Nov. 16 afternoon:

So I didn’t wait for him to ask but so far so good. After I posted the last entry, I watched some tv and read, and then around noon, I decided I had to have some sleep. Rather than the couch (which is actually a love seat and even though I am small, I can’t stretch out on it), I went upstairs. Rocky was still on Uma’s couch and looked quite comfortable there. I lay down on the bed and closed my eyes. Rocky then got off the couch and came over to see what I was doing. He has seen one or the other of us in bed in the mornings, depending on who lets him out of his crate first but he hasn’t experienced us really sleeping there at night. I asked him to go lie down and he actually left me and went back to the couch and settled down. We then proceeded to sleep for about an hour! I think I got up first and then he followed me. We went downstairs and I decided he really should go out, as he hadn’t been out for even a pee since about 9:30. I put on my coat and we went for a short walk around the hood and just before we got home, he had a really big poop. We called Uma an “opportunist” because, while she would poop on schedule, she would also poop whenever, given the chance. Maybe all dogs do that. So all’s well in the house-training department anyway, even if I am not well in the virus department.