Day 4 Lumen Meets Ike

Last night Mom, Lumen and I went to one of my favorite places to visit; Ike's house.  I don't pay much attention to Ike but I sure do like his Mom and Dad!  I've talked about Ike before, he is our 'cat tester' for the foster dogs.  I'm not sure he really likes the job, but he does it really well.

Ike also felt it was about time he got his picture on the blog since he's the one that has to put up with all these strange dogs in his house...so here he is.  He sat, not very quietly, on the couch while Lumen came up to check him out.  Lumen went up to Ike and gave him a little sniff.  Ike hissed and gave her a swat (don't worry, he doesn't have claws).  Lumen decided that she had better things to do than be near a cranky cat and she was off the investigate somewhere else.





Lumen really enjoyed the visit.  She waltzed right in like she'd been there a hundred times before, said hello to Ike's Mom with no issues and went to check out the house.  Although, just like at the dog park, Lumen didn't want Ike's Dad to pet her.  She didn't run away from him, but move her head away when he reached out towards her.  Later, she walked over him (he was lying on the carpet) and around him with no problems, but still didn't want him to touch her.  Lumen loves it so much when Mom shows her affection that she still thinks Lumen just needs to spend some time around men who treat her kindly and learn that they are OK too.

As you can see Lumen has mastered sit.  Mom is also working on some other commands like 'off', 'come' and 'shake a paw'.  Today we went to the dog park and Lumen got to go off leash!  This was great because I had someone to run and play with.  Lumen came every time Mom called her back so she's getting pretty good at 'come' too.