Another fur-baby....

So I got a puppy tonight.

Yep, you heard me correctly.

A. Puppy. A 6-week old, female, black-with-white-accents, border collie/German Shepard/wiener/lab/hound mix (okay, so she's basically a mutt). (And yes, I do realize that within a week I went from owning one pet, a gorgeous kitty - who isn't really too pleased with me at the moment - to owning two more - a baby rat and a puppy).

And, seeing as its 2:30am, one can safely assume that she has not stopped whining/whimpering/crying since I started trying to put her to bed almost 2 hours ago. Of course, these whimpering jags have been interspersed with long periods of snoozetime....but only if I'm sitting in my regular chair in the living room (whilst being on the computer). Heaven forbid I actually get to crawl into my leaky inflatable mattress for more than five minutes. I don't want her to get the idea she's allowed in my bed (that privilege I'm reserving for Elvis, my cat), as well as she can't even really jump that high to begin with. I just spent the last half hour or so leading her over and over again back to the blanket-bed I made for her on the floor of my room and getting her settled in. Hasn't worked, obviously, as I'm now sitting here, hunched over, back aching, blogging about it while she naps away peacefully at my feet.

However, after five or six little 'accidents', she's finally learned that we go on the paper. Oh, the joy I felt when she achieved that milestone!!! I literally jumped up and down and then gave her HEAPS and HEAPS of praise for being such a good girl.

I think I just got smart - I just picked her up from where she was sleeping and carried her to her blanket-bed...will it work? Will she finally sleep where she's supposed to? So far I haven't heard or seen anything yet, so I'm crossing my fingers that it will....and I think that's my cue to see if I can sneak off and go to bed myself, finally. Hallelujah!

Her name, by the way, is Molly Marilyn.
(She'll be called Molly for short. I'll see if I can get a picture uploaded tomorrow.)