Gremlin Ears

Monday, February 15, 2010

The days are flying by, and Luna is growing by leaps and bounds. I suspect we have little more than a couple of weeks left in our current "den" before we will need to buy the next size up. She is showing the changes in her structure as well. The "puppy" is leaving her cute little face little-by-little, and today for the first time, Marc saw both of her ears standing straight up. He said he noticed it when she was in her den, so his initial reaction was, "What the heck is that in her den with her?!" Then he realized it was her ears! LOL. They didn't stay that way long, though, and by the time I got up, she was back to having gremlin ears.

She is becoming more bold, too. She ran from Marc for the first time today. BAD PUPPY! This particular bad behavior is a particularly frustrating one, and I think we'll have to do some long line work and really start a concerted effort at getting her trained at "sit" and "down." I think we have been so focused on the potty training we have been slightly remiss on further issues. Not to mention we are both fairly worn out from lack of sleep and constant vigilance, trying to prevent accidents. She is so unbelievably hard-headed with the issues we have tried correcting thus-far that I am a little worried about getting all of this under control.

We have a new, temporary addition too. T.L. has come down to stay a couple of months with us and brought his little guy Tank, an English bulldog/American bulldog mix. He is very sweet and mild mannered. Luna, however, was none too impressed and did not want him near her house or her dad. She did her best to herd him away from the door, raised hackles and all. Having failed, she decided she needed to bite him on the back to show him who was boss. After it was established that she was in charge--of him anyway--all was good, and he was allowed to come in the house and even to play a little bit. Wow, what an adventure this will be!