I took her into work with me for part of the day and she loved it! All these people to love her. She couldn't get enough. She is so calm and quiet that she surprises people when she walks right up to them for love. It must have been a lot of excitement because that combined with her new filling diet made her get very gassy. We slipped out a little early.

Sapphy cockroaching...quite the lady

A personality is really starting to emerge. Especially a sense of humor. She'll roll over and off stuff but make sure I'm watching the whole time. I have been going to work but keeping it under 8 hours and coming home at lunch. She seems to be doing really well. I wait for a while when I leave and when I come back I listen and there is no howling. But she moves stuff. She doesn't chew anything (with the exception of newspaper, she likes to shred that) or damage anything, but she moves it around. When I come home from work I usually find my pajamas in one room, a sock in the hall. My pillow from the bed on the couch, a photo album that was in one room in front of the door. One day she pulled something from a moving box I have yet to unpack, unwrapped the candle holder and candle, didn't do anything to them, but shredded the newspaper like confetti. Terrific dexterity! She is a very busy girl while I'm gone. We have been going to the company softball games at night. She loves them. But it is a little hard for her to watch all those people running around and not join them. Fortunately there are a lot of people

standing around that will give her love. That is her favorite activity. We also found the nearby dog park and she has made a couple friends. The night we went to the dog park and she ran around with the other dogs I finally saw her smile. It was good to see her come galloping up to me with her tongue hanging out and a goofy grin across her face.

She still has running dreams most times when she sleeps (I have to be really careful those legs aren't up by my head at night!) but sometimes she has bad dreams. I can tell they are bad dreams by the way she is crying in her sleep. She whines now and then when she is awake, but what she is doing during these dreams is crying. I have always read you aren't supposed to touch a dreaming dog, they might get confused and bite, but I can't keep from touching her and talking to her when she is dreaming like this. I hope whatever is making her cry in the dream is getting replaced with new, good stuff. So I coo to her very quietly and scratch her rump. She quiets down pretty quick. I heard a dog trainer the other day on TV say something I need to keep in mind, "don't try to make up for their past." I can only make her present day life good, she doesn't know her past life was "bad." She just probably knows she prefers now. So I try not to let these bad dreams eat at me. Sapphy is safe now, and happy.