Kona's First Night

Believe it or not, Kona was great last night! I think maybe staying overnight at the vet a day or two (I'm not sure if he was dropped off on Monday or Tuesday for his Tuesday morning surgery) got him a little used to sleeping alone in a crate instead of with his mom and littermates. We went to bed around 11 and he barked and whined for about 10 minutes then fell asleep. I actually got nervous that he calmed down so quickly and snuck back into the kitchen to make sure he was still breathing!! At 12:30, he woke up, barked and whined a bit and fell right back asleep. I woke up at 3:00 and couldn't fall back asleep, so when he started in again around 4:00, I got up with him and let him outside and played with him until about 5:00. Then he went back in the crate and whined on and off until 7:20 when I got up. I was really surprised he did so well, because yesterday afternoon I put him in the crate for 30 minutes to introduce him to it and he whined and barked his ever lovin' daylights out. Combined with Wake Forest losing to VA Tech and UNC beating Clemson easily, it was a great night. Also good, he has had 0 accidents in his crate, which makes me very hopeful about housebreaking going smoothly. Especially since he's been in the crate for up to 5 hours. That's a long time to make it.

So far so good! We're really enjoying having him here. I'll keep updating with details and pictures until you all are bored to tears of dog stories :)

Snoozing on my shoe during the UNC game. He laid there for pretty much the entire game.

Look how big his collar is. Haha...here's hoping he'll grow into it! Right now he despises the thing with the kind of hatred usually reserved for people who have caused you great harm. I thought something was wrong with him yesterday because his back leg didn't look right when he ran. Then I realized it was because he was trying to run and scratch at his collar at the same time. Silly thing.