The dog situation
26 Jun 2011 04:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneWell, in short, the situation is that we found a bunch of the dog-training pads at Citymarket (which is a supermarket, and easier to shop at than a pet specialty store) and they were fairly cheap, and they are indeed as wondrously absorbent as advertised; but my dog is a dumbass and won't use them the right way (by peeing ON instead of next to them).
He's used to paper and is weirdly fastidious, so after he's peed on a paper or pee pad, the next time he comes back he pees next to it, even if the pad is still three quarters unused and dry. He never goes in the same spot twice, in short, and the next spot he chooses is usually on the bare floor. In the Newspaper Era the paper grew bigger and bigger and he'd still pee outside it, even when there were clean bits. It's like he only grasps that he's meant to pee in the VICINITY of the paper, but aside from not getting his feet dirty, he doesn't really bother that much about where.
So it seems I'm going to have to completely carpet the hallway with the pee pads to do any good. That wouldn't be a bad idea anyway - splashes and all - except that we don't have a car and the place where we bought the pee pads is pretty far away, and I didn't realize I'd need to use like several square meters of them at a time.
Meanwhile, Russel Crowe grew up in the House of Horror where pee was just par for the course, and he loves to sit on the pee pads, usually in the middle of the peed part. He picks the freshest pee on purpose, I think. He just sits there and, like, chills out. And then he comes back in the livingroom, wafting the smell of pee after him. >_
He's used to paper and is weirdly fastidious, so after he's peed on a paper or pee pad, the next time he comes back he pees next to it, even if the pad is still three quarters unused and dry. He never goes in the same spot twice, in short, and the next spot he chooses is usually on the bare floor. In the Newspaper Era the paper grew bigger and bigger and he'd still pee outside it, even when there were clean bits. It's like he only grasps that he's meant to pee in the VICINITY of the paper, but aside from not getting his feet dirty, he doesn't really bother that much about where.
So it seems I'm going to have to completely carpet the hallway with the pee pads to do any good. That wouldn't be a bad idea anyway - splashes and all - except that we don't have a car and the place where we bought the pee pads is pretty far away, and I didn't realize I'd need to use like several square meters of them at a time.
Meanwhile, Russel Crowe grew up in the House of Horror where pee was just par for the course, and he loves to sit on the pee pads, usually in the middle of the peed part. He picks the freshest pee on purpose, I think. He just sits there and, like, chills out. And then he comes back in the livingroom, wafting the smell of pee after him. >_
