With Cayleb's first hook up (tethering to Ivy) going so well on Monday with Vicki and Cathy present, I was ready to take on the world - or at least WalMart!
During our week of training at NSD, Eric and I became the 'alpha' dogs in our family, and Ivy was happy to follow our commands! This was great until I tethered Cayleb up to Ivy and she kept trying to heal to me.
This coupled with Cayleb walking every which way and Hermyonie struggling to keep up made for a disastrous situation.
Getting a cart in the store and looping Ivy's leach around the handle, I thought things were going much better; and they were! That is until Cayleb said 'hold it in and don't poo your pants'. Half way to the washroom Ivy squatted and had diarrhea on WalMart's floor.
Quickly cleaning up the mess I made the decision to get Cayleb to the washroom before taking Ivy outside. It was in that instant that Cayleb spilled his hot chocolate all over the floor!!
All I could do was take a deep breath and carry on.
I failed to mention at the beginning of this blog, I decided on WalMart as a place to kill time while my tire got repaired after I ran over a nail on the way to the dog park today.
I guess the moral of the story is that NSD wasn't exaggerating when they said the first year would be the toughest. Maybe they should add that the first month is the hardest (maybe I'm wishful thinking). All I can do is push through and know that this time next year we will be settled in our new house and life will be easy.....ER!
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