Nothing New

Well, not a whole lot has changed over here.  We go for walks and we play and we go out in public.

Last night I went for Mexican with a few friends in Cambridge.  While at the restaurant there was 2 young boys that were quite interested in Ilse (their parents ran the place).  So, they were constantly around and want to pet and interact with her.  What was good, was that Ilse did very well ignoring them and keeping focussed on me.  Despite missing out on conversation with friends, because I was watching these kids, it was a very good experience for Ilse and she did very well.

Oh, so I guess I lied, there is some new things going on.  A few nights ago, I purchased a new crate for Ilse, since she has grown into the one I had borrowed from EW.  She was a bit hesitant to it at first and whined a bit the first night, but I think she likes it now, and will go in there and sleep throughout the day.

Overall, things are good.   Here are some pictures! 

Which Way the Wind Blows

In my backyard there were a few things left here and there by the previous homeowners.  Ilse has been kind enough to find the majority of these things for me.  It seemed each time I let her out there for some free play time, she would rummage up something new.   However, in the last few weeks this has died down and I think she had collected all there was to be found.  As she collected it I placed it in this storage bench, so that she could not get at it. (these pictures were not taken in order, but rather taken and adjusted to better tell the story).

However, over the last few nights it had been windy, which resulted in this:

Bench lid blown open by the wind. Ilse checking it out.

Which resulted in this:

Oooooh, look at all the goodies in here.

 Which resulted in this:

BUSTED!

  Which resulted in this:

This was how things were in the bench before she went exploring:

Items place back in (after removed) to give context

For those keeping score at home, the only thing she didn't remove from the bench was one tennis ball, which she was in the process of doing when I caught her.

Needless to say the bench is closed up once again, and the so called "toys" are no longer in there.  She didn't seem to happy about my decision.

"Maybe if I look sad and cute, I can have them back."

"But they were fun... :( "

- PK & I

I thought I'd start with a photo.

While to most of you, this doesn't seem like anything out of the ordinary, it actually is.  This is not my bathtub.  This is my co-worker EW's bathtub.   Why am I bathing Ilse in someone else's home? Well, she didn't get muddy.

You may recall from earlier posts that Ilse and EW's dog Boomer have become pretty good friends, as seen below.

(Ilse is about the same size as Boomer now)

With them being good friends, EW and I decided to have a play date, they could run around, chase one another and have a good time.  I arrived at EW's house and Ilse has already caught on to where we are, so she gets pretty excited and takes some effort to calm her down.  Once she is calm and settled, we allowed the two to go in the backyard and play.  All was going great running here, running there, plenty of excitement!  Then Boomer decides he has to take care of some "business".  He finds a spot and tries to go start "filing his paperwork" when Ilse comes over and starts pestering him a bit.  Boomer stops, plays a bit more, then remembers, "This report is due, I need to do this now".  

Seeing that Ilse won't leave him alone, I call her over to me, and she comes more/less right away.  Boomer finishes up, and we let the two at it again.  After a little while longer, Boomer decides it's time to take a pee and Ilse seems not too interested, so we decided not to worry about it.  However, once Boomer had lifted his leg, Ilse appeared to be thinking "Ohhh, that seems interesting!"  and headed on over.  At which point she crawled under his stomach and placed her head right into his stream of pee.   

She can be quite the puppy at times!  This didn't seem to bother her at all and she just walked on over to the door and looked at us like, "Why are you guys looking at me so funny?", meanwhile you can clearly where Boomer had marked his territory.   But hey, if their friendship can get through that, I think they will be alright!

(is it over yet?)

(she doesn't seem to mind TOO much)

(we don't like to be watched)

Then of course we had to have some fun with her being all wrapped up in a blanket!

(Yay! All clean!)

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- P&I