Bailey has been adapting to her new home quite well. She’s an early riser, though, that’s for sure! She has gotten me up at six, which is about an hour before I’m really ready to get up. I was thinking she needed to go out, but nope, she just wants to get her day started!

We’ve taken her to a couple of parks and she’s loved it. Hawthorne Park was one of Max’s favorite parks. It has a great big duck pond, and Bailey loved it, too. She wanted to hop down into the pond, but it’s fenced so she tried to sneak under it!

There is also a water park there, and we started up a bunch of the various fountains for her, and she lapped up the water. Pretty funny.

Today (Thursday) I took her for a run through Sunnyside Urban Forest. It’s a great park, with lots of trails through the forest. She is not great at socializing yet – she apparently had a very sheltered first year, and hasn’t had an opportunity to meet a lot of dogs. Well, that’s going to change with us, since we’re always in one park or another.

Today she met a couple big dogs, a Golden/Mastiff cross and something that looked like a short haired Samoyed, both female. She apparently has real issues with female dogs, but both meetings came off very well. I was very pleased with how that went, and not a little surprised too!

We’ve been continuing her daily training, and we’re teaching her a new trick – she is sitting in front of us, and we pretend to get her to come between our legs, but she darts around behind us, and comes through our legs from the rear! It’s darn cute. Hopefully we’ll get it perfected so we can take a movie of it.

Anyway – all is good. Well – not all – she does have a habit of drinking with her mouth quite deep in the water dish, and then dripping all over the place! It’s kinda funny, until you see she has dripped in huge puddles all over the kitchen and stairs leading to the family room! haha