Princess peed and pooped on our property \(^O^)/
I am sure you guys are just dead thrilled to hear about yet another our dog adventure story (^o^;)
I think she is finally "house broken" in our own definition. She peed and pooped on our property for the first time today...we are SO relieved!
She had couple of accidents in the house. The problem is that she doesn't let us know when she needs to go outside. I think she is still fearful of us, somewhat, or she just felt like she was not allowed to do her business at all around us. When we just let her run freely very late at night and early in the morning she can go, in next door neighbor's backyard (the problematic one, who also owns 2 indoor/outdoor cats and an uncontrollable Schnauzer she lets out without a leash), but we just couldn't let her keep going there any more, specially there are too much commotion during the day and she really can't go to that direction with other people present.
So we installed Petsafe wireless fence (the device transmit signals in circle rather than having to install in-ground wires) since 2 days ago. First time she tried to go to the neighbor's yard with it and got the mild shock from it, she totally freaked out and ran back to our deck, and not wanting to go outside AT ALL. I think we traumatized her big time. We have been trying to ease her fear by making her follow us on a leash around the safe zone etc. We took her to the dog park twice last week and she relived herself more comfortably there (because the space is huge she can go very far away to do her business) but we just couldn't let her get used to having to have to go to the dog park to do her business, so we had to force her to be crated and took her outside several times, trying to run with her and lead her with a leash around the house many times, because otherwise she would not come down from the deck. The good news is that it only took her one time to learn the concept of the boundary. She would not dare attempting to go outside of the marker flags now. She also understands it's safe to leave the boundary with us on the leash. She is amazingly clever that way.
She held her pee and poop about 36 hours again (!!!) and she finally went within the fence boundary, this afternoon. It was such a big relief to us, you don't know how much! We were constantly in this state of high alert and stress...I am sure we were stressing the poor dog out (-o-;) And this evening, I let her out before and after the walk and food/water, and she did pee before the walk and pooped after the walk and food/water. She just went and did her business and came right back, like it's her usual habit now. We were so overjoyed, we were jumping up and and down by the window together, and almost cried (;o;) Are we silly or what...
We just received 1st season Dog Whisperer yesterday and have been watching and learning from it. We have been taking her to 1 hour walk in the morning and additional 30 minute walk in the evening every day, trying to "train" her. She still backs away from and tries to bark at neighbors out of her fears, but I think (hope!) she just needs to get used to the regular human neighborhood...I feel so awful for her, everyone has been asking if the dog has been abused. I think sudden change of the environment has been pretty heavy on her but hopefully she will adjust some time. She is starting to trust us little by little, but with this dog it's going to be one of these baby steps thing. She is a Chow/Shepherd/Border Collie mix, and they do say Chows are very cautious with new people. I consider this a great patience lesson for us.
Oh by the way here is the pictures from the dog park. It's just very large fenced field, where you can let your dog run around without the leash. You get to see all kinds of breed of dogs...we even saw a Great Dane there (not in the photo), that dog was so HUGE! (@_@)
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Oh and as for the tree...it's still on our roof (-_-) The tree guy was supposed to remove it last Wednesday. Well they delayed it for Friday, and their equipment needs to be fixed and it would take 2 weeks, so he just canceled the job entirely (-_-) The tree has been up on the roof for 2 weeks now... We called the new tree guy and he is supposed to come in Tuesday to remove it. We are crossing our fingers very tight.
I finally feel little less stressed enough to start scrabbling my sketchbook but it didn't turn out very good. Maybe try again tomorrow (^_^) Sooo behind with fics and posts and all that such...gotta catch up sometime...!