It's been a couple of weeks, which is an eternity in Maggie-world.

First, the bed. She LOVES the new bed. She laid on it right away, but it took a couple of days for her to really figure it out and get comfy. She now zonks out on that bed like you wouldn't believe. We thought she was adorable while sleeping on her old pad. That was nothing compared to her on the new bed. Even on the bed every time we think that's as cute as it can get, she finds another pose to entertain us.

She's figured out that she can rest her head up on the bolster around the sides and back. When she's not doing that she likes hanging her head completely off of the front. Other times she just sprawls out and takes up the entire bed. I'm sure she never dreamed of having it so good.

We'd gotten her used to coming over to the couch and sitting by us. On her pad she always gave us "the look" that we interpreted as her wanting to come over here, but waiting to be called... so we'd call and she'd run over here; often before we even got more than one syllable out of our mouths.

With the bed, that's changed. Suddenly laying on the area rug by the couch is slumming it. If we call her like 10 times and really insist she'll come over here, while making sure we know that she doesn't really want to be here. And she can't get back to her bed fast enough when we tell her to go.

Maggie continues to go to doggie daycare or "school" as we call it. In general she's going twice a week now. It's ridiculous how much she loves school and has changed - at least while there. They have a web cam so I can occasionally check in on her. The first few weeks, I generally would only see the back of Maggie's head, sitting in the corner in front of the web cam. Now, she's prancing around, sniffing all the dogs, her tail way up high and wagging. She's so happy.

The people working there are awesome, totally love Maggie and have noticed a huge change in her as well. They say she plays with the dogs outside now (I can't see that on the web cam). One of the days that she goes, her pal George is there. George is very nice to Maggie and I think showed her the ropes. Often when I check-in on the web cam George is lying down next to Mags. On one occasion I'd see George go play with some other dogs, check back in and sniff Mags, go play some more and then come lay down next to her.

One of the best parts for us is that Maggie now will get excited when she sees us. When we go to pick her up, she can see us in the window and will start running around and jumping up on the gate. That's right - Maggie, jumping. We about died the first time we saw it. She even jumped over some other dogs to make sure everyone knew it was her turn to leave and that her mom and dad were there to pick her up.

She's a total spaz when we walk out of there and take her for a quick walk before getting in the car. Suddenly she's Speed Racer and can't walk fast enough. She also appears drunk as she can't walk anywhere close to a straight line. We walk her now before getting in the car because, to our knowledge, she has yet to "get busy" while at school. At first we didn't do this, but we got a few blocks away and Maggie started whining. Yep - whining. That's the one and only time she's ever done that. So we immediately pulled over, she went, and now that's part of the standard operating procedure.

I think the other change around here is that we're bringing Maggie in on the leash now from her walks. Normally we'd take her off leash in the yard, she'd run up on the deck, and then we'd tell her to "go to her spot". The problem with that was that Maggie was a genius about going to her spot very quickly when it was first thing in the morning (breakfast was about to be served) or her after-work walk (dinner was about to be served). The other times (leaving for work and the last walk of the night before bed) Maggie would act like she had no clue what her spot was and frankly often looked like she didn't know who we were or wasn't convinced that this was her house (seriously, at bedtime she'd always sniff the door frame and look all around like it was her first time here).

So, we've started keeping her on the leash and walking her in the house. That's easier said than done, but after about a week and a half of that, it seems to be paying dividends. Last night was the first night that she walked in at bedtime on the leash willingly. Previous nights I had to eventually pull her in, but we think (hope) she's getting it.

Speaking of nighttime walks, it's about time for hers tonight - although from the looks of it she's dreaming (her little paws are going) in her bed.