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| "OK, I'll chew this authorized knuckle bone, but when you are not looking it's back to your Ugg boots." |
Might Angus be housebroken? I am afraid to type those words in case of jinxing things. And it is true that when we are around and he is loose in the house we are careful to put him outside every half-hour, so we aren't giving him a chance to screw up. When we put him out, he always pees (though sometimes, I swear, he just squeezes out a couple of drops so that I'll let him back in the house).
He slept last night from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. with only one little chirp (and those chirps wake me instantly). So clearly his innards are 99 percent bladder, 1 percent everything else. Good dog!
He has not had an accident in the house all week.
Shhhhhhhhh do not say this out loud.
Still and all, I am hoping it is true. And I am now turning my attention to one more thing: his damn chewing. Please stop biting so much, little guy! He chews pillows and rugs and blankets (especially down duvets) and any piece of me or my clothes that he can get those mandibles of death near. I am going through the Bitter Apple at a tremendous rate. (Buy stock.)
He's pretty good about being redirected--I unhook the blanket from his sharp little teeth (and when are those going to fall out, anyway?) and stuff a puffy toy in there instead. When he's chewing on a rug, I give him a rope tug toy.
But some days he simply will not be redirected. This pair of Ugg boots is exactly what I want right now! he says. And even though we have been taught by the puppy teacher not to chase the dog when it has contraband because the dog will think it's a game, when the dog has your Ugg boot in its mouth, you chase. You do.
Saturday morning will be his last puppy class. I want to get him a little mortarboard but Doug says--well, Doug doesn't say anything, just gives me that look.
My daughter's bulldog, Liberty, got a mortarboard from the puppy class when she graduated! Maybe yours will provide them, also.
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DeleteAlready done with puppy class???? What is he, some kind of puppy genius? Anyway, he's going to chew, so keep anything you don't want chewed out of reach, and even then...Cady chewed off the trim in our bathroom--luckily, shortly before we were going to redo it, and she may have moved up the schedule a bit. And that was my non-mouthy dog. She had a rope toy that was still there 6 years later when we got Maggie (welcome to life with a retriever)--and then was shredded within 2 days.
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