2 Week Update for Honey, 3 week update for May

Honey and May both started daycare this week. From day one May was/is the life of the party, playing with anyone and everywhere who will chase her or she can chase. She's either in someone's lap snoozing, or running around stupidly. May is the kind of dog who thrives on social interaction. Without other dogs around she's going to get bored fast! Sure she'll hang around with her person/be a lap dog for awhile, but she's got too much piss and vigor to cuddle for too long.

Honey on the other hand took a day or two to warm up to daycare. She is super social, but she doesn't venture far out of her comfort zone. After 4 days she is now playing quite a bit and although she can get too riled up sometimes (its the terrier in her) she's quite easy to call off, have a quiet couple of seconds and continue playing. Now when Honey sees she's going to daycare she KNOWS its time to PLAY and if no one wants to play with her she's sure going to become a terrier and annoy whomever she can until they play! Honey's new terrier style game is to chase little, fluffy dogs who don't want to be chased. One of these days she's going to pull that on the wrong dog and get some stern telling off, but when that happens I'm sure she'll just turn tail and booker. For now, we keep her occupied -especially since Honey can play a mean game of fetch and bring the bone/ball back 80% of the time!


The most interesting/challenging thing we found this week is that Honey NEEDS the company of another dog. For interviews at the daycare today, I arranged to bring Beckett with me and May -as there was a tiny pug puppy that I thought Honey might be a little too rough for right off the bat-. Jerrad wanted to go for a walk so it was decided that he'd take Honey for an hour and a bit to work with her one-on-one. Fifteen minutes later I find Jerrad coming into daycare with Honey. Without any other dogs around -so far- Honey buckles down into severe seperation anxiety. She paced and howled in the back of the car. When she got home she whined/began to dig at the fence and she definitely wasn't going anywhere on a leash with Jerrad. So he brought her to the daycare, a big ball of stress, frantic, pacing, drooling. She found another dog -the two hanging out in the office weren't mine- and was instantly fine. When she calmed down a bit she came and hung out with the rest of us and she found her 'house siblings', friends from daycare, etc, and was just fine.

I will try walking her on her own tomorrow to see for myself how she is without any other dogs around, but it seems fair to say that Honey will benefit from a multiple-dog household. She isn't picky about who she hangs with, so hopefully it doesn't make her adoption harder. It is understandable that since she was very young she's always had lots of dogs around.

An just to fun, a half-minute of the dogs doing what they usually do.