lunch today. I've come home everyday since we got Chloe to take her out and feed her her middle meal. Today she got two meals, one morning and one after work. She didn't mind only two meals. She also made it through the day without messing up her crate! I warned Andy that it is only the first time trying it and she MAY make a mess in the near future since she's not used to not being let out during the day...

Wo-Zah-Wa

My mom and I took Chloe to Wo-Zah-Wa today. Everyone smiled and pet her... it was cute, until we just wanted to keep going. Mom put Chloe in a bag for part of the day. I'm surprised Chloe didn't try to get out harder... We also got kicked out of the park, thankfully when we were done. But what is with the park rules of 'no dogs'? How silly.
We watched the parade too. Chloe tried to sleep through it, but she didn't like the drums in the bands. Too loud and low pitched maybe?

Crate Training

Chloe got up around 2 this morning and started howling! I took her outside to go potty and when we came back to the door, I have accidentally left it open. I looked and around and found BOTH kitties wandering around on the new patio. They want to go outside, but then when they get there they have nowhere to go. It's pretty funny. I caught them both. I thought for sure Jody was going to run under the deck, but I got her first! That would have made a terrible night.

Chloe is getting better with her crate. She won't go in on her own, but if I take her over to it and put her front feet inside, she'll go in and lay or sit down and let me close the door without shoving her in. I think she'll get the hang of it yet!!

Hot Days

It's a bit hot for Chloe today, but I don't WANT to turn the air on. She gets a fan blowing in her crate. She didn't really know what to think about it this morning, but tonight she was laying in front of it while I was on the computer. I think she decided she likes it.

This past weekend, my aunt gave us a dogloo. Chloe also doesn't understand that it's for her to go inside and be shady.