Just another day…
It’s amazing how quickly we adapt to stuff - woke up this morning and wasn’t particularly surprised to find a puppy in my lounge - was surprised, in a nice way, at how unbelievably excited he was to see me - I would struggle to think of anything which comes close to this in terms of making you feel special and wanted - I like it a lot. What I didn’t like was the clearing up - although he had been extremely good and make excellent use of the newspaper, he had made rather too much use of it if you ask me which made picking it up quite tricky - it had lost much of its structural rigidity and what with the weight of 1’s and 2’s collapsing was what it did, not catastrophically, but still an unpleasant event so soon after rising.
We played in the garden where he produced more ‘presents’ and was heartily praised and then re-capped on yesterday’s lessons - I’m pleased to say that he is still ’sitting’.
Things Toby prefers to dog toys
- A used Fanta bottle
- The lining of an old hanging basket
- Flowers
- Leaves
Unfortunately had to work today so left him alone which was a shame, and I feel his progress might be hampered by this… Also realised that if you want to leave the house in a suit then you have to sort out all his stuff first which adds about another 1/2 hour to proceedings. I’ve no idea how parents cope, I guess thats why one of them stays at home so they can spend all day clearing up after the morning bomb blast. I had people over last weekend so my house was all nice’n'tidy - today it looks like a typical ‘after’ shot in Beirut. I’m not naturally proactive in the tidying department but even so I’m really not sure it’s worth spending too much time making it nice when the next time he’s out in the garden he’s going to bring a fair bit of it back with him.
He’ll meet his first visitors this evening - I’m cooking dinner for a few friends - I can’t wait to show him off - I hope he’s well behaved (proud_dad).
I thought these first few days would be really difficult but to be honest it’s been a breeze - maybe it’s not so hard, maybe I’m a natural.