Busy Day

 I have started cleaning out all the old magazines in my office to make room for all the plants coming in. I am not done but the dawgs are fascinated with what I am doing and want to help. So far it looks messier than when I started but I am making headway.

Inbetween we go outside and play and groom and play and clean and play and play - well you get what I mean.

I need to wash dogs but it probably won't happen. I am only human, after all. Aren't we all?

I am shooting for doing MOST of this room by bedtime and then tomorrow baths for vets. We are also practicing 'no bark' with our son coming in and out of the door about 30 times a day. They are barking less or shall I say for a shorter period. We are going to keep this up till he gets a job or beyond and I will take over. Hoping for 100% progress by December. It's a goal.

Havanese are not usually barkers but they do get excited in a pack at the door. I think every breed of dawg imaginable probably does. They just get so excited to see you so reward the right behavior and correct the wrong folks! Don't get excited to see them or you increase their excitement and then you will have to correct. Better just to stay consistent.

Changes in household also changes your house. We had kids move back in, a sister-in-law etc so the activity level changes and so do the dogs. They are what they experience.