Chester was neutered on Monday, January 21 (Martin Luther King Day). We took him in in the morning and were going to pick him up the following day, but the vet’s office called in mid-afternoon and said he was ready to come home — and was not happy to be where he was — so we picked him up the same day, along with Sophie (see the Frankenkitty posting).
He weighed 34 pounds — four pounds more than on his first trip to the vet on January 2.
He’s a great pup, though he’s a handful at times. We’re dealing with a few issues, the most important being that he has a tendency to pee in the house when he gets excited. We think that working on his crate-training will help that. We keep toys in his crate, and he now goes into the crate to get the toys, and sometimes even lies down for a short while. Soon we’ll be able to confine him for short periods and then lengthen the confinement periods until we have some control over when he pees. We’re sure he doesn’t have any physiological problem with holding his pee, since he easily holds it all night until he’s taken out in the morning.
Since he’s teething, we make sure he has plenty of appropriate things to chew on. We bought this huge beef bone at the pet store yesterday, and he loves it. So far he hasn’t chewed anything he wasn’t given to chew, except for a bit of newspaper. But he loves to fetch miscellaneous objects (shoes, socks, wadded up paper bags from the recycling bin) and carry them to the daybed. He doesn’t chew them (as far as we can tell). He seems just to want them as trophies.
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