This is the one about poop.

Posted October 23rd, 2009 by Mike Lawson

I wrote last week about the new addition to our house, and Beezus has been a pretty good challenge for us.  First off she is a few weeks younger than Olive was when Olive came home.  Secondly, I am in a different position and at a different Club now so I can’t run home at lunch to take her outside.

Daniel has been coming home each day to take Beezus out to relieve herself, but even still she has been doing her business in her crate when we are at work.

Yesterday we started a new (exhausting) routine that we’re hoping with cure this shitting-where-you-sleep problem.  In the morning we wake up and feed the dogs.  Beezus gets taken out to do her business.  Then she gets taken out every hour until I leave for work.  After work we do the same on-the-hour kind of thing.  Once we go to sleep, I wake up at 1am to take her out, and Daniel wakes up at 4am to take her out.

I know that with Olive we were the kind of dog owners that over-analyze everything.  We Googled any problem we had with training, and changed up our routines if we found a website with new suggestions.  I’m hoping that right now we’re just being annoying dog owners again.