[yavenay]

At night Brandi and I have our little routine, she jumps in the bed and watches tv or goes to sleep while I take a shower. She usually stays there until she has to go potty which is usually around 12. She goes potty (potty pad trained)and then comes back up to bed and goes back to sleep for the rest of the night.

Lately the last few nights she has been in a very playful kind of mood. First she wants me to follow her downstairs, which creeps me out because now I'm thinking someone is in the house. So I follow her downstairs only to figure out that she wants to play. When I call her name she comes running towards me that when I reach out for she takes off running again, stop to see if I'm chasing her and then starts running again. What is this behavior all about? What is she trying to tell me? After about 10 minutes of this she eventually runs upstairs and is ready to go to sleep.

Now she has been doing this since Sunday, it's like we are starting a new routine. I don't mind but I do know subtle changes in behavior can be a sign that something is wrong. I'm just not sure if an increase in energy could ever be a bad thing especially since it's not the norm for her. It could be just pent up energy, since the weather has gotten cooler and it gets darker earlier, I don't take her out for walks as often or as long as I usually do when the weather is warmer. I've had her for 4 yrs and she has never had pent up energy. She does not believe in over exerting herself. Who knows what's going through her silly little head.