 All I know is that I'm
THANKFUL!!!!
I used to have two, but tragedy left me with one perfectly healthy, sweet, fun, attentive, mindful, loving, mostly calm, secure, social, even tempered, tolerant yorkie girl. She is 8 months old. And after reading thirty pages straight of threads here, I am damned grateful for whatever we are doing right that seems to be working. Mind you, she's not perfect. She isn't completely potty trained. Poos outside 90% of the time! Pees inside a lot. Oh well. We deal with it. I happen to LOVE steam cleaning. She happens to like to play "how close can we get to the loud sucking object without losing a toe" game. Sometimes she just won't move as if to challenge it with disregard. It works out well for us for the time being.
Two things are an issue. We are working on the face-ear-armpit-neck-hair-whatever she can get at obsessive licking by blocking and repeating NO FACE sternly... She stops but thirty seconds later her Alzheimer's kicks in and next thing you know my ears are clean and you feel violated. This wouldn't be so bad except that one day her breath turned atrocious. Then we caught her gnawing on her poop. We haven't caught her doing that in a long time now, but even when we can account for all poop and we've foamed her mouth for tarter, given her minty breath treats ( we trained her to LOVE using an old toothbrush as a chew toy, so she's always "brushing) her breath is still unbearably bad. It's embarrassing. She doesn't seem to mind.
Any thoughts? |