He’s home!! We finally picked up our funny, loveable lurcher Drago from Dogs Trust yesterday. We’d taken Frodo along for a final ‘getting to know you’ session which went fine again, and then after a fair bit of paperwork he was actually legal ours!!
I’m home!!
I was a bit worried that Drago would be nervous in the car. We put Frodo on the back seat and had Drago in the boot where they could see each other and Drago was completely chilled out! I sat in the back with Fro so I could keep an eye on them and Drago was resting his head on my shoulder and he even lay down and had a rest a few times when he wasn’t nosing out of the window. Overall a complete success 🙂
When we get home Drago was nervous to actually come into the house; we think he must have been shut in somewhere because he hates going from outside through a doorway into a building. Poor pooch, I hate to think what he’s been through 😦 Once inside though he was really good, having a nice sniff around and accustoming himself to his surroundings and once Frodo had stopped trying to hump him he lay himself down on the rug and sprawled out!! We couldn’t believe it!! Either he has come on in leaps and bounds at Dogs Trust since we first saw him or these Adaptil products really work!!
What’s that spotty one up to behind me?
Toilet training is going slowly so far, we were advised that Drago had been having diarrhoea over the last couple of days (great!!) and was on a special diet, but he didn’t toilet any of the times we took him out during the afternoon, evening and before bed. Instead he saved it for when we’d gone to bed. He obviously missed us and was scratching at the door so Ian went down to settle him and discovered ‘Poomageddon’. A huge, splattered mess on the carpet by the door to the stairs. I’m not sure if it was nerves that caused it, maybe separation anxiety was the trigger, but it took a hell of a lot of cleaning up that’s for sure!! A bit later in the night we could hear strange noises and after going down to investigate Ian discovered Drago had reached high up onto the back of one of the work surfaces, grabbed the box of dog treats, taken it into the lounge and both he and Frodo were tucking in to a midnight feast!! Naughty hounds!! All was quiet for the rest of the night though so I think we got off quite lightly there.
This morning I was again greeted by ‘Poomageddon’, in a similar place, so I think separation is a big factor with this. It isn’t helped by the fact that as Drago is a Lurcher and can jump for England he has to be either tethered to his long-line or on the lead in the garden, which makes toilet training more complicated. Frodo isn’t helping either, I was hoping he’d show him the ropes but it’s pouring with rain so Frodo took one look outside and gave me a look which suggested he was thinking ‘You’re having a laugh!!’. As well as the diarrhoea splat I found that somehow the naughty pair had got hold of a box of Dentastix and scoffed 3 out of 4 packets. And this was after we thought we’d moved everything out of reach!! Rascals!!
Right now I’ve got Frodo curled up on the sofa next to me and Drago is sprawling across his favourite rug. A perfect scene. Although today I am doing something I never thought I’d do, buying carpet protectors from Argos. I’ve always mocked them but after clearing up two massive piles from the carpet in less than 6 hours my pride is losing out to practicality. Well, just until Drago gets rid of the runs and becomes better house-trained 🙂
Brain Wanderings 