Jeanie K, I appreciate your comment about living in the country. Although I understand where you are coming from, Erin. I was the one who posted the thread about my dog lifting his leg on the pee pad and peeing on the wall. I don't live in the country, exactly, but my property backs to federal forest which is full of owls, hawks, buzzards, snakes, & you name it. A girlfriend of mine, who lives nearby, called me recently in a panic because a flyer was put in all the mailboxes in her community advising that a small maltese was picked up by a hawk as her human mother sat right there on the porch. This is the second such story that I've heard in my county. Also, I have a girlfriend who used to have a yorki-poo, until it was stolen from her yard. Everyone knows how loveable & easy to steal this babies are.
I do think that it is a personal choice. I would just rather find a cure to leg lifting on a pee pad, than to have my dog taken from me whether by critter or another person. And yes, I am a worry wort & overprotective.
Also, as far as traveling..... I carry a pee pad with me. Since Snickers doesn't understand 'going outside', I just lay out the pad & say his command ('hurry'). I've done this with him on a leash in a parking lot while shopping & in the vet's bathroom just to name a few places. Those command words work like a charm. Snickers has not yet confused my bathroom rugs with his pee pads....Let's keep hoping he doesn't! |