Puppy o'clock ...

... 6:05am to be precise! 

For a little person, Miss Ivy can certainly make a noise at night.  Like any puppy, she doesn't like to be left on her own at bedtime and she howled on and off until about 2:30am.  Then it all went quiet and I was about to finally relax and get some sleep when I heard little footsteps on the landing and then they came into our room!  Somehow, she had managed to slip the lower bolt on her crate and, because we hadn't shut the child gate in the kitchen (not imagining she'd get out of her crate) she had come upstairs! 

We took her back downstairs and quickly out to do her business, and then put her back to bed where she howled again for a little bit.  At 6:00am I heard her barking so we came down to let her out, which is what she wanted, bless her.  She's pretty well house trained already. 

This is the early morning mist in the valley.  It's lovely to be up at that time if you have to be I suppose but today we both feel as if we have jet lag!  Mr Sk has fixed up a little device so that tonight she won't be able to get out again  It's essential that puppies learn to be on their own from an early age otherwise you make a rod for your own back, as my mother used to say!