Sometime this summer, my wife and daughter and I were driving down Braselton Hwy when we saw a little dog in the middle of traffic.
I pulled over and when there was a break in the traffic, I got the dog and brought it back to my van. It was too weak to run and didn't try to put up a fight. It probably weighed about 12 pounds and it was covered in dirt and ticks. We took it to the local Petco, got her cleaned up with a nice warm shower and then found an emergency vet.
My 14yr old daughter had already named her before I got her in the car, "Lola".
Well she survived and got pretty healthy.
Lola weighs about 25 pounds now. She's doing well. We think she is a pit bull and Labrador mix. But she isn't getting any bigger. Which is fine. I don't need two large dogs in the house.
For the most part, she's a great dog.
Her only flaw is that she isn't taking well to house training.
She knows she's supposed to let us know that she has to go out and sometimes she does. Other times it seems like she just pees while she's walking down the hall.
We've read that some dogs can just be incontinent.
So we're putting diapers on her. We get the baby diapers at Aldi's, cut a hole in them for the tail and she's usually good until she starts to try and get them off.
So, I'm asking for some advice. This little dog seems to have picked up some of the house training but sometimes it's like she's never heard a word we've said. This is the second dog I've owned that had to be taught. The other dog has no problem telling us he needs to go out. This dog, almost an adult by now is either resisting the training, is too stupid to train or she has a physical problem preventing her from being successfully house trained.
We don't have a back yard. When it's time to go outside, one of us has to put our shoes on and take her out.
Do any of you have some good ideas for this dog? I'm trying to avoid "sending her to live on the farm".
I pulled over and when there was a break in the traffic, I got the dog and brought it back to my van. It was too weak to run and didn't try to put up a fight. It probably weighed about 12 pounds and it was covered in dirt and ticks. We took it to the local Petco, got her cleaned up with a nice warm shower and then found an emergency vet.
My 14yr old daughter had already named her before I got her in the car, "Lola".
Well she survived and got pretty healthy.
Lola weighs about 25 pounds now. She's doing well. We think she is a pit bull and Labrador mix. But she isn't getting any bigger. Which is fine. I don't need two large dogs in the house.
For the most part, she's a great dog.
Her only flaw is that she isn't taking well to house training.
She knows she's supposed to let us know that she has to go out and sometimes she does. Other times it seems like she just pees while she's walking down the hall.
We've read that some dogs can just be incontinent.
So we're putting diapers on her. We get the baby diapers at Aldi's, cut a hole in them for the tail and she's usually good until she starts to try and get them off.
So, I'm asking for some advice. This little dog seems to have picked up some of the house training but sometimes it's like she's never heard a word we've said. This is the second dog I've owned that had to be taught. The other dog has no problem telling us he needs to go out. This dog, almost an adult by now is either resisting the training, is too stupid to train or she has a physical problem preventing her from being successfully house trained.
We don't have a back yard. When it's time to go outside, one of us has to put our shoes on and take her out.
Do any of you have some good ideas for this dog? I'm trying to avoid "sending her to live on the farm".
