I came home and didn't see Precious in her usual spot. So I looked up and she was on my bed! I don't know how she did that. I guess I don't really mind, but I will have to start making it up if she's gonna do that. I think that cat hair all over my skin would be itchy. I don't mind so much if it's on the top blanket, though.
So, Chupa's doing great so far. I found out this morning that she's a bold little shit. LOL Usually, if I'm gonna let another dog in the dog room I'm careful to do introductions to make sure it all works out. Well, I guess this goes to show how NOT used to having such a small dog around I am: I went in the dogs' room with Chupa loose in the next room - not realizing that she could fit between the bars of the gate. She went right in behind me! No introductions, nothing. Just went in and much to my surprise none of the other dogs hassled her. She just went in like "What, bitches? I'm in here. Deal with it." Totally confident. I was impressed.
While I'm glad that didn't cause a conflict I'm not ready to just put her in there without me here. I hate to be over-protective, but she is SO small. I guess it's not like she couldn't come out if she needed to, though. She fits right between the bars. But still. Not doing that right now.
She's looking a lot better. I keep food down for her all the time and she is really eating a lot. Pooping pretty huge for her tiny self, too. LOL But I know she has some nutritional catching up to do.
I don't know what is with me lately. I love all animals - really, I do. I've just never been much of a cat person or a small-dog person. But I am just head over heels for both Precious and Chupa. Precious is staying here for sure - that was my intention from the beginning unless things just really didn't work out. I still don't have plans to keep Chupa. That really bums me out because I can tell that she is super-attached to me already. Not that I don't like her, too, but I don't need a seventh permanent dog.
Foster-momming is so hard sometimes. 🙁 I can clean up the poops and the puddles and deal with the behaviors of an animal that just doesn't know better, but that's really not the hard part for me. The hard part is feeling the attachment and knowing that it's gonna hurt us both a little bit (or maybe a lot) to let go. I wish I could just explain it to them. "Hey, kid, no hard feelings. I love you and I want to help you, but you're not my forever baby. There's a perfect family out there for you somewhere and I'll help you find it. It'll be worth the wait. I promise. Till then, you're with me. Let's just try not to get too emotionally involved here. Deal?" LOL That would be great.
Anyway, after Chupa's next vet visit in a couple of weeks I will get her spayed and then after that recovery she'll be ready to go. Hopefully, we'll keep making progress with the house-training. Once she's all caught up on her eating maybe I will give her meals instead of free-feeding and that will help with our potty efforts. For what it's worth she isn't too whiny about being put away and seems to catch on to the routines pretty fast. She is good with cats and other dogs. She responds to "Ank!" if she's doing something she shouldn't... like sniffing around in the litter box.
The only thing she might have issues with is that she's protective of her food, but what starving creature wouldn't be? She doesn't bite over it, but if the cats go near it she runs over and growls and then eats as much as she can. She's similar with her lap time. She gets jealous if a cat is in the lap she wants to sit in. She doesn't growl about that - just gets up there despite the cat. LOL She just eats the attention up. She's gonna be a great little lap baby for someone. ❤
