Ugh. Last night was long! I finally gave up at 01:30, after attempting everyone going to bed at 22:30, and moved the very noisy, whiny puppy and her crate out of the bedroom and to the living room.

06:10 Wake up and get her out. Cuddles!
06:50 Outside to empty the pup’s bladder.
07:00 Water tomato and pup while waiting for defecation. Vala goes nuts!
07:10 ‘Look at me’ for food. After three or four attempts she hops into my lap. More cuddling!
07:15 Outside again to try for defecation
07:20 No luck, so food in bowl and down … ignored, after a few bites. She settles down on her pillow after a bit of whimpering.
07:50 I get up to make myself breakfast, she decides nap time is over.
08:10 Say good bye to Sunhee, she whimpers and runs about, trying to find her! She starts doing the defecation spot hunt, so outside for that. YES! A success! Thank goodness! Praise and a freeze-dried liver bit. Food goes up, as she is mostly ignoring it or playing with it. Rescue my shoes from her and redirect her to the stuffed moose. A few times.
10:00 After a nice long run of napping, outside to use the grass. After I placed her on the pup-toilet, she used it fairly promptly and defecated. Praise, then back inside.
10:15 More napping on her own, out of the crate.
11:30 Put napping pup in the crate; she woke up, of course, and proceeded to whine while I showered and got ready to go to the apartment office, quieting down by the time I finished.
12:00 Pup out of the crate, a little cuddling and a little chew toy play, then she went back to napping.
13:10 Back in the crate, still napping.
14:45 Out of the crate, still snoozing. Making up for keeping us awake last night?
16:00 Out of the crate again. Don’t remember when I put her in. Trying to wake her up to eat! Added half a cup of 50/50 food mix to the previous quarter cup. She is eating, but it sort of depends on me tossing it on the ground in front of her, and she’ll pounce it and eat it. Managed to also get a successful instance of urination outside, and an instance of defecation outside!
16:34 She went back into her crate, chewing on the bedding a bit. I’m guessing a very bored puppy. Playing with the pup, as I don’t need another night without sleep!
17:00 Food abandoned, and she has decided that if I don’t play with her, she will sleep.
17:20 Took Vala for a walk—well, more for a carry—around the apartment complex. She squirmed a fair bit, and I’m not sure if she wanted down to explore or to run away.
17:45 Returned from the meander about the complex and let Vala out on the deck to see if she needed to use the grass. No go, so back inside. She flopped down rather quickly.
18:40 She’s awake! She’s playing! Gently, but doing something.

Hrm. Lost track of time, again!

At somewhere around 8 at night, I think, I got out Vala’s food and had her work for it a little bit, and made it a bit of a game in some cases so she could pounce the food. Worked a little bit on ‘look at me’ and said ‘take it’ for the times I didn’t have her do that trick, and had her take the food from my hand.

I had also decided to try a bit of an experiment. More on that later; the interesting result available now is that Vala loves ice! She went absolutely nuts after chasing the ice around in her metal bowl. She did a few laps around the kitchen divider. She ran down the hallway. She ran up the hallway. She ran around her crate. She ran from the kitchen to the sliding glass door. She ran from the sliding glass door to the kitchen.

She is now quite tired out! This is wonderful! It is only 21:20 so I’m not sure how this is going to work, but if she stays exhausted Sunhee and I should sleep great tonight.

06:30 Out of crate, urinated outside, after a very short play session napping next to me.
07:00 Sunhee’s alarm goes off, pup gets up and after a few minutes starts playing with her toys.
07:20 We go visit Sunhee as her alarm has been going off constantly. Vala gets very excited to be put on the bed to see her! More bite inhibition work, with either of us whimpering or squealing or saying, ‘Ouch!’ when she bites.
07:35 After harassing Sunhee and ‘helping’ her wake up, outside for defecation. Come back to have Sunhee sprinkle water on the pup from the shower, resulting in Vala going nuts and sprinting around the house.
08:00 Vala finally settling back down; time for her breakfast! I made her work for the first part of it with “look at me” for each few bites. After a few repetitions, I let her free-feed from the remaining half a cup.
08:05 Outside to urinate after eating most of the food, back in for a celebration of using the toilet, then back to eating.
08:25 After finally finishing her food, she actually seems to be looking for more. I jam some freeze-dried liver into the small holes of two of her Kongs and put her in the create, so I can have breakfast and get a bit of uninterrupted work reading done.
09:15 Out comes the puppy! Mellow-ish playtime, with her doing a good job of entertaining herself with toys and only needing me to make them interesting occasionally.
09:38 Outside to urinate. Lots of praise, then inside to wipe her off with a paper towel. Gave her a freeze-dried liver treat which she did her celebratory play, tossing it about and pouncing on it a little before eating it.
10:15 Outside to urinate again, in prep to go to work.
10:25 While getting the rest of the things ready, after she went, she defecated under my desk. AUGH! Finished the rest of the prep, put on socks and shoes, and got everything ready before putting her in the crate, so as to not associate the defecation and the create.
14:45 Back from work, get Vala out of the crate. Some gentle cuddling and petting, water her, take her out—nothing. She acts like an empty puppy. So back in we go. Take my eyes off her for about half a second and as I look up, it’s too late. Puddle on the carpet! AUUGH! This recent regression from perfect toilet behavior to using the apartment is driving me nuts! Is it related to her thinking she is climbing the ranks? Trying to claim territory? It is certainly VERY FRUSTRATING! Clean up the mess, take her outside to see if she is hiding any other ‘surprises’ but get nothing.
15:10 Prep food for the fuzzy brat, and work on ‘look at me’ for a few cycles. She does quite well, considering I’m upping the difficult by wiggling my hands with the food in them instead of leaving them static. After a few rounds, one final ‘look at me’ and I give her the remaining half-cup of food in her bowl.
15:30 Take her out again to the patio and toilet set up. She sniffs about a bit, then lays down on the grass of the litter set up. I set about a bit of clean up, and after getting her to leave the broom alone she sets about trying to destroy the remnants of the sod roll used to make her litter area. After a while I give up waiting for her to go, and drag her from the sod roll and inside. I rig up her Kong chew toy with freeze-dried liver rammed into either end, make her sit and ‘look at me’ before I give it to her. At least this will keep her busy for a little bit…
14:00 Grr. Accident number three today! This is driving me nuts! Clean that up, close more doors in the apartment to reduce her accessible area even more. Barely catch her before she defecates, and has accident four! Outside, set her down, and after a bit of delay she finally hops up on the litter area and defecates. Lots of praise, hugging, petting, and inside to get a treat. That makes things a little better, at least.
16:15 Whiny little puppy; time for a nap, perhaps? She keeps playing, and flopping, so I think I’ll see if she’ll take a nap.
17:00 She definitely needed a nap! Got her out, and after failing to get her to eliminate, off to the vet! She did great at the vet, and we got home… I don’t remember when.

Missing details as arrival home, and another accident—I’ll be so glad when we’re back to perfect elimination behavior—I’ve lost track of timing.

20:00 Offered her another half-cup of the 50/50 food mix, and she has only eaten a few bites from it. Guess she’ll have that as breakfast tomorrow, instead, if she doesn’t get more interested in it.
20:18 Oh! Finally interested in food, right before I was going to take it away.
20:30 After some grumpy puppy behavior, she is settling down for a nap on her own, which is good. So long as she takes a nap on her own, I won’t need to crate her.