Yesterday, my granddaughter-in-law, Lauren, came with me to Greenville County Animal Animal Care to adopt a puppy that I'd seen pictured on their website and "needing a home". His name was Geddy but - based on his whizzing around the yard as soon as we got him home - he's been renamed Lightning! Brunel loves his baby brother, and they get on really well together. Weirdly, Brunel growls warnings like the sounds like Chewbacca on Star Wars, and last night Lightning suddenly opened up with a hound-like yodel, so we are having some fun moments listening to them.
Overnight was quiet. Brunel isn't food or pen aggressive, and Lightning has gone into Bru's bed a few times, but overnight I shut him up in his own bed with his snuggly toys, and he slept really good from 11.30 until about 7am. We've had a few accidents but he's usually trying to go outside when it happens, and as soon as he is out, he pees and then runs off to find a place to do the other.
He seems to be a natural "sit-er". When he comes up for loving, he immediately sits, so I'm simply telling him to sit before he has chance to, and then giving him his treat, so that he knows the command. With me also doing the command with Bru, it's just reiterating it.
He is a darling, and already loves us and his big brother, and is having fun exploring everywhere. Being a puppy, we're going through the same thing we did Bru at this age ... we have to hide ALL FOOTWEAR or they disappear in the mouth of the small brown speedy monster that zooms off when he sees us watching him.
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