The week has just flown by!  But not without some house progress to show however.  Thursday was a day of errands, Ryan had his leadership thing in the morning so I ran errands.  At lunch time we went over and picked up more decking now that it was in.  Then we took Fitz to the vet (while he seems house broken at our house, he certainly still marks at other places – he peed twice at the vet) 🙂

Then we packed up and headed down to uncle mark’s for a sleepover (with Fitz).  He got to meet Buddy and we kept a very close eye on him so he wouldn’t pee in the house (he did lift his leg once the rascal).  He was very good however and even the car ride back didn’t seem too scary for him.

Home friday, Ryan got to work laying the new decking!

New decking down!

Halfway across the front door.

While he worked on that, I puttered around the house, doing some small drywall patches in the bathroom and gym so those could be really finished.  And I finished stripping the first side of the gym door, vacuumed, did laundry etc.  At 1pm the trainer came over to discuss our contract and to do some training.

For the first two weeks we are working on sit, stay, come as well as how to walk on a leash properly and some relationship building (humans lead the way out of (and into) the house, he sits for food and basically anything and he only has 15 minutes to eat in the morning and night or else he doesn’t get his food.   Also eye contact, we need to build his confidence by making him look at us more.  We were working on most of these things already so we have seen some progress and hopefully in 2 weeks we’ll be ready for some more advanced training (sitting while there are distractions around etc), staying for longer, laying down.

The training session was very good and now I know how we should be walking him and I’m more comfortable with our long walks.  Speaking of walks, the spoiled boy gets 2 long walks a day during vacation.  During the week he’ll have the trainer come by twice a week to walk him as well and one day a week we’ll try out doggie day care.  Spoiled!  We’ll see how this goes throughout the 12 weeks of training and then re-evaluate his needs.

Anyway, today Ryan is back to the decking, I’m painting touchups and the trim around the gym door (wanted to wait until the treadmill was in).  We have company coming today, Sarah is coming up and Uncle Pete is going to stop by with the Georgia to meet Fitz and see the progress.  Too bad it’s cold out today 🙁  Well I’m going to run down to the corner store quick before Sarah comes, then finish my painting.  I plan to get some stitching time today for sure!