As for potty training… Zoe has “chosen” a certain spot in the house where she has accidents. That’s due to a lot of things, but generally indicates to me that the cleaner isn’t working superbly well. However I am not complaining for two reasons: First, it’s on hardwood and not, say, the couch that has gotten peed on about 4 or 5 times already. (Seriously, the other day there were only 2 cushions on the couch at any one time, because soon as one dried, another was peed on. It was not a good day for the couch. This is hopefully no longer a problem because today she decided she can jump off the couch herself… and is no longer stuck on the couch needing to pee.) Second, because now I watch her extra carefully whenever she goes near the “pee spot”. Unfortunately the pee spot is the doorway of the kitchen, which is gated, which is where the cat likes to sit on the other side. So sometimes when she’s hovering it’s because she’s staring at the cat. Other times, she’s going to pee. But now when I see her sniffing around the floor and heading in that direction…. out the door, missy!! We’ve done really well today. Only one accident. (I think it was only one?) And it was only a half-one, because I turned and saw her just as she was peeing and gave a shout that interrupted her. The first few days it felt like I was always 2 minutes too late getting her out the door… I’d be watching her and watching the time and think, “Okay, I’ll just finish this bite of food and then I’ll take her out,” and she’d pee… or she’d go as I was getting her leash. Rather frustrating. But today I’ve managed to keep on top of it, I take her out when it’s 90% certain she’ll have to go (like after eating or sleeping), and whisk her outside when she shows any signs of it. And the reason I missed it the once was because she was still playing with Zeeke… she just took a brief interlude to pee on the floor. Gah.

So like I said, today she finally realized she can jump off the couch just fine. She jumped up there on day one (she has some legs on her, she’ll be good at agility), but then would stand there and whine and wiggle when wanting to get down. At times when she really wanted down and didn’t stop to think about it, she could and would jump down on her own. However most of the time she’d hesitate and not think she could do it. Today, I guess she just decided she wasn’t waiting any longer.