Must... stay... strong...

I guess the novelty and the "unconditional omg you're so freakin cute you could never do anything wrong" is slowly starting to wear off. Don't get me wrong, I'm not sick of Derby and no way do I want to get rid of him, but maaaaaaaaaan this week has been rough. Here's a brief rundown of the two worst days:

Monday - Derby came to work with me as he did last week, but over the weekend he forgot everything we had established about where to go potty at work. Needless to say, we had several accidents in the office. Then monday night Tritia and I had to go to a concert we bought tickets for ages ago. (btw, we saw Lupe Fiasco, Pharrell, Rihanna, and Kanye West at the Nokia Theatre... amazing amazing show)

So Derby was left at home alone in the fort, or so we thought. Turns out he escaped the fort by jumping up on the couch, climbing onto the coffee table, and jumping down. So we came home to a tired roommate who had to stay up to watch the dog (since there was no longer a confined space to trap him in), a peepee on the stairs, and a poopie in the computer room. nice.

Tuesday - Worst day ever... Derby was still being horrible at work and had a few more accidents. Then when I took him outside to potty he bolted around the side of the building to explore. He wasn't trying to get away but he wanted to check out the unseen area. I had to chase him down and yell at him and grab him before something bad happened. This freaked me out enough that I decided I could no longer let him outside at work without a leash. In addition to all of this Derby was biting really hard... they are play bites, or possibly excitement bites, but he needs to learn that he can't bite that hard... just one more thing to work on. Tuesday was so tiring and stressful that I had to just give Derby to Tritia when I got home from work and took a long time out.

Anyhow, things are looking up the last couple of days... still having a few accidents but things are back on the improvement track. I don't want to focus completely on negatives so I will say that he's doing better. He has "sit" and "down" understood pretty well. He's also showing improvement on his "fetch" and "drop it" commands. He still hates his leash, but at least he'll walk with it on now, and he still bites too much but it seems that he's not biting as hard.

Overall, he's still super cute and I love him to death... but man is this tough. Must... stay... strong...