HI! I have taken the advise from the last thread and have bought a gentle leader headcollar. I have had enough of my girl pulling me and she is not getting it through her head. When I walk her really close to my leg, she is OK, but my hand gets so sore from holding the lead so much!! Lets hope that this helps because I really want to be able to walk my dogs and bubs during the day while DP is at work..
We have a staffy ***** who is almost three. Emma is a beautiful dog, I did lots of training with her when she was young, and for the most part she is very good (and most people agree with that LOL!). She is used to young children staying with us, and is very good with them all, but I'm aware that that is definitely not the same as us brining our baby into our home.
She is very much a 'family pet', an inside dog, although she is always outside when we are out, and I do make her spend some time out there when I am home during the day.
She is definitely toilet trained. We don't have a doggie door (yet) but she always barks if she needs to go outside, no matter what the time, and can hold on and hold on until someone (DH!) wakes up and comes to let her out. Occasionally, if he's not woken up, she will come into the bedroom and lick him to wake him up.
We have a tiled area where the back door is, and the two times in two years she has gone inside since being TT it has been on there, she definitely knows that is the best spot rather than the carpet.
Three times in the last week we have woken up to find that she's weed inside. Twice on the rug in the back room, and last night on the carpet a bit further away. We have been very tired, but I find it hard to believe that one of us wouldn't have woken up to her barking.
I am mindful of the fact that she might have a UTI, or something like that, but it has been spread out over a week, not on continuous days.
I really don't know what to do with her. I am feeling like she's becoming aware that something is changing around here and that's why she's doing it, but I'm not sure. I don't want to yell and scream at her if that's being counter-productive. She KNOWS what she's done is wrong, she won't go near it when we get up, which is our first cue!
PLEASE if anyone has any advice, I would love it. I am happy to do whatever it takes to stop this little rountine, and keep my puppy happy!
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