Thanks April, I will be getting an appointment soon as she needs her nails done anyways. I normally can handle that but she's grown so much that her nails are a bit too tough for my own nail trimmers to deal with lately. Thank goodness she has pure white nails so they are super easy to do. I'll have the groomer give me some advice on weekly coat care for her as groomer visits every week would be way out of my current budget.

Funny thing with this dog. I've never seen one do it before. She has a specific "I have to pee bark". She looks you dead in the eye and woofs a soft "ooooowwwwwwwwtttt" sound. I swear I know it sounds nuts, but this dog says "out". Then if you don't get the point, she walks to the door, comes back and repeats her "ooooowwwwwwtttt" bark. She's always done this so I assume she learned it before we adopted her. It's totally unlike her play barks or her "somebody is walking by my house" type of bark. It's cute as heck but very unusual.