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As of yet, Sammi is no more potty trained than she was the day we got her. This is more annoying than I can even begin to describe. Our vet has suggested we restrain her in her crate at all times – unless we are paying 100% attention to her. To me, this is more mean than the poop in the hall way is annoying. Instead, I will once more wear a watch. When we had to potty train our boys, We sent them to Potty Boot Camp – or, in layman’s terms, my Mother in Law’s home. The boys each spent a week there during their second summer and came home mostly trained. (I had to wear a watch and remind them to go to the washroom every hour or so.)

I am not sure where my watch is, however, and I suppose we will do as we did with each of the children, and buy me a new watch. One with a timer.

Meh.  You ignored me when I said stop reading, therefore, you are NOT allowed to complain about the blogging of child/pet bathroom habits.

Stop reading here, please.

Good news? I’m done talking about poop. Now I will talk about Butts.

Sammi went in for her second set of shots. Our vet does a complete exam at every appointment, so Sammi had to have her temperature taken. Rectally. One would think that a vets office would have different sizes of thermometers. The do not. They feel that thermometers are one size fits all. They are not. Once again, I was forced to restrain my poor little puppy while she was anally raped.

WHAT?  You were TOLD to stop reading. Sheesh.

In the past month, Sammi has gone from 0.7 lbs to 1.4 lbs,and is now known as Princess Fuzzy Butt. becuase her Butt is Fuzzy. And she is a Princess.

∗ Posted by bluepaintred on 11.15.2008
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Comments: 11

  1. The vet’s right, crate training is the way to go unless you want to take her out ever 30 minutes. That’s why the best time for a puppy is in the spring, by the way..

    Comment by Nobody™ - November 15, 2008 11:33 pm

  2. @Nobody™ – We use her crate at night, and when we go out, but she cries and cries and cries when she is in it and we are at home walking around and having fun. She can hold it all night, so the vet said to start taking her out every 2-3 hours to start and work our way up from there.

    Comment by bluepaintred - November 15, 2008 11:47 pm

  3. all i am going to say or can say is….wow just wow i really ought to learn to listen to the whole stop reading thing when ya say to………just…wow

    Comment by aunty - November 16, 2008 5:41 am

  4. Unfortunately the whole crate training thing falls in line with getting children to go to bed and sleep in their own beds at night. Tough love.

    I have two dogs (one is a 7 month old puppy) and we crate trained them both. Fortunately, we got very lucky and the breeders had already started the process (THANK GOD!) so when we got them they weren’t a pain in the butt to train. One of my previous dogs was though and as much of a pain as it is, it’s best for both of you if you just suffer through it.

    Our puppy will whine in the morning or if we have her in her crate and come home from somewhere. We -never- let her out until she settles down and stops whining.

    The vet is 100% right. If your dog isn’t improving on the housebreaking front you absolutely must do something to get it under control. Crate training is the best way to do this. If you stop taking her out when she whines, she will stop. The only reason she continues it now is because she knows it works.

    If you are totally against it, the only other option you have is to have the puppy on a lead all the time in the house so she can never go out of your sight. That way if/when she does try to pee inside you will catch her in the act and can tell her no etc.

    Leaving her out of the crate to pee on the floor because you think putting her in the crate is cruel is completely counter productive.

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    Comment by Breigh (Canadutch) - November 16, 2008 7:56 am

  5. I agree 100% with what Breigh said.

    Comment by Nobody™ - November 16, 2008 8:41 am

  6. I have always crate trained my dogs, it seems to work for me..( well, not me..I AM NOT CRATE TRAINED…lol..you know what I mean. Anyway….that is the cutest puppy!!! SHe is just gorgeous!!!

    Comment by catch - November 16, 2008 9:58 am

  7. I probably should have listened and stopped reading. Anally raped. Why did I have to read that.

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    Comment by oleblue - November 16, 2008 10:38 am

  8. When I got my dog, she was a year and a half and not potty trained. I just had to watch her constantly, and you can see them get that “look” or start sniffing for a spot. She would start sniffing the dirt in my potted plants.
    Then I would just yell, “Outside! Outside!” and put her out, then I would stand there and say “Go potty! Go Potty!”
    She learned REALLY fast.
    I think the proper way I remember reading somewhere is to, yes, watch your time and keep trying to take them out. When you’re going out the door say “Outside! Outside!” and while you’re out there say, “Go potty! Go potty!” and then praise them when they do.

    Now, even if she doesn’t really have to go, but I’m leaving for a while or whatever, I take her to the door and say “Go potty!” and she’ll go or at least try on command.
    When she is just inside and really has to go, she comes and prances at me, and I say “Outside?” and she runs to the door.

    I’ve never crated a dog, so I don’t know about that, but heard they won’t try to go potty in a crate?

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    Comment by annie - November 16, 2008 3:48 pm

  9. I don’t know about you but dog anal rapage is good blog fodder to me.

    Comment by Robin - November 17, 2008 10:34 am

  10. Just too cute! I haven’t had to housetrain a dog in many many years.

    Comment by Teena in Toronto - November 17, 2008 6:42 pm

  11. When you figure it out, can you let me know what finally worked?? My red heeler (4 months old) puppy is an outside puppy most of the time because we can not get him to stop peeing in the house. We make him pee outside before he comes in and within 5 MINUTES, he is peeing on the floor. UGH!

    And she is quite cute!

    Comment by Miss Ilexa Belladonna - November 19, 2008 12:36 pm

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