It is SOOOO difficult to remember to use them, however, and I think she is learning quicker than us!
Happily, Queenie is a very good puppy. She is quite calm (for a puppy) and is generally very well behaved, although she is interspersing her calm periods with periods of bounciness. She seems well behaved. I think this is similar to Wilbur and Dumpling, however, it’s not necessarily that they want to be well behaved, it’s because they can’t see to be naughty! I can’t remember Rosie EVER being so calm, particularly when she was a puppy. BUT, Queenie has forgotten her house training. From being very good, she now decides she can ‘go’ whereever she likes. It’s particulary annoying when it is inside the back door!
Rosie and Queenie do have a good old rough and tumble together, which is nice to see. What isn’t so nice is when Queenie will go outside and join the rest of the gang in an outdoor snooze and they’ll all get up and leave her and she doesn’t know they’ve gone! She sleeps very deeply, because she is totally deaf. She actually looks different to the other dogs when she is asleep, and I think this is because she doesn’t have one ear open for things going on around her.
It’s very obvious that she can see light and dark. She sees shadows on the wall. She saw Ian’s shadow on a wall the other night and barked, thinking it was a person.
The main problem we have is with Queenie barking at night when she gets ‘lost’. She goes outside but then can’t find her way back again. However I think she is getting better at this – either that or we are getting used to it! We had spoken about night lights, but we have no plugs in the hall – perhaps that is just as well!!