My mom's rat terrier wanted "Good-girl" props for about year after she was housebroken. She'd get disappointed if you forgot.
You know, it's funny. We went to war never looking to come back, but it's the real world I couldn't survive.
Tracy ,'The Message'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
erikaj - Feb 28, 2013 12:39:14 pm PST #26813 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
le nubian - Feb 28, 2013 1:10:35 pm PST #26814 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
sumi,
how is your housing situation? I have been thinking about you.
Glamcookie - Feb 28, 2013 2:13:03 pm PST #26815 of 30001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I used to love dogs, but the disgusting people who live in my area and NEVER pick up after their dogs has really turned me off of them. I realize I'm going to have two sons and realistically they are going to want a dog and we will probably give in at some point, but right now? NO DOGS! I'm pretty iffy on the cats at the moment, too. #crankymama
omnis_audis - Feb 28, 2013 2:20:53 pm PST #26816 of 30001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Hey, I'm a guy, and I prefer cats. Just saying. Not a total gender thing... (Although, NoiseDesign has said in the past, sometimes I am like a 14 year old girl, or something like that...so... not exactly Mr. Masculine).
Hil R. - Feb 28, 2013 2:50:29 pm PST #26817 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm not sure what to do. I'm sure she has to poop again, because she ate a few hours ago, but she's half-asleep in her playpen and won't come out. I'm worried that, if she doesn't do it now, then she'll poop in the middle of the night again, but I don't know how to make her do it now if she doesn't want to.
Dana - Feb 28, 2013 2:53:18 pm PST #26818 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Personally, I would pick her up and she would go outside whether she was interested or not, but I am only dog-adjacent, not an owner.
If possible, and when you have time, you probably want to try to get on a schedule. My parents' dog goes out in the morning and then gets fed. She goes out in the afternoon and then gets fed. (And goes out as necessary during the day.) She knows the schedule as well as anyone, and will sometimes try to con people into believing that it's time for her to eat, since she just went outside.
Hil R. - Feb 28, 2013 2:59:47 pm PST #26819 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Personally, I would pick her up and she would go outside whether she was interested or not, but I am only dog-adjacent, not an owner.
She doesn't really associate "outside" with "bathroom" yet. When I've tried that earlier today, she just watched some cars for a while until she was shivering so badly that I brought her inside. I tried putting her on a pee pad, but nothing happened.
brenda m - Feb 28, 2013 3:02:51 pm PST #26820 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Personally, I would pick her up and she would go outside whether she was interested or not, but I am only dog-adjacent, not an owner.
I think that sounds right. If she doesn't go, then right when you come back in is the time to watch her closely and snatch her back up if she starts to squat or circle.
amych - Feb 28, 2013 3:26:23 pm PST #26821 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Yep. Scoop her up and take her out before bed, after she wakes up, right before and after eating... basically any time there's a remote chance she might need it. Even though she's not a puppy, treat her as if she were for housetraining purposes -- in other words, it's better to assume she *does* have to go than to assume she doesn't.
And I'm not sure if you're crate training her, but it's seriously your best friend in housetraining -- a playpen is way too much room for right now; crate her whenever you're not around to supervise and you can move her back up to the playpen as she starts to get a clue.
smonster - Feb 28, 2013 3:38:54 pm PST #26822 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Does she like to walk? Because exercise will prompt pooping.