wombat is back!

before work yesterday morning zac went to get wombat and bring her back home. she's had a really good 24hrs with us. i went into work late so i could settle her in before leaving. i worked on "sit" a bit more (the one command she kinda knows) and "stay" (she's getting the hang of it). i tried to tire her out before i left for work by playing in the backyard and tried to show her that we'll leave her in the yard but we'll always come back. i think she had a good day while i was gone for 5.5 hrs (everything was exactly how i left it-- even her rope toy hadn't moved from the spot at the back of the yard. i think she spent the time sleeping and searching for the tennis ball she had before i left-- i took it cuz it was chewed up)
when zac got home we took her for a walk. that was a bit of an effort. she has NO concept of the word "heel" yet and spends the ENTIRE walk choking herself (we haven't actually used her choker on her to walk yet). she doesn't even know the word "walk" yet. i looked up a few sites on training a dog to heel and it shouldn't take too long for her to learn (just a lot of persistance and we need to decide which method we're gonna use).
here's our tired dog waiting for us to go to bed so she can have some peace:
she had a good nite sleep and stayed on her bed the entire night (zac insisted on wrapping her up in her blanket). last time she spent the nite she knew something was really wrong and was quite nervous. she eneded up sleeping in zacs dirty laundry next to the bed and then after zac's alarm went off the next morning she jumped on the bed and was shivering a bit (i think nervous shiver cuz it wasn't cold). this time she stayed on her bed thru zac's 3 alarms and didn't get up until zac got up (then came to greet me with some very wet dog kisses and a lot of jumping in the bed).
there's a fenced in area (we think it is specifically a dog run) down the road that i think i may take her to this morning to play some fetch (its just a matter of getting her there without choking her to death). or i might just take her across the road to the park to do a session on heeling.