I think things are beginning to sink into Cowboy’s little
brain. While he’s been very good at sits
and downs, and can push the big, silver handicap button, those have been pretty
basic and repetitive exercises, and he loses all capacity for everything else. But
today I was actually able to call him off of Kizzy’s food dish – with food in
it – and he even brought me his toy and let me take it from him! In exchange for a treat, but still a huge
step for a puppy that has been very possessive of anything he has in his
mouth.
The past couple of weeks he’s been very apprehensive at
puppy playtime; which surprises me as he is so rambunctious with a friend’s
puppy. They bounce around and wrestle like crazy, and she’s bigger than he
is. But yesterday, even though he still
ran under the chairs occasionally, he actually came out from under them part of
the time to play with the other puppies. And then I heard him yelp and he started
limping pretty bad. I thought perhaps he
would hobble around for a minute and then charge back to the other pups but he
didn’t so I cut is short this time. I didn’t think it was anything serious but
just in case, I didn’t want to aggravate anything. By later in the afternoon he
was just fine, racing around the backyard like a maniac.
This afternoon I had to go into town for a few hours and
left him in his crate. He usually barks incessantly
if I leave him – with our without Kizzy, but today as I walked out the door I didn’t
hear a peep out of him. Of course that’s
not to say he didn’t scream once I drove off, but at least he was quiet as I
was leaving. Maybe he’s figuring out
that I am going to be back and he is not being abandoned…
When I got home I decided to give the carpet in his pen a
cleaning and took him out to spray carpet cleaner on it. He got to run loose in the house for a few
hours and did very well! I kept a close
eye on him and had to scold him for grabbing hold of an extension cord (it was
not plugged in), and trying to chew on the kitchen rug, but other than that he behaved
himself and I was very proud of him!
His new favorite toy is a plastic water bottle. I took the lid off and let him tear around
with it for about an hour and a half, until he chewed a hole in it and bit off
a small piece – then it went away.
Looking at some of the photos I took of him in the past
month I couldn’t believe how much he’s grown!
What a difference four weeks makes! 
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