Ok – so I had a minor freak out this morning with Dash, and considered returning him to the RSPCA.

Last night he was good as gold, whimpered for about 20 minutes when I put him to bed and then didn’t hear form him all night till about 6.45am. Justin took him straight out for wees, but Dash had in the night done 2 poos, and then came inside and did another 2! This is when I started to go a bit crazy and wonder if I had made the right decision. Also, the whole things about Jessica being on the floor and scared to death of him was also playing on my mind. Now, I am not one to believe in stuff like Feng Shui, but all of the sudden we have these barriers up to stop Dash roaming into carpeted areas of the house and I feel as though I have become claustrophobic (sp?). Stepping over the ironing board to get into the loungeroom is not how I saw my beautiful open-planned house looking! Oh well, just for a short time till he is housetrainined I keep telling myself. Also, I feel so guilty about leaving him outside, but DH Justin is out there at the moment putting up chicken wire to stop him from getting out, and we have fenced off part of the yard and now we can leave him outside while Jess is in here and on the floor. It is only fair that Jess is my first priority and she certainly doesn’t want to be stuck in her high chair all day long becasue Dash is inside.

So the upshot of it all is that after I had my moment of post partum depression (after all I am looking after a baby here) I have decided that he can be outside a lot, and come in for periods of thime when Jess is asleep or in the highchair. Maureen (MIL) has given us the loan of a doggie jumper, so he is all warm in his kennal, chewing on a delicious pig ear. This will hopefully make the toilet training easier as he will already be outside.

My shock at all this new stuff is subsiding and I am geting used to having him around and looking out for him. I am excited by being able to take him on walks, and for the kids to have this little friend to play with.

Roll on Summer!