No love for Karma today

No one visited with Karma today. The person that wanted to meet Karma yesterday didn't come back today to setup a meet and greet with their dog. Perhaps tomorrow. He seemed to really like her, but not sure whether the dog they previously adopted from the shelter is a good match for Karma or not. Time will tell.

Much better about getting into the car

Back when I used to do the monthly Petco adoption day,I remember trying to get Karma into the car to take to the adoption day and she was resisting all the way. Even when walking her in the yard at the shelter, she would pull away if walked too closely to the shelter's van. Now that we have gone back and forth to the shelter a lot she seems much more eager to get in the car. When I open the car back, she puts her paws up, but doesn't jump right in. I have to lift her, but that isn't too hard. Just the fact that she isn't pulling away is great.

Chewed window sill

I haven't had a bit of damage from Karma until this morning and even then I have no idea how it happened. We got up early, went for a walk, she was carrying around one of her rawhides and laying down and chewing it. I remember there was a rawhide on the top of the window sill in the room where I was working and I thought her chewing the rawhide was kinda loud, but it wasn't until later that I looked down there after she had left the room for a while and I got out of my chair and I found that she had chewed up the corner of the window sill. It isn't where her rawhide was sitting, so I don't know how it came to pass. Oh well, another little repair to add to the other dog chewed window sills that will soon be repaired.

The camera adds 10 pounds, but Karma adds 52

They say the camera makes you look 10 pounds heavier, but I did a differential weight by picking up Karma and getting on the scale today and she adds 52 pounds to me.

Some lightning, some thunder and a whole lot of pacing/panting

It was stormy last night and Karma was very agitated. I didn't make a big deal over her behavior so as not to reinforce it. It was calm before bed, but during the night it got stormy and she was pacing and panting and crawled under the bed for a while. She really doesn't like loud sounds.

Another week of good Karma

`Things have been going great with Karma. She is a follow you around kind of dog. She will hang out in the room I am in when I am working or watching tv and just lay on her comforter on the floor. If I sit on the floor with her, she is right up on me to get some petting and to lay next to me. She sat in my lap on the floor yesterday to get some extra petting. If the tv volume is too loud and there is any gunfire or other loud noises, she runs to another room, but she is starting to get used to the fact that it is just tv. I left her home for about 9 hours yesterday and still nothing disturbed in the house.

Karma is good on walks with a couple of minor exceptions. Just like Baxter, she will try to take off after any trucks with flat trailers passing in the street. I think it is because the shelter is right next to a uhaul place. She is also shy about walking along the wooden fences where there are barking dogs on the other side that she can't see. We have adjusted our route to miss the long sections like that.