Well it is very likely that you are all exhausted after your first day together. In our case we didn’t actually get Fig home until it was about 6pm.

After his initial potty training we let him roam around the house and explore. We have a pet hamster which we decided not to introduce the dog to on his first evening (I’ll tell you how that went in another post).

Whilst he explored the house being shadowed at a distance by my daughters I prepared his and our food. I gave him the same brand of food that he had been fed at the dog shelter, that night, so as not to cause any stomach upsets and then we all settled down into our usual routine of work, homework, watching tv liberally sprinkled with episodes of walking the dog every hour or whenever he showed signs of wanting to go to the toilet.

We all went to bed at our usual times, with a little trouble I find it’s not easy to get kids to bed with a new pet in the house even if they are teenagers, I settled the dog down in his basket just before I went to bed and we all settled in for the night.

Fig roamed around a little after we had gone to be, I could hear him, but he settled down soon enough. There were a couple of accidents awaiting me by the morning but that was to be expected as we were not in a routine as yet.