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Originally Posted by ancora_imparo  Can you afford doggie day care at a place that has great supervision and separates the smaller dogs? It might wear him out so that he's too tired to fuss. |
Unfortunately, until I have him stable for a year or so, all my extra cash is going into the vet fund, because he blew it last year, so I'm re-building it (he has allergies and IBD). I think I have it under control so I've been adding monthly to the vet fund, but that put a damper on the budget, which is already slim.
There are a bunch of other students who keep telling me they wanna come play with my dog, I may ask them if they seriously would like to walk him, and offer them a little cash or to cook them a meal for it or something.
Also last night he jumped up on the bed and peed!
I lost it! I had just done all of the bed linens that morning, so I ended up spending $15 dollars on laundry yesterday and had to stay up another 2 hours
. I put him in his xpen for the night. I figured it was safer for him than for me to be mad at him. I feel better this morning, and I've banned him from the bedroom temporarily.
I'm thinking I may actually need to start confining him more, he's been unreliable with the potty training since we moved, and I can't have him marking the bed it's been ages since he's done that. I thought we were making progress with fixing that, cause last week I caught him peeing on the tray and gave him a ton of treats, but this week he's just failing on all aspects of the training thing. I know I survived undergrad being this busy, so there is a way to balance this, but he's stressing me out. I think this weekend I may go to my storage locker and pull out all the agility equipment and do some serious 2-3 hours of work with him just to get that bond back. That is assuming I'm not too far behind on readings. *sigh* sorry for the rant. Today will be a better day.