Rosie, Mocha, Junie B., and Tippy

I am nearly finished with the dog room.  I sewed all the curtains this past weekend and hung them up (temporarily just nailed to the walls until I can come up with a plan for long enough curtain rods that won't cost a fortune).  I'm going to add one brace to the divider, because as it is now the dogs can lean against the door and move it enough that it will swing open.  Not a huge deal since all the dogs get along now, but if I ever have a dog that needs to be separated, I don't want them to be able to interact without me being there to stop it.  It's supposed to get pretty cold this week, so I'm not going to move the dogs out there yet anyway.  So I'll make that one little change and maybe this weekend I'll move them out there and then take some pictures.

I took some video of our walks on Saturday.  I took Rosie, Mocha, and Junie out for the first walk.  It was a risk with three dogs, but they did wonderfully!  Junie got a bit tired about 2/3 into it, so I ended up carrying her for a bit.  Tippy and Hardy got the 2nd walk.  I don't know how often Tippy was walked before I got him, because he was initially not liking the leash.  But he quickly got used to it, and you can see in the video that he's a very good walker.

Rosie is doing really well.  She loves spending time outside with me when I'm out working.  I was fortifying the dog fence yesterday because I noticed in some places the dogs could have crawled under if they wanted to.  So I put up a baby gate to keep the dogs in the house, and Rosie jumped over to keep me company.  I figured she would, so I didn't mind.  She's not the one I worry about escaping anyway.  Especially under tiny holes in the fence.  The one negative with Rosie from the past couple weeks, is that she thinks since Tippy isn't crate trained, she doesn't have to be.  I know that's just coming from the change in pattern with a new dog.  She's already starting to get back into the habit, so I'm not concerned at all about this.  Plus when I move them into the dog room, I doubt this will even be an issue anymore.

Mocha is still as cute as ever.  He did meet a potential adopter this weekend, and we discovered that he still has a ways to go with getting comfortable with new people.  Here I've been praising how far he's come, when it looks like it's just that he's extremely comfortable with me.  So I'm going to need to introduce him to more people.  I have no doubts that he'll make a great pet for someone as is, but I have no problems working with him to make him a great pet for someone in the future.  He is my little cuddlebug, so I would certainly miss him if he did get adopted and left me! 

Junie B. is going to meet her potential family soon.  I still can't describe enough how wonderful she is.  There's not much more to say about her.

Tippy is starting to come out of his shell more and more every day.  I've let him sleep in my bed a couple nights, just to speed up the process of getting him comfortable with me, and I think it's helping.  He's playing with Rosie, Mocha, and Junie quite often.  He and Mocha act so much like brothers, it's funny.  One minute they'll be growling at each other, the next minute they'll be chasing each other around playing.  I also caught him pick up a couple toys to chew on.  He's still a bit of a loner, laying on the other side of the couch as me and the rest of the dogpile most of the time, but if I get up to get anything, he follows right behind.