Our first week with Journey

Our first week as Journey's foster family has been fun and interesting. We first had to teach him all about stairs! At first, we literally had to place each paw in position, one at a time (that's four paw moves per stair!). But Journey is a brave boy and he is now a pro at going up and down the deck and carpeted stairs to the basement. The hardwood stairs up to the bedrooms are still a challenge, but he is getting it and gets better all the time. Journey was also leery of the hardwood flooring in the house at first, but once he figured out that going slowly was better than trying to run (presumably to get off the scary floor faster) he is conquering that fear too. Our greyhound, Finn, and Journey are getting along fine. Journey would love for Finn to play with him and he has shown us a really silly and fun side of his personality, trying to get Finn to be silly too. Today is Journey's first day to be off-lead in the fenced backyard (now he's all healed up from his neutering last week). He loves to be outside and seems fascinated by every sight, sound and smell! Here are two videos we took today; one shows how well he is doing on the deck stairs.