Tim, Barb and Alicia
You were right. Satie is very sweet. As a mater of fact we call her Sweet Satie. She has accommodated to us and our house very well. In fact the only accident on the second day was because we did not know her signals. She is still a little shy but she is getting better. We are now giving her more lattitude around the house and only have two rooms closed off. I think that she would be ok there as well but there is no hurrry to open it all to her. She wants to follow us all around the house and she loves going out on our walks and training sessions which are done three or four times per day. Her potty habits are great – take her out and go to her favorite places and say potty a few times and it is a done deal.
Her level of training is unbelievable. She has all of her behaviors mostly down pat. Healing still requires some work, especially when the wind is blowing and there are leaves flying and butterflies flying around that just have to be caught but she is wonderful as an 8.5 month puppy.
She did go into heat around 3 Nov and after the first day she didn’t mind wearing a diaper around the house when we noticed the bleeding on 8 Nov. It has limited the length of our walks as we want to stay far away from male dogs a possible. We are scheduled for a trip to the vet for spay the second week of December. Once she is spay we will get her more time with other dogs and we think that this will help her shyness.
All in all she is just a sweet, beautiful, well trained dog and we quickly have gotten to love and bond with her as part of our pack. Thanks to you all.
I will be mailing a photo book of Dory to you early next week, attention Jess, as I told him I would. He did an excellent training job with Dory and now Satie.
