Brought Jaime home on Friday and everything is going really well! We're best friends already, haha. He's gotten VERY attached very quickly. Potty training has been a breeze - we've had a few accidents but we're going 48 hours without any incidents right now.

He really doesn't like his leash, I think because he's afraid of being pulled around and tripping on his gimpy leg, so we work on that a little bit everyday. However, it hasn't been much of an obstacle because he's a natural 'off-leasher.' On potty trips and walks he won't go much more than a foot or two away from me, even if other dogs or people pass! I only do this around my complex though because its mostly vacant and very quiet. 

The only other issue we've been having is crate training...as soon as I leave his sight he starts screaming. Despite everyone's insistence, I've been refusing to crate him at night. He's in his crate all day while I'm at work (I do stop home at lunch) so I feel its unfair to crate him during the evening too, so he sleeps on my bed with me. Though I felt very strange doing it haha, I set up two skype accounts so that I can video call at work and see if he's still making a lot of noise. He seems to quiet down after a couple minutes. 

First vet appointment went great, he got the parvo/distemper vaccine and another round of dewormer. This vet isn't the one that will be doing the amputation but she highly recommended scapular as well so that was a comfort to me. The rescue will not be getting involved with the decision either and has left it up to me. I have a few options right now, which is to do the amputation sooner rather than later and push the neutering off until a later date, or to wait for sixteen weeks and do both at the same time. The vet assured me that, in her opinion, with his size he would do fine with a 4 month neuter. I will be calling the amputation vet and discussing it with them in the near future.