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*knocking on wood*
sumo has been sleeping through the nights and not requesting his usual 3AM pee break! he's actually reluctant and 1/2 asleep in the morning when we get up to give the doggies their morning walk.

the doggies also both finally got their "matching collars". up until now, sumo's neck/head have been too small. we still walk him with the harness, but the collar at it's smallest setting would have just popped right off. since their heads are more narrow than their necks, we had to get the slip style: http://www.silverfoot.com/store.php?crn=228&PHPSESSID=c7bc3de89eefd38ecffa1dd96e4ce7c6

we've started noticing that chibi has a difficult time relaxing around the house unless everybody is at home. when one or more of the family is gone, she paces more, will sit at the top of the couch looking at the door, waits at the hall entrance by the garage, and has frequent reqests to go outside in the back to look for us.