Recap of the Past Month

Yes, I know with the exception of the post earlier today, it's been about two weeks since I last posted, but I'm way behind in posts: Kairo's surgery was on September 23 - almost a month ago.  Not too much has happened around here, but there are a few updates worth mentioning:

Kairo's Dog Bed
In hopes that Kairo would like his dog bed more than our human bed, we finally broke down and spent some money on a decent dog bed with bumpers since our pampered pup likes luxury.  After only wanting to eat the bed for a few weeks...

...he has started to occasionally lay in it in the living room, which is a good start.  He still prefers to be in our bed at night, though, which wouldn't be a problem if he liked laying at the end of the bed.  No, no, no, he likes to be right up at our heads sharing our pillow.  Sometimes he'll even lay his head across our necks.  Like I said, he's spoiled.  

G$'s Birthday
A special someone had a birthday at the beginning of the month.  We got together at his parents' house with his sister, brother-in-law, nephew, best friend, and best friend's wife.

 
G$ wasn't the only lucky boy that day, thanks to Kate, Dan, and Jack, Kairo celebrated his 6 month (yes, HALF A YEAR!) birthday a few weeks early with:
A Cupcake (dog friendly of course):

And a birthday sweater (hand knitted wool with a monkey ):

Kairo's Window Watching
About two weeks ago, Kairo realized that those big glass things in our living room were windows and (gasp) you can see out of them!  He was first drawn to the TV reflection in them, but once he got closer, he saw the people outside below us.  I'm not sure his depth perception is that great though.  Even though were were five stories up, he started doing a low, deep bark at the people down there.  Greeeeaaaat!  

London and Paris Oh My
Next Wednesday (as in in less than a week!), G$ and I leave for a one year anniversary trip to... you guessed it, London and Paris.  We only booked about a month ago after nailing down what we were going to do with Kairo.  So it's really crept up on us!  And by crept up on us, I mean the three weeks has really flown by with little to no trip planning.  We have our flights, hotels, train between cities, and airport to hotel transportation, but still have not quite hammered down what we want to do in each city and on which days.  We are officially going to be winging it.  And G$ knows how much I loooove to do that!  [sarcasm in case you missed it] :)

So what are we doing with Kairo, you ask?!  He will be attending a two-week board and train program at Greenbriar Veterinary Hospital and Luxury Pet Resort.  Doesn't that just sound fancy pantsy!?  I think I'm just telling myself that since I'm going to be so upset when we drop him off THIS SATURDAY!  That's right ladies and gents, G$ and I are going to be Kairo-free for two full weeks starting Saturday.  Not that it's going to seem like two weeks with a "fun run" scheduled for Sunday (more on that after we finish it), three days of work (or two for me plus a work golf tournament), before flying out next Wednesday night.  We are getting back the following Wednesday, taking Thursday off to recover, working on Friday, then it's time to pick up the K-Man on Saturday! 

More about the training:  It's an off-leash basic obedience class where he will learn the basics (which will be reinforcing sit, down, come), teaching him to heel on a leash (hurray!), stay, go to his "place," which is his bed/crate (we are very excited about this one for when someone comes to the door or when we are eating dinner).  For the past week or two, we've been going outside during "Party Time" with treats and randomly telling Kairo to Come.  I'd say he's coming about 80% of the time (what do you think G$?).  So we are hoping that this training will help make that more like 99%, so he'll come when he's playing with the other dogs.  That's what he's usually doing during that 20% he doesn't come. 
 
I will hopefully be back on early next week with a recap of the "fun run" and then again after the trip with pictures and more info on how Kairo handled the two weeks of training.

<3
K$