Sandy, I get that. We lost our 16 year old Scooby in October. His last couple years he had arthritis and trouble getting around on hardwoods. We have hardwoods in the kitchen and family room. He did best on those rubber backed bathmats. So the whole two rooms were laced with them. I would buy them whenever/wherever I could find them on sale, so we had a variety of colors and sizes. I'm sure anyone that came to my house thought I was nuts because we had quite a patchwork quilt on the floor, but we would have put up with just about anything to keep him comfortable.
Our little rescue is doing great with the potty stuff this weekend. For the first three days he was here, it was horrible. He peed and marked and marked and peed, no matter how many times I took him out. He would do it outside and come right back in and do it in the house. On Friday he was neutered. Saturday morning he tried it twice, and hasn't marked or had an accident in the house since noon yesterday. I also noticed that he is not constantly peeing outside either. Initially we were taking him out at least every hour, and he'd go three times. Now today he's done great on a normal schedule that our other two dogs are on, going out every few hours, peeing once and coming right back in and he also made it through the night -out of his crate- without an accident. I'm wondering if all that before was just him feeling unsafe and insecure. I'm not naïve enough to actually trust him yet, but I definitely am not in the same panic mode I was in yesterday!
Thanks for your input.
Diana |