It's been a while, but that's okay. Hogan has turned into a lovely dog. He finally had a couple of accidents (peed in his crate) (pooped on the kitchen floor under the table), but they were both actually my fault. He hated the crate bed. I think he accepted it when first here because he was being very, very good, but I noticed that he was kind of tearing it up. I put a pillowcase on it and that worked for a few days, then he peed all over it. Ugh! I washed the bed and put a different pillowcase on it, and pow! he did it again. The time he pooped was when I was on a chat with a customer service rep. Hogan never lets me know when he has to go outside; I have to guess. But this time he was sitting at my feet looking at me with begging eyes. I knew he had to go, but couldn't stop the chat with the person from India. Next thing I knew, I smelled poop. At least he did it under the table on the linoleum floor making for easy cleanup.
But all of this was over a month ago. I bought a new bed for his crate, one much more comfortable, and there's been nary an accident. And now that he lets me know with his begging eyes that he has to poop, there's not been another accident. Of course I have come to know when he has to even without his begging eyes.
I've stopped crating him at night and let him sleep with me. I swore I would never do this, but he's very comforting and he loves it. Sometimes he gets under the cover and snuggles with me either in front of my stomach or at the back of my knees, other times he is outside of the cover and snuggles up to my chest, sometimes he's either under or over the cover at the foot of the bed, and sometimes he's either under or over the cover curled up to my back. This is a little strange for me, as I've always had cats and they always chose just one place to snuggle. Hogan has quite a variety, or maybe he's just experimenting.
He still loves to go on walks, although for the past few days I haven't been taking him. Got an allergic reaction which involved rashes and seriously puffy eyes, but it's going away now. I really really need to go to sleep now!
