Gidget's surgery

The vet just called and Gidget came through her surgery wonderfully. She had to have 2 teeth pulled. She didn't have many to begin with but they said they were so loose they almost fell out so they are only charging me for removing 1:-) She'll also have to go back to have her stitches taken out because she was still swollen from having the pups. I guess they couldn't use dissolvable sutures because of the swelling.

She was so excited this morning when we put on the leash and went out the front door. She thought we were going for a walk. I took her out yesterday with Prim and she was rarin' to go.  I'll need to start walking her once she recovers a bit from her surgery. She's still quite plump.

Prim has decided that she doesn't like the front yard. I'm not sure where that came from. I had worked so hard socializing her with people and places in the house and back yard and with sounds and surfaces but it seems like children, they never act out in ways that you expect.  I have been taking her out and just sitting on the bench on our porch and feeding her treats (when she's under threshold enough to take them. I've been doing this several times a day. It'll take a while but we'll get through this. I don't want to push her too hard but do want to make sure that she learns that the outdoors is ok. I'm just still very surprised by her fears this early. I had taken her out the front before several times and she didn't seem to mind it. And she seems ok when my husband takes her out the front. I can't think if anything I've done that might have scared her. Oh, well. We'll just work through it.

I've started replaying the sound desensitization recording which I had stopped a week or so ago. Just making sure that I am doing as much as I can to keep any fears from cropping up. I had wanted to start taking her for little walks around the neighborhood. (I'd even thought about taking her in her crate to Brinkley's classes for exposure there but that's a long way off. Now I'm just hoping she'll be ready for her own class starting in January.

I gave Prim a bath this afternoon. She started out ok. (Lots of peanut butter smeared on the sink). Got tired of it quickly. Luckily she's a quick bath. I had wanted to get all of Gidget's slobber off her. Now that she'll have clean teeth and breath, it won't be so noticeable when she grooms and chews on Prim. Yea!!! She smells so nice now.