E-mail, Jobs, and Puppies
Dude. Took them long enough.

Chester College + Student E-mails

In other news, interview at Kohls today at 6:30. Slightly anxious already and it's only 11:30 in the morning. Awesome.



People are moving in soon, which is awesome. Walls are going up and doors are being fixed on Friday (or at least, they're supposed to be. *insert eyeroll here*), Kelsey's up on Sunday and Rachel and Shannon are in here by Tuesday. I can't wait to meet the hedgehogs and see what the kitties think of the scent of rodents in their house. Rhubarb is going to be a nuisance.

Bailey's gonna have some adjusting to do and they're all gonna be so confused when the walls go up and they can't just wander over the other side anymore. I don't think Rhubarb will be happy, he'll have to use the litter upstairs with the kitten. I foresee lots of kitty complaining.

I'm concerned about the puppy and being able to train her properly before/once school starts. I won't be around as much and with schoolwork watching her as much as I need to to get her properly house trained is going to be very difficult, but I think Matt and I have decided that between the two of us and his mom (who we have to train to train the puppy, she's not very good at this), we can make it work. Which is good, because I've gotten kind of attached to the little fucker.

She chewed through her leash today, and the one I found in the house to replace it is already have chewed through. When we're not playing with her we keep her tied up downstairs where her bed, food, and toys are so that she's not wandering freely through the house, peeing on things. So now her confinement down there is tenuous at best.

I wish we had room for one of those little gated playpen-like things so she could be confined that way instead of tied up, but it wouldn't work with the layout of the kitchen. I also wish the yard was fenced in so she could play outside unsupervised, but it's not so she can't. Which sucks because she REALLY loves being outside. We got one of those lines that attaches to a spoke in the ground for her, but if we put her on it she just sits there staring at the house and whining. We mostly got it so that when she's a little older we can just put her on that for a few minutes when she needs to go out and do her business and not have to treck out in, say, the snow so she can go.

With Bailey (Matt's adult dog) we can just let him out the door, he'll do his thing, then stand at the door and wait to be let in. But she's young and doesn't know the boundaries of the yard and likes to try and explore the woods, so we can't let her out unsupervised. Again, I wish we had a fence.

Anyway, babbling, gonna stop. Any puppy training tips are more than welcome. I've read everything I can track down online but a lot of it is just very basic and doesn't address more specific concerns. For example, she whines. Same whine no matter what she wants. Attention, food, water, outside to play, outside to pee, toy is out of reach, kitten is taunting her, we're not looking at her, all the same, so she can be whining and whining and it's just because she wants to come play, or it could be she really really has to pee and I have no way of knowing which is which. Nor do I have any idea how to train he to use other means to communicate what she wants.

We have a bell tied next to the door and she was doing god with just using that to tell us she had to go outside to do her business, but now she's ringing it just to get our attention to play with her and stuff.

Blarg, really truly gonna stop babbling now.