 Update
Weve had milly, her name is bella now for about a month. Got her from the private shelter and her name got changed cuz she would go possum (never seen a dog do this) when my husband said milly so we wanted her to be okay with a guy saying her name and she adores my husband lol.
She was doing great going to the door if she had to go out. But she has regressed a bit cuz one time she went there n i was trying to finish putting the diaper on my youngest and while getting over to bella she started to go and like i did with all our other dogs i picked her up and said no once (prob more in a nicer way then i should of said no lol) and got her outside to finish and praised her. But now she wont go to the door any more, she doesnt sniff around, she will just go even if shes on the couch or the onetime when she was sitting on my husband and never gave any signs she had to go out.
Are there any tips?
I have her and our silky rockie on a schedule for feeding and i have them on an ever 30-45min bathroom breakers (more for her cuz rockie comes to u and gets up close to ur face to say he has to go out) and ill even wake her up if its been 45mins n make her go out. (They are crated at night and she is about 90% not going in the crate she may pee if i dont get her out of hers first in the morning, i think maybe cuz she knows shes going out and gets excited, but she never poos so i know she has an ability to hold it longer then our bathroom breaks during the day. But i still cant get her to tell us when she has to go or even go back to how she was going to the door, right now its pretty much like me saying hey u have to go out even tho u havent said u had to so its like she is relying on me telling her when she has to go, so when she does inbetween the 30-45mins she just goes. She drinks a lot (but ive cut back on that) and we had her checked for diabetes and utis etc everything is negative, so myself and the vet were thinking maybe she wasnt given a lot of water at her previous owner before the rescue shelter and now thinks if theres water out she has to drink fast and all of it if she cant (she can empty their water dish by herself) so its just getting her to realize she will have things like that.
(I still have to figure how to put an image for the avatar profile of bella and rockie together)
But on the sense of mixed/mutt dogs i just want to say no dog breed yorkie, silky, etc is pure breed if u want to get technical cuz every breed we have ever had has been breed down from two different dogs there is no breed of dog that hasnt. So to say a morkie is a mix/mutt you also need to say that a yorkie or collie what ever "pure breed" dog you have is a mix/mutt also under your theory/concept. Sorry i just had to say that cuz the concept of pure breed and how people are so against mix/mutts getting a breed name has made me laugh cuz all dogs are mix/mutts with a breed name. Now do i believe that breeders should mix dogs just for the sake of mixing to get a high $ for pups no because 90% of the time those pups end up in shelters or bad environments. I also dont believe in breeders doing teacup etc of breeds like the yorkie and a few others cuz most dont know its the breeding or two runts and isnt fair to the breed or the pups cuz you are breeding bad genes etc cuz that is why a runt is a runt due to the lack of healthy solid genes (not the right wording) and other factors. |