Zibby update 7.15.09

Zibby had her surgery yesterday and we picked her up today at noon. She's doing fine. Surprisingly lots of energy. She seems like her normal self. We took her on a walk around the neighborhood tonight, and she did real well. It's going to be hard to keep her from doing stuff for 10 days. She seems normal and she is trying to do everything normally. I figured she'd be lethargic and sleep a lot... not so much.

She's getting big. I forgot to ask how much she weighed when I picked her up today, but I'd guess she's gotta be over 30... probably closer to 35 or 40.

She outgrew her first [training] class... we'll start her up again in a couple months. We are continuing to reinforce come, sit, down, off, and stay as often as we can. It's still pretty hit-or-miss as to whether she listens or not. She's better than our friends' 9month puggle. But not nearly as good as our other friends' 2yr boxer. I guess that's to be expected though.

And she's very comfortable with her crate now. She still prefers to be near us when possible; but she doesn't have a problem going to her crate when we tell her to go (most times) and she behaves while in there.