HAIRY PAWTER (GIZMO)

Gizmo is doing great.  He didn’t really seem to acknowledge his name so we changed it to Hairy Pawter and he now comes to “Hairy.” He lets us do just about anything to him, brush him, clip his nails, bathe him, and brush his teeth.  My youngest loves it that he’ll hang out by her while she plays with her dolls on the odd chance he might get petted.  We’ve found he is a little food aggressive but we’re working on that and he is fine with the cats as long as they don’t want to be petted by the humans.  Then he gets angry and jealous.  We also discovered that he really didn’t know what to do with stairs.  He now climbs up them but still struggles going down.  

Hairy loves to be outside exploring and tries not to miss an opportunity to go on car rides.  Where our one dachshund likes to go along and just be near us, Hairy wants to be held to see out the window.  We had bought him a bed for our room but he preferred sleeping in the closet, we moved the bed in there and after a few days he actually slept in the bed rather than beside it.  Ha!

Other than that all is well.  I think he and our other pets have adjusted well.