Happy Treats Update

So the verdict is... success! At least for now...

When we first started this whole deal, it was so traumatic for them to go from 10 Happy Treats all the way down to 9 Happy Treats. "Please Mom, let me have it back! I need to have all 10!" And sometimes that would result in another crying session, and another HT being taken away. But after a couple of days, they figured it out. They can go from the fast pre-cry breathing to a forced smile in no time flat now. It's interesting to see their personalities come out, too. Cloudburst, who had the bigger problem with unnecessary tears to start with, is much more motivated by losing a HT. If Sunshine gets upset enough, there's no reasoning with him and he doesn't care about anything. But Sunshine has started to figure out that 8 or 9 Happy Treats are still a lot. So no big deal to lose one or two... so we may be lowering the "start value" next week. We'll see. It's definitely a work in progress!