Small Feats for Small Feets

Repost from 3/5/09

Charlie is growing with leaps and bounds! He's now 7 weeks old! I don't have any new pix yet but as soon as I can get my grubby little hands on a camera I'll have some new pix up!

But as I said in the headline, he is dominating in small feats! First, is the leash! He hated the leash at first, he's starting to get used to the idea though. Second, was leaving him home alone all day while I'm at work. He hated me leaving. He would whine and howl and yelp. The first day was horrible, the second day he got limited it to just whining and yelping. The third day it was just whining and today it was just a whimper. Third, he's learned to bark and it's so freakin' cute too! Fourth, we finally tackled the stairs! At first he wouldn't even MOVE, I had to keep carrying him up and down. Then he got used to climbing up, whining and yelping all the way up! Then he got used to the climb up with no problems. Tonight! He was sooooooooooo amazing, he finally defeated the climb down. Barking, whining, yelping and whimpering all the way, but he did it! Finally, he's learned to hike his leg up to pee! LOL! Well it was just maybe an 8th of inch off the ground but he's done it! I'm so proud of how my little man is growing! He's quite an amazing little pup!

The training is taking longer than I've anticipated. But we got the sit command almost down. I'm trying to teach him hand commands but right now he's doin okay with just "sit" of course it's only for a split second, puppies have such short attention spans! The house breaking is taking much longer but he is just 7 weeks old and he still doesn't have control over his little bladder yet so I'm trying to be patient with that. He still can't jump yet. He hasn't quite figured that part out. But he LOVES Rosie! They play so hard all the time, they even lay down together, it's really cute. But Rosie is a show off, she knows that Charlie can't jump on the couch or the bed yet so she teases him, A LOT!

Well that's the one week update with Charlie. Stay tuned for more!