Dog dealings..
So night before last I got the dogs all set and headed out the front door with them. All three..braiding the leashes before we even got 5 houses from mine. Nathan rides his scooter with David and Ryan is usually somewhere between me, the dogs and the boys. The new gardener was working on the grass at the apartment complex right down the street from us. Rusty stopped and did his doodie on the grass and armed with my poopie bag, I picked it up. Just in time for the spanish lady who was picking up leaves to see me and start yelling about how my dog should crap on my grass. I told her "I am picking it up!! I always do!!" but she wouldn't hear of it. She kept yelling at me all the way down the block. Funny part is the dogs (the weiners that is) were barking right back at her. What a crazy lady!
Which brings me to the next headache. We had a long gate made for our driveway last summer. It was wooden and was never quite right. It sagged in the middle and was heavy and bulky. I just looked terrible. It was a valiant effort on the part of my father in law, but just not good, despite all his efforts. We had a steel guy come and build us a nice metal frame and then my father in law is coming to put the pickets back on it. I have a beautiful frame, but not a single picket to hold weenies in. So for a week now I have had to take my dogs out, every time they whine, with their harnesses on leashes. What a pain in the tukus. Frank is not a huge fan of his harness.. dunno what it is. I tried just putting the leash on his collar but that really freaks him out. So for the most part during the day I have been leaving the harnesses on. Less stress for him, since getting it on seems to be his big freak out. Actually having it on is not much of a problem, at least I thought. Well last night I went to take them out one last time before bed and he had chewed thru the center strap on his harness... omg. Darby's clasp is cracked so she got a new one too. Jeez Louise
Chore number three!! I have a back patio. My house is three stories. The living quarters are on the top floor, bedrooms on the middle and a basement in the back. I leave the top patio door open for the dogs to sun themselves. If they have an urgent need to potty and dont get my attention over Nathan, the can go out there. Well... I am a cleaning freak now. No one can go out there because of the wee wee and woo woo left behind. :( Sometimes when I take them outside Darby will just refuse to go, and when we get upstairs, she is right out on the patio.. just outside the door doing her thing. *SIGH* I got a Training pad holder today Frank was trained on one and I cant even put a door mat out there or Darby will mark it. I am hoping that having the training pad out there will encourage them to use it.
Any suggestions would be grand! The pickets will be back on the gate this weekend thank goodness.
Which brings me to the next headache. We had a long gate made for our driveway last summer. It was wooden and was never quite right. It sagged in the middle and was heavy and bulky. I just looked terrible. It was a valiant effort on the part of my father in law, but just not good, despite all his efforts. We had a steel guy come and build us a nice metal frame and then my father in law is coming to put the pickets back on it. I have a beautiful frame, but not a single picket to hold weenies in. So for a week now I have had to take my dogs out, every time they whine, with their harnesses on leashes. What a pain in the tukus. Frank is not a huge fan of his harness.. dunno what it is. I tried just putting the leash on his collar but that really freaks him out. So for the most part during the day I have been leaving the harnesses on. Less stress for him, since getting it on seems to be his big freak out. Actually having it on is not much of a problem, at least I thought. Well last night I went to take them out one last time before bed and he had chewed thru the center strap on his harness... omg. Darby's clasp is cracked so she got a new one too. Jeez Louise
Chore number three!! I have a back patio. My house is three stories. The living quarters are on the top floor, bedrooms on the middle and a basement in the back. I leave the top patio door open for the dogs to sun themselves. If they have an urgent need to potty and dont get my attention over Nathan, the can go out there. Well... I am a cleaning freak now. No one can go out there because of the wee wee and woo woo left behind. :( Sometimes when I take them outside Darby will just refuse to go, and when we get upstairs, she is right out on the patio.. just outside the door doing her thing. *SIGH* I got a Training pad holder today Frank was trained on one and I cant even put a door mat out there or Darby will mark it. I am hoping that having the training pad out there will encourage them to use it.
Any suggestions would be grand! The pickets will be back on the gate this weekend thank goodness.