With this article I bring to you my latest Gracie update.

I recently went back to live in Boston, so I have not seen her on a daily basis, but when I came home last weekend, I definitely saw some progress happening with that dog. My mom was smart enough to bring her outside to greet me because she apparently knew that Gracie was excited to see me. That being said, she still pees when she is over-stimulated, but at least she is no longer doing what she used to do which was urinating the moment someone comes into the house. However, she does urinate when a male comes into the house; we think this is due to her being scared of the man in her last household.

Here is one more gross story for you about Gracie relieving herself before I switch the topic. So apparently our puppy was sick again last week. I think that she has been healthy for only one or two weeks of the month or two that we have had her. In any case, this week she had her typical stomach problems, but being the smart dog that she was, she decided to make her mess in our bathtub. Though that is pretty disgusting, I would much rather clean up a mess like that from a bathtub floor than from the carpet. So we’ve somehow managed to train our dog to make a mess in certain spots of the house; I suppose that could be called a success?

Other than that lesson, our pooch has definitely been learning from her lessons at school. She now will sit and wait for you to give her permission to go through a doorway. She also is starting to leave the cat alone more frequently. Though the hissing and the growling noises are heard loud and clear, the amount that we do hear the noises has drastically decreased. Another behavior that has been toned down is her tendency to pick everything up and tote it around the house!

So, though she is still a handful, I have definitely seen some strong steps in the right direction!