My first night Home

So the little fluffer had a nice time on the way home. He didnt bite too much, didn't cry, and didn't try to LEAP out of my arms. He wiggled a little bit, but he was pretty calm.

We are taking the firm "NO" and tap on the nose for discipline. He was very jumpy and cuddly! He would bite our fingers and sweatshirts and shoelaces a little bit.

When we got home, we put on his harness and leash and took him for a walk around the front yard. This was the first time he ran around near us. (Previously, we only held him). He was hopping and jumping around a lot. He actually was moving so much his legs came out of the harness. Although he did not go to the bathroom at this point, we took him inside to inspect the harness. We are keeping him in the office for now with his crate. It is easier to keep an eye on him in the smaller room. We are always keeping an eye on him. About 10 minutes after he jumped all over us and smelled the room, he squatted and went pee a little bit. There was no sign he was going to do it right then- no circles, or extreme sniffing. He just randomly squatted. I quickly grabbed him and grabbed the leash and said "Outside" and took him out. It looked like he may have went pee a little bit.. but it was hard to tell. We walked around the yard for about 10 minutes and when he stopped walking and started to lay down, we went back inside. He is having a hard time adjusting with the hallway where the door is. He doesn't like to walk from the house through the door. It was easier having him go from the outside to the inside. We put on his collar so at least we can take him out with the collar for now until we can get another harness or fix this one.

We played with him for about an hour to tire him out. He was used to going to sleep around 9:30 and it was already 10. We were in the room with him. We had some music on and played WoW.

We set up his crate with a small rope toy, pee pad on the bottom, towel, and two shirts (we wore them recently) He cried for about a minute and then laid there for 10 minutes awake and then went to sleep. We woke him up at 12 and took him outside right away. We said "Outside" as we were taking him out. We told him "Go to the bathroom" over and over. He went pee right away which was good. I tried to give him a treat as I said "Good Boy" but he was excited and was jumping. I had him smell the treat and had it right by his mouth, but he didn' take it. We walked around another 5 minutes and he went poo. I once again told him "good boy" and tried to give him the treat. We came back inside and played with him for another hour or so. I went to make lunch, but apparently he squatted to go pee and Daddy grabbed him and took him Outside and he did pee a little bit more. We put him in the crate for the night around 2am. We kept debating whether or not we wanted to move the crate.. or sleep down in the room with him.. but we decided we would leave him for the night. We kept one of the lights on and had music on all night.

I got up early, prepared his food (1 cup dry, 1 tablespoon wet) and got some water for him. I went in, grabbed his leash, opened his crate and got him "Outside" ASAP. He hesitated a little bit when we walked to the door again. Once we got outside, I said Go to the bathroom and he went pee around the same spot he went the night before. We walked around another 5 minutes and he went poo, but it was only a little bit. We walked around another 5 minutes and he laid down again, so we went inside. He didnt hesistate coming back inside and we went into the office again. I took off his leash and gave him the food and the water on the ground. He went right to the food and ate about 1/3 of the food. He then got a drink of water and then ran around the room for a minute. he came back and sniffed the food, and then drank a little bit of water. He ran around again. and then came up to me to snuggle. I was sitting on the floor and he was trying to jump on my arm to get to my face. I picked him up and put him on my chest and he was snuggling on my face/hair/chest. He was there for 5 minutes and then jumped off and ran around again. He then tried to climb on my chest again so I picked him up again. Daddy came in and helped me give him the antibiotic pill he needed. I left for work but I heard he went outside twice and went potty no times.

No accidents have been reported yet today. I checked the crate this morning, and there was no pee or poo smell, and there was nothing wet in the crate. Awesome!

We are trying to get him used to us and the house so he has only been in the office and to the door so far. There are a lot more places he could be when gets into another room. We have not had him in direct contact with anyone else in the house yet since we will be the primary caretakers.