 Thank you
Thanks to all who have responded.
We are about to go insane with this lovely little girl. I can deal with her loving my husband so much while falling in last place myself, as I understand things may change with time just as Crystal changed. There are other issues.
What we are having more trouble with is getting her to go outside to do her business. She will go outside, pee and then come back in to poop on my hardwood floors. My husband sat outdoors with her for 30 minutes yesterday to no avail. When they came back inside, you can guess the rest.
The other behavior, that is really difficult to deal with, involves poop eating of her own stool. We are trying Forbid, but don't see any improvement after 2 days. There are other Internet suggestions: putting meat tenderizer on her stools, adding pineapple or pumpkin to her diet, changing her diet and attempting to teach her to "leave it."
All of this is making having a new puppy not much fun, and as the 24/7 caretaker, I am at my wits' end... I could hang in there until she learns where she needs to go to poop, but the poop eating certainly does not make us anxious to have her up in our faces or laps. Internet searches for solutions for poop eating are not very encouraging...
Cathie |