So I'm 40 hours in and already 1 major goof. We are now 5 and 1 on housetraining. This morning I took her straight out from her crate and she dutifully peed--wonderful, but showed no inclination to poop, and wanted to go back inside. But did I put her back in her crate since she hadn't pooped? I'll let you guess. Of course not. I let her wander around the bedroom while I got dressed. And what happens just as I'm in an impossible to rush outside state of undress? Exactly, she's starts circling and produces. Which means I should restart the 2 week clock on relaxing supervision, right? But . . . I don't want to keep her with me all the time since this will increase the sep anx risk. So the answer is more crate time obviously. Hmm, I'm already starting to compromise on this though, as at this moment, she is lying on a bed in the bedroom, not quite within my sight from the dining room. I can rationalize this by telling myself I can hear if she gets up, so apparently, I'm willing to sacrifice some housetraining efficiency, and can't bear to up the crate time dramatically.
Speaking of crate time, she merrily emptied the kindergarten Kong (of all but the last of the boring kibble) I gave her in the crate yesterday while Henry and I were in another room, but began to howl when she ran out of good stuff. Had to wait her out for 5 minutes before she stopped crying long enough for me to let her out. When I did my 20 minute errand, she emptied 2 kongs and I didn't hear any vocalizing when I returned. Will do 2 more errands today with slightly harder (baby food buttered) kongs that will hopefully last a bit longer.
Added roast beef bits to each of her food bowl meals. No CER to approach yet but no tension either. She investigates my fingers, and then removes the treasures from the bowl to eat off the floor. Also did 3 exchanges (at different times during the day) for a low value toy where I presented and removed the toy, gave her a bit of chicken then gave back the toy. No CER but no guarding. Will do this today with toys already lying near her.
She's afraid to get in the car, actually tried to bolt on first car ride (since coming home ) yesterday. I have to lift her in, but she doesn't resist this and is settling faster than she did on the way home, at least once she gets the car rugs bunched up to her satisfaction. I'm not going to do anything about this for a couple of weeks unless it gets worse, as the fact that car rides will always take her to fun walkies places may take care of it. She reeeaaally likes memory foam so may put a piece of this on the floor to see if it helps her settle.
She had a mad great time shredding some paper she took of the desk yesterday, so I may push the leave it and drop it training up higher on the agenda.
And not a formal training session yet.
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