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Puppy Update - Sigh
Jun. 13th, 2011 11:23 amI should stop posting about house-training successes.
Since I posted, yesterday, we've had two accidents.
The first was minor and very understandable. I was in the other room talking to Hank-The-God-of-Plumbers, and Cody was WHINING. I mistakenly assumed that this was just because Cody /loves/ Hank, and was sad to be left alone while both of us were within hearing range. (To be fair, this probably was part of what was going on.) I came back just in time to see Cody starting to squat. "Hey!" I said, and he stopped with just a sprinkle. We went outside and he finished.
The other was last night or this morning, and there are three possibilities about what happened.
We went out just before midnight, and Cody was distracted by kids while he was piddling. We stayed out until after he'd found a good place to poop and then went back in, but he never piddled again. I didn't go to bed until about 1:30, and I went through his kitchen several times before I went to bed, so when he whined a ton when I did go, I discounted it as typical 'don't leave me alone' whining. (Which he does a little every night, but usually not quite so much as that.)
Possibility a) He was telling me that he needed to go out at 1:30, and finally gave up and piddled then, and then slept the rest of the night.
Possibility b) I slept through his whining this morning, and he gave up and piddled not long before I got up.
Possibility c) He didn't whine to go out, and just piddled sometime this morning before I got up.
Given that he didn't piddle when I got up and took him out (and he did poop), I'm leaning more toward b or c. I'm /really/ hoping it wasn't c, because that would make things really tricky.
Either way, I'm going back to setting an alarm for early enough to take him out, hopefully before he actually needs to.
Since I posted, yesterday, we've had two accidents.
The first was minor and very understandable. I was in the other room talking to Hank-The-God-of-Plumbers, and Cody was WHINING. I mistakenly assumed that this was just because Cody /loves/ Hank, and was sad to be left alone while both of us were within hearing range. (To be fair, this probably was part of what was going on.) I came back just in time to see Cody starting to squat. "Hey!" I said, and he stopped with just a sprinkle. We went outside and he finished.
The other was last night or this morning, and there are three possibilities about what happened.
We went out just before midnight, and Cody was distracted by kids while he was piddling. We stayed out until after he'd found a good place to poop and then went back in, but he never piddled again. I didn't go to bed until about 1:30, and I went through his kitchen several times before I went to bed, so when he whined a ton when I did go, I discounted it as typical 'don't leave me alone' whining. (Which he does a little every night, but usually not quite so much as that.)
Possibility a) He was telling me that he needed to go out at 1:30, and finally gave up and piddled then, and then slept the rest of the night.
Possibility b) I slept through his whining this morning, and he gave up and piddled not long before I got up.
Possibility c) He didn't whine to go out, and just piddled sometime this morning before I got up.
Given that he didn't piddle when I got up and took him out (and he did poop), I'm leaning more toward b or c. I'm /really/ hoping it wasn't c, because that would make things really tricky.
Either way, I'm going back to setting an alarm for early enough to take him out, hopefully before he actually needs to.
