The change from having an elderly, ill, blind dog Charlie, to having a young, energetic puppy Zoe, has been quite significant! Zoe chews everything. I mean everything. I came home the other day to find her standing on my coffee table in the middle of the room, trying to chew one of the legs off. So most of my belongings are suddenly being kept on benches, tables, or stuffed into my studio. I bought this shoe rack online the other day and now at last my shoes are safe and off my studio floor. On the plus side, she is basically toilet trained as long as she get outside. We haven’t yet mastered the ‘whining to get outside because the door is shut and she needs the toilet’ aspect. My rugs are in the backyard having rain wash puppy wee out of them, every few days I do a lap of the backyard to rescue whatever items (cutlery, makeup, handbag etc) she has snatched and hidden out there, and most evenings we curl up on the couch and watch tv together. I love tv on the internet, I don’t even have to tape stuff. 🙂 My garden needs some love and I’m itching to move some furniture around inside but it’s good to be making a start on creating a ‘puppy proof’ home.