How think must these walls be?

Bless my soul, puppies cry and whine loud at night. Or so I thought.

There we were, the first night, ready to go to bed nice and early and we say to ourselves that Georgie will have to sleep in the hall. Literally seconds after we had closed the door to our bedroom she started whining and we thought to ourselves "that isn't that bad." She only got louder.

She started howling and scratching at the door. I must confess we only lasted 15 minutes. I went out, didn't give her any love just stood there to make sure she knew we were still there and she ran to my feet and laid down over my feet. Luckily I have a heart of stone because otherwise I would have been like butter in her paws.

So I left her in the hall and went back to bed. Yes! She stayed quite. Well for the time being. I therefore fell asleep but was awoken about an hour later by what I can be described as an impressive amount of noise from such a small dog. The situation was really concerning me. Not the dog but annoying the neighbours, I was sure I heard someone knock on a wall somewhere to signal to us to be quiet. So we let her in, she slept on a pillow on the floor at the foot of our bed and not a sound all night.

So the next evening I wanted to apologise to the neighbours and explain we have a dog, she is new, noisy for a bit bla bla bla. But the only ones who were in were a family with a baby and a child directly below us. They said that they had heard nothing and they then started apologising to us for any noise their baby make. I replied we hadn't heard a thing. Yet when I was walking down the stairs yesterday I heard said baby crying away as they do (very audible in the stairwell), but I had heard none of it in the flat. Same thing happened with the flat directly next to us: they heard nothing. Ergo sound travels through the doors but nothing penetrates these walls.

So it's ear plugs in tonight. Obviously it might be obvious to ask why can't she just sleep in the bedroom. Well from the second night she starting trying to jump up onto the bed, which seeing that she can't reach it is very annoying because she gets her paws onto the bed, whines and pulls the sheets a bit. We did keep pushing her away but she only stopped when she got tired. And it will not be very long until she can just jump straight up.

An addition to the house hold - Georgie

So some of you might have seen from my Facebook status that Sophie and I have a dog.

She is a black cocker and is 2 months old (DOB 3/4/11). We have called her Georgie (couldn't call her Patrick, David or Andrew0. We bought her in the market this morning.

You can find some more pictures of her on Facebook if you want. Obviously we will be uploading more as she gets older.

She currently feels very happy in the hall with her bed under my desk. But she is slowly but surely exploring the rest of the flat. I am so glad that I'm not doing this on my own because soph seems to know all those things that need to be done to train a puppy. Simple things like getting her urinate on paper and she seems (more or less) to piss there now.

Obviously she has been whining a bit but it is imperative that one doesn't pander to her complaining. Sophie has warned me that tonight is going to be brutal because she will almost certainly be crying in the hall way but that the best thing that we can do is to leave her.

Just now she has downed her whole bowl of water is looks like she is really bloated, evidently she doesn't know how to pace herself. This is going to be a huge learning curve.