Another happy visit to Gigi yesterday!

And the great thing about it is that Ken decided to allow Gigi to just run around and play however she wanted to so I could see how much she has changed in that way.  And wow!! . . . she sure has!   First she came over to say "hello" to me and let me pet her without jumping up or licking me, then she went running around the yard checking EVERYTHING out.

 

 

 

Eventually, she decided to haul 3 or 4 bones over and lay down next to me.  What a sweetie!

What a sweetheart, huh?



 

 

 

 

After a while, Ken decided to show me how well she does with leaving treats on the ground in front of her until he says she can have them.

 

He tells her to "sit" then drops the treat on the ground right in front of her.
She just sits there until he tells her it's okay to eat it!  Amazing!

After a while, she got tired and just laid down and didn't
even bother to pick up the treat when he told her she could,
so he leaned down and picked it up and gave it to her directly.

 

 

And then he turned out one of his Rottweilers that she LOVES playing with. 

 

He's a fully-grown male, but he put up with all of her horrendous harassment -- running after him and jumping all over him -- EXCEPT when she tried to take a bone away from him.  Then he growled really loudly at her, she immediately backed off!  Bright girl!



She's thinking "uh-oh -- better leave him alone!"  . 
(But he never did actually even snap at her --
he just let her know she needed to calm down.) 



 

I spent an hour there and she was just wonderful the whole time!   Then when I got ready to leave, Ken walked over to her pen and she followed him along, perfectly happy to go back in there.  Hey, THAT is great.  I'm really glad she's not unhappy about where she is out there.  (But I sure hope she'll be happy to come home eventually!)



 

 

I took one of her giant bowls out there, as well as 20 cans of the canned food she loves to have mixed into her dry food.  Ken is going to fill the underneath portion of the bowl with concrete so she won't be able to move it (he thinks), then he will mix that canned stuff into her dry food.  I hope she'll gain some weight that way.  She does look a bit thin right now.  Ken says he thinks she's behaving as if she's about to come into heat, but 9 months really is a bit young for that for a large-breed dog.  But we'll see, I guess.  Once she does I'm going to have her spayed, but not until it happens once.