Tucker's First 2 Weeks

What a busy time with a puppy!  The girls have fallen in love with Tucker and thankfully, my allergies have not precluded us to return the puppy!  Tucker has been adjusting to the routine and the house and the people and we are adjusting to him as well.  Yes, there have been some accidents.   But they are getting fewer and farer in between.  I am doing a better job of reading him (head down, sniffing the carpet in circles) and getting him outside.  It took Tucker a few days (Friday) to figure out how to jump on the couch...which is not allowed.

Also on Friday we took him on his first walk.  The girls and I took him just around the cul-de-sac.   He did a lot of sniffing around...but it was a good length of time.  We will work our way up to Riverside school, and back.

Tucker had his first bath on Saturday morning the 22nd.  He didn't like it too much and kept trying to get out of the tub.  TJ and the girls did a great job.  He did not like the hair dryer, so we just let him air dry.  He sure fluffed up a lot!

Sunday evening we had Grandpa Bob and Uncle Jason over to see Tucker.  They thought he was so cuddly and would be happy to dog-sit anytime.

In Tucker's second week, we heard him bark for the first time.  He saw himself in the full length mirror in the bonus room and started a deep growl with a "woof."  It was pretty funny.  Kenzie was spending the night so she and Bailey and Sydney were around to witness the bark.

It was a rainy Spring Break week so after going outside he would come in with some wet paws, mouth, and under carriage.  We would try to dry off his paws, at least a little bit.

He also escaped from the backyard this week.  He's been using his electronic doggie door quite smoothly since we got the new battery installed for the collar sensor.  I even witnessed him pooping outside in the grass while I was inside.  Yay!  One day, Bailey, Sydney and Kenzie were playing and acting "Frozen" scenes in the front room.  I was in the kitchen and Tucker was somewhere outside in the backyard.  All of a sudden, Kenzie shouts out, "Tucker's in the front yard!"  I dropped what I was doing and ran to the front door, ready to throw it open and start chasing.  But when I got to the front door, there was Tucker, standing right in front of the window, like he had just rang the doorbell and was waiting to be let in.  Whew!  I had visions of him running across the streets and making it to Parkcenter Blvd, dodging the many wheels of 5 o'clock traffic.  Tucker had gotten out by squeezing under the fence on the West side of the house.  That night, TJ put a bunch of sand under the gates on both sides of the house to temporarily deter him.  We have pavers being installed soon to fill the gap.