Home alone

Today, Reilly had to spend most of his day alone, for the first time.  Poor pup.  He did pretty well, though.  I had to leave at 6:30 am for a three hour drive to my neuromuscular doc.  So the livestock got fed at dawn as usual, and I made sure Reilly got plenty of run-around time this morning so he was tired when I left.  Chris put extra paper down for him.  And since the big dogs had to stay inside today too, as the temps were over 100, never mind the heat index, Chris came home midday to let everyone out for a bit.  Reilly didn't have any accidents...until after I came home.  Still, he's doing quite well overall on the house training.

It's really funny, because we've kept one door to the back of the house closed and the other baby-gated, mostly.  If someone leaves the door open by accident and Reilly goes to the back, we use the line from "Turner and Hootch"..."This is not your room!" and he turns and comes back out to the front of the house.  Today after I got home, I didn't bother putting the gate up, and he would look through but not go through.  He doesn't think he has permission to go there, even though the other dogs do.  Mastiffs have a tendency to follow rules, to the extent that they understand them.  At this point, Reilly is understanding that the back of the house is off limits to him, and is abiding by that rule.  As his house training progresses and his "territory" expands, I'll need to give him formal permission to go where he thinks he can't.  His interpretation of the rules as he sees them at 11 weeks is pretty good though.  He's  a very smart puppy!

Chris did weigh him for me this afternoon, and he was 24 pounds on our scale.  That was 36 hours after the vet weigh-in, so they're pretty close to each other.

Didn't work on anything today.  Won't do much tomorrow either, as he has another trip to take.  This time, he goes to Georgia, to my parents house.  I'm taking a crate, in case we need to separate him from their dog, or just give him a break from all the people.  

Meg and Reilly...on a partial day off!