Dogs are so wonderful! I'm glad you found one, and things are working out. Collecting your clothes is a very good sign. We had a dog who wouldn't come upstairs for the first year of her life - we had a cat who we think laid down the law pretty early, and the bedroom had been his territory for 8 years. So during the night she'd collect our shoes, and in the morning, all the available shoes (mostly running shoes) would be piled on her bed. She never chewed them, just collected them. Every morning we'd have to sort through Shoe Mountain before we could go to work. We had house guests once, who couldn't find their shoes in the morning. She was such a sweetie!