He's the dog's version of Houdini

The last 24 hours have been a CHALLENGE! Our House Cleaner was GREAT! She really liked Hank so he got to hangout inside all day with Janine and laid around and slept. The vet said that between the neuter & the Kennel Cough, Hank has to lay low, and should only go outside to use the bathroom. So, we laid low last night, watched TV, had a good rub down, and went to bed about 10. Well, Jeremiah & I got in bed about 10. Hank, decided he'd slept enough for the day and was now ready to play. Not only did he attack his bed, thinking something was wrong, which was WEIRD! He just wouldn't calm down for bed! We turned off the lights to sleep, and he'd put his feet on the bed to sniff us out and play. he was SUCH A PAIN IN THE ASS! We were really irritated. I dozed off for about an hour about midnight, and back up for about two hours at 1 AM. I took him out to go potty, at 2:3o, Jeremiah took him out and ran him up and down the hill and then we finally went to bed. And we both had early morning, so we got about 3 hours of an angry nap.

We tried the Garage, and he barked too loudly for 1 AM, and with the neighbors. Oh yeah, and if the garage door to the house is unlocked, he can open it...about 1:30, Jeremiah went downstairs to get him out, and he was standing at the bottom of the stairs, proud he'd just figured out how to do it. It was an AWFUL night, we were NOT having it!

Jeremiah put Hank in the garage this morning since that was our plan for the day. He barked, and barked, and barked. And scratched at the door a lot. So, when Jeremiah left about 6:15 this morning, I decided to keep my ears on the door. By 6:30, I decided he needs to come in for the day. I put a sheet on Jeremiah's chair that Hank likes to look out the window from, and just PRAY the day goes smoothly.

The whole drive home tonight I was in terror that he'd finally lose it and the house would be in shambles. I came home, looked in the window, and the couch looked fine, I look over and saw Hank had heard me and had been quietly sitting on Jeremiah's chair and came right over to greet me. The house looked FINE! It was so weird! So, I guess Hank will be an inside dog. HE really likes to be able to see outside.

So, forget the no exercising. Jeremiah and Hank played with the tennis balls tonight, (yes, inside the house) and then we took about a half hour walk, tonight, and he's laying on the floor passed out, hopefully he continues through the night!

So that puts it at this:

Hank 3
baby gate 0
wire crate 0
garage door unlocked 0