I wanted to put Chester in daycare one day this week. I went back and forth with Monday or Tuesday (when my husband comes home), and finally decided on today. I fgured better not to have to go traisping off to get Chester while my husband is (hopefully) arriving home.

I screwed up. I have a dentist’s appointment tomorrow, and it would have made both of our lives easier if I had him daycare tomorrow. Especially since it’s supposed to rain. Hopefully it will hold up until after our walk, so I can tire him out before leaving.

Tonight I decided to do some training with Chester in the crate before giving him his kong. That went very well.

But after I let him out, after he finished his kong, instead of wanting to settle down, he was suddenly full of energy. He jumped up on the couch univited, so I told him “off” which he readily complied with. Then I wanted him to do a puppy pushup, but he refused to down. I don’t understand it, as it he was happily doing downs in his crate just 40 minutes before.

It didn’t seem like adolescence selective hearing, though, he actually seemed scared of me. I’ve no idea why. I’m afraid I got very angry with him, which I know only makes things worse, but sometimes you do things you know aren’t helping because you just can’t seem to help yourself.

I knew he seemed frightened for some inexplicable reason, yet I also know you’re never supposed to give a command you can’t follow through on, and he absolutely refused to do it. It was really very odd; he does downs all the time.

We will both be glad to see Daddy tomorrow, only Daddy’s going to be exhausted (assuming he gets in through the predicted thunderstorms.

Unless he does it tonight, the entire time my husband’s been gone Chester hasn’t pooped at “last call”, as I call it. He usually pooped for the last time somewhere between 6 and 7 pm, so he’s holding it for 12 hours overnight. Of course, he was also on antibiotics almost the entire time.

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