Our First Week with Jools

(Sorry this picture is blurry, but Jools won't hold still! I think it's really silly and wanted to share.)

It's been a whole week since Jools entered our lives and she has become quite a handful! She tricked us the first few days while she was quiet and well behaved, because now she is a wild woman! We (well, Mommy and Daddy) have been cleaning up accidents in the house several times a day. We are constantly telling her to stop chewing things or to stop jumping. We also discovered that when she went under the bed, she was chewing on the thin lining on the bottom of the boxspring and coming back out with all this fuzz hanging out of her mouth! (And there were some accidents under there too...yuck!) Taking her outside to go potty is also a challenge because she gets so distracted by me running around and doesn't pay attention to the fact that she is supposed to be taking care of business! I've grown a little intimitated by her since she started jumping and I back away when she comes near me, but I'm working on that.


All of that said, she has been a ton of fun too. She loves to chase tennis balls and her tail, she wakes me up with kisses, and she barks at her own reflection in the fireplace doors. She goes into her crate without any trouble, and she is even learning to sit on command! I think it's pretty neat that she follows us around all the time just to be with us as much as she can. I got really sick the day after we brought her home and she stayed right by me the whole time I was camped out on the couch. Man's best friend, indeed. I love having a dog now! What more can you ask for in life than this?