Day 2: potty training and cuddle time

After doing our homework through several puppy books, we knew our first goal would be to figure out Ilid's pee schedule. We started a log of every time she went so that we could start predicting and taking her outside before she had a chance to do anything inside.

On her first night (she went to sleep in her kennel after only 3 min of whining!) she woke us up a few times - and we were on high alert!she had gone to bed just after 11pm and woke us up to go pee at 12:20am, 4am, 5:45am and then we were up for the day at 8am. We were so relieved though that she didn't do anything in her kennel and knew to whine to be let out to relieve herself.
We spent the day on high alert - if she was outside of her crate for more than an hour then we usually took her outside; which didn't always result in her doing her business outside. We still had 4 accidents inside but we had 3 successful potty trips outside!
We also had decided ahead of time to train her on a command when going to the bathroom. We use phrase "do your business". So every time she was actually going to bathroom outside, we would say "do your business".
For food, we needed to switch food from what the breeder had been feeding her as we weren't able to buy it in Calgary. So we worked on switching her from Diamond to Solid Gold. The breeders had sent us 4 cups of the Diamond, so we mixed 60% Diamond and 40% Solid Gold to get her used to the new food. Taste wise, Ildi never seemed to mind the new food, but for a few weeks she did have some diaherria.

And she sleeps alot! We would put her back in her kennel (teaching her the command "kennel") for each of her naps (about 5 naps - each for 1-2 hours). Though I admit a few times we let her nap on her because it's the cutest thing to have her cuddled up with you. And she loves cuddling! true to her breed.