Porter has been experimenting with staying in the kitchen and laundry room (now converted to a doggy den) during the day. After one afternoon and one morning, he has a flawless track record, and has been very careful to be good, as evidenced by his face upon my arrival home at lunch today. (Lookah, Mommy. I am being a good boy! Didn't gahm the cabinets or anything!)
If you can't see Porter's water bowl, it's because he shoves his entire head in it and slurpa slurpa slurpas until it's all empty. He always acts like he hasn't had anything to drink in several days. Also, he's totally over lunch. I can't pay him to eat in the middle of the day. The vet says this is fine, and he's clearly not losing weight...
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My mama would like to make that transition with me, but I continue to have accidents, so that are afraid. Did you wait until Porter didn't have accidents?
Yes - Porter quit having accidents quite a few weeks ago. The last time we had an accident, it was pouring down rain out and he just flat didn't WANT to go/stay out in it.
Are you crate training Sparky? We were very careful with Porter and crate training - he was either in the crate or under constant surveillance by us (HPA - High Poop Alert!). We bought him a just-barely-large-enough crate per our vet's advice, and he quit having accidents in the crate almost immediately. Then, we just made sure he got plenty of potty breaks (even in the middle of the night, though he quickly got old enough to make it all night) and that he was either in his crate or under our watchful gaze all the rest of the time. A bit stressful at times, but it worked quickly and has definitely paid off. He now goes to the door and asks to be let out even when we're visiting someone else's house.
And, of course, now he can be trusted out in the kitchen, which he seems to enjoy, though he never really minded the crate. He's just too darn BIG for it now!
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