Travelling with Diego

We just took Diego for a solo trip to Houston over the weekend and learned a bit more about his behaviour. One thing, he travels quite nicely and is very quiet in the car even for a 3 hour drive. He hasn't had a pee accident in the house for a couple of weeks now and he didn't in a visiting home either. It did turn out he had an elevated white blood cell count in his urine so a bladder infection may have made him slow to recognize when he needs to go out. But now he'll start to whine and pace nervously when he needs to go out.

Another thing we learned is that he is scared of hats (at least when men are wearing them). We had to board Diego with my brother and his wiener dog over night, so it was good test of how he would do in a strange environment. Diego wouldn't go anywhere near my brother (who wears a hat a lot) and Diego wound up preferring the company of the wiener dog. He even wound up sleeping inside wiener dog's very small (open-door) kennel snuggled up with the wiener dog. Yes, Diego really loves the company of other dogs, much more so than humans sometimes.

So Diego still needs some work on fear/shyness in certain situation but we think he's past some critical junctions on house training and basic obedience. Also, I took him for a three mile run a few days a go and he never pulled the leash (loose leash healed the entire time). Good by Diego!