Indy Update

Well, things have been going fairly well. He recovered fine from his minor surgery and didn't chew the staples out or any of that highly annoying business. But we did find he had some minor worm issues when he went to get those staples out, so we had to keep him somewhat quarantined from the other dogs for a couple more weeks. So he's been living in the barn since then.

I put him in the kennel with the other dogs on Friday for a little while and that went well, but I decided not to leave him there since Ashley and I were going out for the evening and I worried that my parents might not be able to catch him if he got out. So I waited until yesterday when I put him in and he was fine for a couple hours. I took the boys to a basketball game and Ashley was at home only to find he had gotten out. It was about dark and I wouldn't be home until after dark, so she just put him back in his stall in the barn (which he didn't seem to mind very much at all). So today I found how he was getting out and it wasn't a hard fix (he's not a very big dog and there was a gap between the gate post and the garage he could climb up and squeeze through). I blocked that off and he's been out there a few hours. Here's hoping he stays in the kennel all night! He's only trying to get out because he wants attention from people...

He's getting along great with Jasper and Sandi. Sandi even plays with him some. He'll have to learn to eat when food is out there instead of trying to play, though, because the other two have hoovered his food so far. He'll get hungry enough to figure it out, though. But he's healthy, friendly, and doing great. Now to start working on more training...