9.5 Weeks

Jazzy bounced back from her sprained paw in just one day. The vet said young animals are amazing in their recovery time. I guess so! You could see a soft tissue injury in the shadow on the x-ray, showing swelling-but it was gone, and she was ready to play chase by that very night. Too bad WE don't bounce back that well from our injuries! My sprained ankle took many weeks!

She is now nine-and-one-half weeks old and weighs 7.5 pounds. I have no idea how she is gaining weight-she doesn't really like to eat. She is supposed to eat 3-4 meals a day at this age, and have 1-2 cups of food for the day. She is eating at most 3/4 cup of food a day. I guess, like any other creature, she will eat when she is hungry!

She learned to walk down the stairs in our bilevel home. Well, sort of. She did it tentatively a few times. But then she missed the last step and hit face first on the landing. Now, she just goes down a stair or two and sits there trembling. I guess she remembers that fall! She will learn it when it is time-and until then I'll just have to keep my eye on her. She only tries to go down when someone is on the landing, because she wants to be where the people are. She really hasn't discovered the lower level of our home! She does, however love to climb stairs-almost running up them. So funny!

She also has learned how to jump off of the couch, chair or ottoman. She doesn't just jump down-she jumps OUT-like a long jumper. I'm telling you-she is preparing for the agility course. She even likes to jump over hurdles (our legs).

She is still wanting to chew on things and tear up anything made of paper. We have had to put everything on a higher elevation. Sort of like baby proofing your house-we have doggy proofed it!

Jazzy went to bed at 10:30 last night, and slept until 5:15 a.m. before she stirred. She might have slept all night, but I didn't want an accident, so I took her to her special potty pads to go #1. Good girl-and back to bed. I woke up at 8 a.m. and she didn't really want to get up then, but didn't want to be away from me either. I had to use the restroom, so left her in the bedroom, master bath area (Russ was in the shower), while I went to the other bathroom. When I got back, she had, all by herself, used the potty pads! Good for Jazzy. And now, when she has to go #2 in the day, if we don't get her outside in time, she runs to the potty pad to do her business. I'm so proud of her! But, I have to say I've been much more faithful at being regular with taking her outside to relieve herself. We go every 1-2 hours of our waking day. That has caused us to have zero accidents that were Jazzy's fault. There was one or two accidents that were OUR fault for not paying attention to her when she said she needed to go outside NOW!