Time flies. It has been 6 months since Caitey 1st joined our family last Aug. I find myself in love her more and more each and every day.
She is SUCH a beautiful, sweet, loving and obedient dog.
She listens and responds to our commands, even when she wants the other way. I have heard/read a lot of horror stories about how others Goldens chewing up the house, messing up the garbage can, ripping toilet paper, stealing food, biting people etc etc, but my Caitey is behaving great in our house and does none of such things.
Of course when she first came to our home as a newborn puppy she was curious about everything, but after a short while her nature to please took over and made her a perfect family companion. If I don't want her to do anything, it qukk only take a firm "NO" and I won't have that headache again.
I have a room sized closet which she was not allowed to get int. While her sister Caitlin and I were going thru our things in there, Caitey popped her cute little head in the door and watched us with great interest but did not step in. She was very happy when I said OK, and roamed around the room that is filled with stuff without touching any of them.
She does not go into the piano room, she does not chew our slippers any more, I can leave my shopping bag on the floor and don't have to worry about them getting ripped apart, she can hold up to 12 hours straight without having any accident, and she has graduated her crate and sleeps like angel in my room everynight to be my company.
If I let her out on the patio by herself without tying her up, she won't make a move and will wait patiently outside the door for me.
I think Caitey can even understand what I think. Perhaps because I had wished that she could be just a little less friendly towards strangers and more protective of her family, I think she heard me so all of sudden she started barking at strangers walking outside our house to alert us....thank you good girl!
I am SO grateful that I have the best doggie in the whole wide world, that I feel bad about not being able to play with her all the time.
It is time to find her a good companion so she has someone of her own kind to play with, especially when both are still puppies so they can get along well for many years to come.
So it is our mission to find her a nice hubby out of humanitarian (more like "caninitarian") concern.
