More about Tommy

We got Tommy at the end of June when he was almost two months old. He came from a respectable breeder but, unfortunately, he came with Coccydia and Giardia. We had a hell of a time getting him healthy and these issues definitely slowed down his housebreaking. He's better now and he's happy. He still has issues with housebreaking but we were ready for this as we both work during the day so poor Tommy isn't getting very consistent housebreaking patterns from us. But he'll get there eventually, it's just going to take a little extra time. He has learned to lay down! And he has learned to stay when he lays down until we give him permission to go to his food bowl so he's a very smart puppy!
Tommy starts puppy training classes next week to help get him socialized around other dogs and people. We don't want him barking at every dog and human that he sees. We also don't want him barking at the other dogs in our backyard barking extravaganza (just a lot of backyard fences meeting and family dogs barking at each other through the fences).
He doesn't care one twit about riding in a car. He just falls asleep in his crate until we get to our destination so he could be in a car or not. Whatever, it makes no difference to him.
He loves Kosher, the mouse puppet. Or, rather, he hates the mouse puppet as he does his best to rip it apart. He loves le chat his furry stuffed cat. He sleeps with it. He wants to play with our two cats, Simon and Natasha but Natasha runs away to the safety of upstairs and Simon retreats to the stairs where Tommy can't get to him. Simon would like to play too, I think, but they just don't know how to play with each other. Tommy wants to wrestle and Simon wants to stalk.
So, there's the background on the puppy. More to come later :)