Dog Days

I was sitting at my laptop (which I am also doing right now) and noticed that it had been getting rather much darker … so absorbed in looking at something I didn’t notice it starting, as I usually do. It’s been a hard last few days, with DH out again, and him not supposed to get back until late tonight.

I like storms, but not electrical outage due to electric storms, though I love the lightning and thunder … any way, I was on the computer and didn’t want to have a zappy situation so I went out back to check what was going on, not having a decent window to peer out of, and wow, it was pouring already! I ran out to put a cover on the bantam australorp, and then let the dog out of his kennel to go into the house.

Doggie got upstairs and I had my eldest get food for the dog, and charged him with watching him 100% –he was habitually peeing, the dog, on things since the adoption dog had been here. It seemed at first it was “boxes” that the other dog had no doubt rubbed on or chewed on. But once that situation was reversed, he kept going over there to that area and lifting his leg and letting loose on other things. Please understand this is a place with nothing, just some boxes on our newer wood floor, and my scrapbooking armoire in the corner, windows with blinds on them on the wall, just some stuff there, not major stuff, just a few boxes to go through (still sorting things out!)

I’d done some work there and gotten the “offending” boxes out, and had a small stack of my overflow of scrapbooking materials that had been in a box … but never touched by that other dog, or any dog for that matter … the stuff had been IN a box that had been peed on, but … it’s just a stupid thing. In any case, I was watching the dog too, but the dog ate, and then stopped eating and started to wander around. This was all just the first few minutes in the house. I re-charged my eldest more than twice thereafter to watch the dog, watch him close, don’t let him out of your sight and don’t let him PEE in the house on ANYTHING!.

So I got busy for just a few seconds, forgot about the dog and the boy, and then “came too” and the dog wasn’t there in the kitchen and I ran around the temporary “island” to inspect the areas where the dog might be and there he was, over there by my scrapbooking pile, with his back left leg lifted high into the air … %!!$#!$@!$#

I have no idea what to do with that dog now. He was a decent dog inside the past several months since he’s grown up more. Now he’s a pee machine on my stuff, all seemingly due to the dog we tried-out in adoption. This dog of ours we’ve had since he was about 9 weeks old, when he and his sister came wandering down our street and we just happened to be out front … the sister eventually died after a scuffle with the dogs behind our house, but Lothar was fine, and continued on as a solo dude. He’s been an inside/outside dog, mostly outside in a kennel (10×10 chain-link fencing) during fine weather, and used to come into a crate at night, not always, but usually most winter long, during storms, and when he wanted to be in the crate during the fine times after some bad weather times, habitualness … but then times when we’d forget him before bed he stayed in his kennel and never complained, it’s a dog place, afterall. But I’ve always WANTED to crate him at night full time.

We got this new dog the other week, and got the crate I’d always wanted, and now we don’t have that dog, but do have a nice crate, but now have a doggie that is peeing on my stuff. I don’t know if he’s going through a phase he’ll quit eventually, or if it’s something that can be trained out, or if it’s a forever problem. I don’t have the energy, right now, to even think of it. I hate pee on stuff, but I HATE dog pee MOST OF ALL! It goes all over, ugh. And they pee on STUFF. At least a cat will usually pee in a puddle ON something soft, when not going where they are SUPPOSED to go. :rolleyes:

Good news is, DH is coming home earlier, he was able to get to the airport way sooner than expected and will be flying home very soon. Bad news is, the storm we had is part of a bunch of little things popping up all over the place, but those storms are also growing, which often affects airplane schedules.