Funny how the universe works sometimes...

[cookymonster]

My doctor has been repeatedly reminding me that exercise is essential in the management of my health. Every time I go in, she asks, "So, are you getting some exercise?" and I hmmmm and ahhhh and spit it out that I'm not really getting any. She nods, very understanding, but reminds me that I would see some real results from getting off my ass and

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[whatawookie]

I am delighted to hear you are with dog again :-) What kind of dog is Sasser?

[cookymonster]

Sasser is a lab/hound mix. She's 56 pounds and is about a year old. She's another shelter adoption and she's WAY different from Wanton. I'll post a picture in a bit. :)

[binsk]

I'm all for your raison d'exercise, but you should be able to train her to poop in the yard. Leaving her out there til she does go and praising her and ensuring she understands crapping in the house is a no-no would be a necessity I think. Else if you leave her in the house when you run errands, you potentially have a mess to come back and clean. I would imagine that's unacceptable.

[cookymonster]

We're going to work on it. Right now we don't have a fenced in yard and we can't leave her out there until she goes. We were going to fence it in but she's a jumper and quite capable of jumping the fence on both sides of the yard. She's pretty well trained to go after eating, although we had an incident today that ticked me off. But we'll keep working on it. We're working on a way to keep her outside (a dog run or an aerial pulley/run) and I'm sure we'll get there!