Our First Sunday with Walker

Walker loves sleeping in our room on a dog bed - just like our other two hounds, Truly and Maggie.  He slept there all night.  He had his breakfast in the kitchen with them about 7:30 this morning.  He no longer cares to eat seperate from them (in his crate), in fact, he doesn't care to have anything to do with his crate any more.

We were supposed to have a quiet day today.  I thought everyone would be home all day.  It didn't quite work out like that.  Sawyer had someone pick her up for a movie.  I had several errands and so did Tim.  Friends came over unexpectedly.  There was vacuuming, lawn mowing, and leaf blowing.  We were in and out of the house all day long.  Walker seemed to be curious about all of the activity.  He was not overly frightened.  He watched us carefully, at a distance.

When my dog-savy friend came over, he observed her for a while.  We were very surprised when he walked right over to her while she was sitting on the sofa.  He let her pet him, then he'd walk away, and then come right back again.  Then he went and layed down on his favorite pillow and watched us for the rest of her visit.

When it was dinnertime, he ate in the kitchen again.  He went outside with Truly and Maggie with no problem.  Most importantly, once he finished his business, he came right up the deck stairs and across the deck and right straight in the door with no problem at all!  He's not wearing his harness any more.  Yay!

There's been a lot of rain today so I still don't have good outside photos of Walker.  I do have this video of him with Sawyer taken yesterday.  The video quality isn't great but you can see how good he is with her -