@Nella68 @YorkshireFelix I can only dream of an upstairs bathroom – if I need the loo in the night I have to GO DOWNSTAIRS, the horror of it, which involves not only very creaky stairs (and remembering to leaving the loo lid up before I go to bed so it doesn’t make extra noise) but also creeping around trying not to disturb pupsy in the snug which shares a wall with the bathroom. Stupid old house layout. Dog-dad is always threatening to buy me a chamber pot but I will not hear of it since it is not 1657.
We are also going through a phase of waking up and woofing an hour or so earlier than normal and I can’t figure out what’s going on, but it is at least 7.15 not 1.30! I got up with her at 7.15 this morning and brought her back to my own bed without a word as a signal that if she wakes me up at that time then she won’t get anything except a comfy bed to lie in/on. Think it might be the heating kicking in so going to try with it totally off in the morning tomorrow and see if it makes a difference. I suspect for V it’s an adolescent blip if you haven't got foxes shagging nearby. It's all the more odd because it's the middle of the night rather than just earlier in the morning which is more understandable. Dogs are weird, though.
@Bupster Hooray for your extended walk! Sometimes they really do surprise us, but you’ve hit the nail on the head – beneath the hideousness they are the dogs that we have trained and loved. Bless him.
Inspired by some ~discourse~ elsewhere (@YorkshireFelix knows!) and because it is chucking it down, I have just done literally ten minutes of ‘scent work’ with pupsy in the house with five pieces of pate. I showed a piece to her and let her sniff it, sat her up in one room and then went and hid a piece in another room, and asked her to ‘go and find it’, which is a different command to her usual ‘find’. Five pieces of pate and a great deal of very active sniffing later, she is passed out totally sparko on the kitchen rug. Will definitely be doing that again – she loved it!