Day 31 (Tuesday - back to work):
Finster has developed an annoying habit since I went on my trip. Now he barks in his crate if no one is in the basement with him. I'm not sure how/why this happened. It's difficult to correct because when I am ready for work I can't wait for him to stop barking to leave and when I go down there to get him out he stops barking, and probably thinks that the barking is working. Finster is now retrieving stuff from across the yard. Before he would only retrieve stuff in the basement, or outside if a ball was thrown only a few feet away. Now I can throw balls the length of the yard (about 300 feet) and he will retrieve them :). Today was a pretty typical work day. Afterwards we went to Petsmart and Finster got to go in for the first time. He loved it in there, he got to sniff everything and he got attention from most of the people in the store. He was in his glory.