Tell me I'm doing the right thing

[Karen]

She mentioned that he's not housebroken yet. But she'll work on it! Aly, I think the perfect solution is for you to Foster him, until her Rottie is well enough for his new little brother to come home. Can you imagine a cuter pair! Big black and shiny, small, gold and scruffy!

And you'd get to love him up, teach hima little, and know he's going to a great home - AND that way your mom won't have to dogsit him, too, come October!

[Rachel]

Originally posted by Karen
She mentioned that he's not housebroken yet.

I just never heard of using a diaper for a dog that wasn't housebroken. I've heard of it for incontinent dogs or dogs in heat. Is this a new technique?

[aly]

I don't know if too many people do it that way. I probably wouldn't do it, but when I say he's not housebroken, I mean he's rEALLY really bad. He marks like crazy too. He has gotten a lot better though. I am just using the diaper as protection for my carpet. When he marks, he'll just go a tiny bit in 100 places and there's no way I'd know everywhere he peed in the house unless I followed him around 24/7. I didn't want to have to shampoo all the carpets or have to have my house start to smell like urine.

I'm doing the usual housetraining methods - just with a diaper on him in case he feels the need to life his leg

[Rachel]

Thanks, Aly. I understand. YOU are a better woman than I to take on the challenge of a marking dog. That's a big one.

[aly]

Yeah, its not fun to deal with but we're working on it.

You should see it when I walk Reece and Tobi at the same time. They see who can pee the most

I took Tobi to a park with a coworker and her Dachshund after work yesterday. The little guy has a ton of energy. We walked at a quick pace for at least 2 miles and he still had a bounce in his step at the end. I think he's a little sick though, either with allergies or URI. He's a bit snotty and snorty.

I'm probably going to call the girl who wanted him to see how her rott is doing today. I have very mixed emotions on what I want her answer to be.

[aly]

Errrr, remind me to NEVER EVER EVER again take 3 dogs to Petsmart at once!!!!

[Cincy'sMom]

Oh Aly!!! I can't imagine trying to handle three...my two are bad enough!!!

[Logan]

I tried to walk two (big ones, of course) by myself last week, on a path around a lake. What could I have been thinking???? My Retrievers wouldn't want to go in the water??? DUH!!!! Guess who else ended up in the water.

[Tanya&Fritz]

That's so funny! When I walk Hans and Fritz they always seem to want to go in different directions!

[aly]

Between Tobi protecting me from every human, animal, or moving object; Reece wanting to be pet from every human, animal, or moving object; and Lolly getting freaked out from every human, animal, or moving object, I had my hands FULL!!!! I made the boys ride in the cart so they wouldn't mark and I could keep an eye on them better. Lolly ran circles around my feet and kept jumping up to sniff in the cart. Then she'd accidently push it and get scared out of her mind. Everyone wanted to come pet Tobi, but he's such a brat. He hates it when people come near me. He also really doesn't like tall people. So after Tobi barked in their face, they'd pet Reece instead and he'd just melt in their arms.

In the parking lot on the way out, I was carring my purse and bags and all their leashes got tangled in my legs and I was stuck!! It was embarrassing. I had to put my stuff down to untangle them. When I started walking again, they got tangled again so I could just take really small steps, hehe.

[aly]

No diapers today and no accidents so far!!!!

[aly]

Here's Tobi's webshots album. The pics aren't that great because the boy won't sit still!

http://community.webshots.com/album/37467789GFxWXG

[Pam]

Originally posted by Pam
I bet in no time there will be four tiny pictures in your signature! LOL!

Ha!Ha! I was right!!! LOL!

[lizbud]

Aly,

Tobi is Precious !!! Loved the pictures, especially
the wrestling pics. Reece & Tobi look pretty evenly
matched.

[Sara luvs her Tinky]

GREAT PICS......
I really like the ones where he is chewing the yellow duck with his hair up.........CUTE CUTE CUTE CUTE CUTE CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

btw.......... I just looooove your new signature!!!