As for his potty - we had to help him a lot. Whenever he got up at night I got up with him and took him to his potty pad and he would usually go. During the day - he slept a lot and whenever he got up - he would bark and we would know he wanted to go potty or go to his food so we would let him down off the couch and he would find his way to his food or head to the door and we would take him out. Luckily my husband is retired and was home with him all day. I would never let him go on his own as we have a lot of bushes and I was afraid he'd poke his eyes. But, he usually didn't wander and would squat almost immediately or poop quickly. Then he would bark again and we'd take him back up and into the house.
Because he had kidney disease the hard part was waking up 3 or 4 times a night to make sure he could go potty. It was an adjustment. He was also 16 when he went blind - so we had about a year and a half of doing this. We adjusted to his needs pretty easily. |