Humans: oh, she’s a big hit. We’ve allowed way more alone time for Holly upstairs with the boys and I bet this will result in her spending a lot more time with them at night than Wiley does (Wiley is a one-track dog…he follows me everywhere…very rarely he’ll spend the night in Matthew’s bed).
Animals: Haven’t heard a cat spit yet; very surprised at this. Last night was kind of fun….was at the front door with Wiley and Holly heading out for a bathroom stop, opened the door and Madison’s there with a mouse in her mouth! She drops it…it’s still alive! Madison chases mouse, Holly chases Madison, until Madison just gives up on the whole deal and that ends that (sadly for the mouse, Madison completed her task later that night).
Wiley has still been a champ about Holly…but there’s been nightly puppy fights (video here) now. He’s playfully gone along with it and certainly gone way out out of his way to prove his dominance; he pushes her over, he ‘mouths’ her to the point that at the end of the battles she’s sopping wet from his saliva. Holly likes to go for the ears with her bites, so, there’s been a fair bit of squawking from both parties during the fight.
House-trained?: Well, we’re getting there. Still haven’t had an accident-free day yet, but, today we’re only at one and hope to stay there. She is very good at going outside (I think that having Wiley around as an ‘example’ is a good thing here…)
Crate/Sleeping: She’s way better in her crate than Wiley was….and the sleeping is improving day by day (she went seven hours in a row last night!….and went back to sleep after the 5 am potty-break too!). Wiley never took to being in the crate when we were around; Holly seems to like sitting in there, or on here bed, just hanging out.
