Furniture is Fun!

Emme has learned to jump up on furniture. When I lay down on the couch to read, she jumps up to burrow in back or underneath the pillows to find a little "hidey hole." She will stay there for a while, then with a great amount of movement and effort, change positions and settle down again. She will sometimes stay there with me for an hour or more. She delights in jumping up on our laps when we watch TV in the evenings. She settles down next to us or snuggles into whatever quilt is on our laps. Ken says that you can tell she is a quilter's dog, because everytime she is around a quilt, she settles in for a nap.

We are playing a game: "Find me for food." I put her on the leash and go out into the yard. I walk a few feet and call "Emme, come." When she comes, I tell her "Emme, sit" and I give her a treat. She is doing quite well but I am concerned about the treats. When we played this game with Rudy he was 85 pounds and I gave him little pieces of broken dog biscuits. Emme, on the other hand, is six pounds and I am concerned about filling her up with treats. Instead, I am using her usual puppy food as treats. She doesn't seem to mind and I figure that if she gets filled up and doesn't eat her dinner, she has actually eaten her dinner during the game.