Quote Originally Posted by Rachel
Maybe your experience will help us all to evaluate our situations as thoroughly as possible and take into consideration the pros and cons of our future adoptions.
Well, it's made me evaluate a lot of things. It's also help me help the owners who adopted Fred. I learned so much about housebreaking in those two weeks, and their dog Paco was trained when they got him, so they had to keep up the housebreaking when they took him in. I told them my schedule, and how exactly I was doing the housebreaking, was using the method that Phred had told CountryWolf07 to use with the husky (tethering to the waist) to keep track of him and all that. Between that and the websites I found, it was the beginnings of a great learning experience, and it helped me help them with Fred. It also will make me evaluate the age and type of any dog I adopt in the future, and if I'm still teaching, I will definitely have to start in early June so that I have the entire summer to do the housebreaking and training.