NOT Potty Trained

Posted on April 12, 2008
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After letting the boys out to potty this morning we had some time to kill before I had to get ready for puppy class.  I let them run around the house and play for about half an hour.  Liame kept running back and forth to the water bowl filling up again and again.  All of a sudden he disappears upstairs and I call him back down.  A few minutes later I head upstairs to find the carpet soaked in urine.  So much for him being a big boy.  :(

BTW: The photo you see from above is not from this incident its from a different one where he pooped all over his cage and I had to place him in the kitchen until I could clean up the mess in his cage.

 

Visiting The Breeder

Posted on April 4, 2008
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Today went to go visit the breeder.  I wanted her to see how big Liame has gotten.  I watched Oprahs show on puppy mills and cried my heart out.  I dont think I will ever get those disturbing images and statistics out of my head.  I tried to do the right thing and go the rescue route.  For over a month I went to the humane society, looked online within a several hundred mile radius of Seattle and applied to adopt a PSLRA (lab rescue) puppy.  I never found a lab puppy online or at the humane society nor did I ever heard back from PSLRA.  I ended up having to go to a breeder for my puppy.  I got flack from it at work from several people but they had no idea how I had spent a month trying to get a puppy.  Even though we have two shelter animals (Jasper and Lilly our cat), from time to time I regret that decision and feel incredibly guilty.  Today was one of those days.  

 

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