sneaky sleeper

We suspect that Epic was allowed to sleep on the bed in her previous home. The first few nights she was at our place, she WOULD NOT get off the bed at bed-time or stay off when we physically pulled her down. We are five nights in now, and she knows what "off" means, and will do it. She is a fast learner! However, she sneaks back up in the early hours - what a sly dog! Although I'm a light sleeper I didn't wake up when she snuck onto the bed last night, and there she was, fast asleep, when my alarm went off. Sneaky!!

But, like everything else, she seems to be learning what is expected very quickly, and she really does want to please us.

We took her with us into the doggie daycare near our house yesterday to pick up our own dog, and she went nuts. She was bouncing off the fence that separated the entrance from the play area, her tail was going a mile a minute, and she was zooming all over the place - she really, really wanted to play! She's at that age where this behaviour will start to gradually taper off to a sane level, but she will definitely always be a super-sociable dog.

Because of the cold damp weather here lately, we've put a coat on Epic once or twice when we've gone out for walks, but I think she may not like doing her business with a coat on. We've got more cold weather coming up, so we'll test this hypothesis.

Not much to report on Sophie. It's same-old, same-old in the cat room. We're going to work on touching her whiskers until she doesn't care about it, and then we'll touch HER. (and probably get swatted the first few times.) Wish us luck.