Small successes

We are finally all in the same bedroom.

I go to bed early with Tinkerbell and she only takes about 15 minutes to settle. K then comes up at about 10.30pm which disturbs her but she is usually settled again by 11pm.

I’m just glad Tinkerbell barking doesn’t set Bluebell off, it would be like the Twilight Barking if it did.

Tinkerbell in now settled in her crate until the reasonable hour of 6.30am. I then get up, let them both out and we go back to bed for family snuggles. This is my favourite part of the day. All four of us in bed snuggled up together snoozing.

We have discovered her favourite food is chicken, sausage comes a close second. Give her a chicken and sausage Kong and she is in doggy heaven.

The mouthing is calming down, she now seems understand that it has the opposite effect to the one she wants as I ignore her and walk away.

She has been introduced to the neighbours dogs and that went well. It wasn’t planned. The dogs escaped and ended up in our garden. K brought them into our house whilst he put shoes on to take them back home.

She loves to chase things, we have a rope toy and a bouncy star which seem to be particular favourites. We are just playing in the house at the moment as we are taking our time with letting her off the lead.

I feel like the house is a tip as we haven’t cleaned properly for ages. A ‘lick and a promise’ as my mother would say, is all it’s had in weeks. Tinkerbell needs us to spend time with her, cleaning can wait until she’s settled.