The weather has been improving so I decided the next however long will be devoted mostly to spring cleaning!
But that got interrupted a bit because....
Friends of friends had her and were going to get rid of her because the kids weren't devoted or responsible so she was being neglected.
She's a 12 week old Black Lab/Australian Shepherd mix ^_^
They named her Angel but she isn't. We're calling her Luna and two days in she is already responding to it most of the time.
The name was obvious, really. Black fur, white-tipped paws and very pale blue eyes. She looks like a night sky! ^_^
I'm training her mostly on Japanese commands, too.
Sit: Suware
Down: Fuse
Stay: Mate
Come: Koi
Heel: Tsuke
She's got Koi figured out (though she ignores it if she sees something interesting LOL) and often manages to get Fuse right.
But the biggest things we're working on are some kind of sign she needs to go out to pee and stopping the nipping.
She's had a couple accidents in the house but nothing too big.
As it is she is already very attached to me. I was told she freaked out when I was gone for 15 minutes to get a shower and she couldn't reach me. As soon as I came back in to the room she fell asleep. LOL
Toys have been an issue. We don't have many because Tucker is a devoted chewer and destroys EVERYTHING. He has one toy that has lasted. We got her a hard plastic bone, a squishy fluff-filled ball... but one is too hard and the other too soft for satisfying chewing all the time.
As you can see, the bottom one was put to immediate use. The top will be set aside for when she tears up the first.
She adores her rope toy!
While I didn't make many mistakes - I only had to pull a bit out a couple of times - I am not happy with the results. I was hoping the blue and white striped yarn would look better than it does in this pattern. Oh well, filed away for next time. Some day I will find something that yarn is good for. To date it looks best wound up in a ball.
Hmm... I wonder if it would be more interesting if I did two blue and one with the twisty... It might stand out better... I think I'll try a shorter version for this one LOL That one up there is 39 inches long.