A growing girl

The trip to the vet on Friday went well. Lacey is now 5.6 lbs (2.54 kilos). That's a 40% increase in two weeks. I swear I thought it was going to be more -- she seemed so much bigger. But it may just be that she is getting so much more lively and determined.

I have experimented with the video on my iPhone, but haven't yet gotten anything worth posting. What I think would be most interesting would be something from my point of view where I see her doing something cute. But it's hard to see something, get the iPhone, and then hold the iPhone steady enough. The frame rate is 10 fps so if she is thrashing about it is just a blur. That suggests a quiet time would be best...but if she is not moving a video is not better than a still shot...so I have some work to do to become a good videographer.

Lacey is doing much better at night. It doesn't mean that I have been getting a full night's sleep, but it does mean that she is not fouling her crate which is the first step.

We keep her on a leash except when she's in an area for easy clean up. Outside she is always on a leash because she is very quick and very curious. And she really wants to meet people. Her trust level is waaay too high and that's not something you want to quash. But its easier to make her too afraid than learn just the right level of caution. So the leash is the principle regulator at this point.

Lacey's breed is known for being very smart and I hope that training some day will make her highly reliable with verbal commands. But I know that is definitely in the future with a lot of work that, frankly, I have never achieved with any of my previous dogs. So I suspect the wild card here will be my commitment and energy more than Lacey's.