Oh, its been a long time!

Lacey is now 16 months old. We haven't posted any pictures or written about her in a long time. Maybe (no promises) we'll get around to posting some current pictures that show that she has grown into a lovely young bitch ;).

The main reason for posting now is to officially announce that she is housebroken! This has been a long trial. She has been on very thin ice at times and we were not sure we could keep her. There even was a draft email created to Fox Terrier Rescue that sat in the computer for a long time. But she is soooo darn cute that she was always forgiven.

She was even sent to in-residence training with a trainer in the area to try and pattern her on relieving herself outside. At the same time they built on her general obedience and response to command skills. When we got her back her improvement was remarkable, but more so in the obedience and response to command than in her bathroom habits. In fairness to the trainer, he had done some good patterning but it was reliant on creating a similar physical environment -- something that we could not successfully do since our home layout is what it is.

So we just persevered in training her as we had successfully done with our two terriers in years past. And finally I can announce success. What a relief!

Even as I was composing this note, Lacey ran to the door to let me know she needed to go out. Oh what small joys life can bring!