Of course, when things are starting to go well, I am going away this weekend for 4 days! Already not looking forward to the return next week, but on the upside, I don't really have to be at work, so I can spend a lot of time with Poppy for the next 6 days.

Yesterday was great. She cried and barked when I left in the morning (with Rescue Remedy and Thundershirt, but none seem to be working when I am not in the apartment). When I came home at lunch, she had moved everything in her pen around, her bed was on the complete opposite side where I left it in the morning. We went for a walk, were I seem to be pulling her half the time and the other half she is pulling me, so that is something we are going to work on hard in the new year. I got her calming treats in the mail, so I gave her one (sans Thundershirt) when I left after lunch and I didn't hear a peep out of her, though they were doing construction on a unit in my building and the noise from that was way louder then her, so if she was making noise I nor anyone else could not hear it. A good thing!

Evening was the same as always, playful, chilling, nothing exciting to report (though I haven't heard her do any sort of coughing in two days, YAY!!!). I wrapper her up in her Thundershirt and put her in her crate, but forgot the Rescue Remedy when I took a shower at night and she was again, DEAD SILENT!!!! So awesome. Lets hope this pattern keeps up.

This morning when I left, I gave her a calming treat before breakfast and she was so quiet, didn't make a peep, sort of like the Rescue Remedy last week and was totally fine until I left the apartment and she screamed and barked for the 7 minutes I waited in the hall. Oy, I don't know what I am going to do about that. She LOVES her kong, so I think I am going to get a bigger one to put her whole meal in it as that might be what distracts her in the afternoon and night. I also need ideas for more dog toys that don't need supervision with because I think she moved her bed around yesterday because she was board and because of the Thundershirt. She didn't do it in the afternoon. More testing and seeing what works best.

Also, any opinions are giving a 12lb dog a treat recommended for 25lb+ dogs? It's a calming treat and Poppy has horrible separation anxiety and it's supposed to help. What happens? I can't really test with me in the room as she is fine when she can see me but I don't want anything to happen. And any non-supervisional toy reccs too!