This started out as just a Month 3 update, but after DragonCon madness, it's also covering Month 4 now. We'll be catching up now that 32 Days is behind us as well. As I write the first draft of this post, Kora is now seven months old and about sixty pounds! Not only are the puppy teeth all gone, but someone's bulking up--her neck grew out of her little collar literally overnight. Since she's been better about jumping on furniture and chewing in her supervised area, we're trying to let her have freer reign in the house. The ottoman in the library has been gnawed upon a tiny bit, and moving the bells from the hall door to the front door somehow set us back a few times with the housetraining for a couple of days, but overall she has done really well with her newfound freedom. She's morphing from a willfull toddler into a willfull teenager, it would seem sometimes. If she feels she's not getting enough attention, she will find something she knows she's not supposed to have and runs off with it, making sure one of us is watching. Usually it's a shoe. She never chews on them, she just takes them, then finds one of us and runs. It's as if she's saying, "I'm being bad! Don't you want to chase me?" If she doesn't drop it when I tell her, I hold one of her kibble-filled toys or her current favorite toy hostage until she gives it up.

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