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Patches

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I have tonight! Poor Jasper, I told him "I'm sick of you sniffing and looking at me...go and do a bloody pooh for God's sake!!!!!!!"

I feel guilty now.

An hour I was outside in the pouring rain. I take him for his late evening No 2 walk and Duncan takes him for a quick wee before we go to bed. Not tonight. He'd not been out for 6 hours, to be sure he goes, but it failed. Gaah! No pooh tonight. I took him in the straw shed (he likes pooping on daddy's straw
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), the calf shed and even the tractor shed to escape the rain. Had no idea I was out so long....no wonder he looked fed up! Poor doggy.

I'm soaked, he's soaked and I'll have to try again in an hour or so. He won't be amused....but then neither am I!

I went outside at 8.30 to walk two dogs and have just come in.
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I feel for you! I remember walking Sweep round for hours when he was a puppy to get him to wee/poo before bedtime - was always to busy looking/sniffing at anything rather than do what he was supposed to. Now its the other way round I have to practically drag him to the backdoor and fling him out - he does what he needs to and is back in bed before you can blink!
 
Putting in a dog flap was a great idea! Now the dogs live in the utiity room, and if they need to go out, they do! No being woken up at three in the morning by a howling dog with an upset stomach - although all hell lets lose when all three are trying to get through the flap to chase the local fox!
 
yep join u on the anger front!
Took Beau for a walk on sat with my friends spaniel (spaniel is GOLDEN in terms of behaviour!!!) both off the lead to have a rollicking good time, practicing recall, spaniel returns then beau returns to me, for a treat.
Then just once, he decides nope 2m away is plenty then i say (harder) come here! he turns his nose and p**ses off across clumber park and the spaniel FOLLOWS! I was like ARGH U LITTLE ****er!!!!! GRRRRRRRR
friend and OH thoguht it was hilarious...... i disagreed!
 
A dog flap would be marvellous!

Sadly I have to always take Jasper out on a lead. He can get through the hedges of the somewhat extensive garden here. The in-laws won't let us erect a secure fenced area from our front door....which isn't practical anyway as it's our only entry/exit on this side of the farmhouse (We split the house in two). Would no doubt end up with the kids treading in poop of a school morning if I let him out into a fenced off area last thing at night or first thing in the morning.

My main gripe is the whole living on a farm thing. I love the farm, don't get me wrong, but we don't have concrete or tarmac tracks here. The yard is just one big farm track basically. Cocker Spaniel and mud = very dirty doggy five times a day when he goes out for walkies.

I hate how dirty he gets and how I have to wash and dry him off constantly and shut him out of rooms until he dries.

Sometimes I long to live back in the town where I can walk him on pavements and have a "back yard" patio area to let him out into.
 
still healing, I was SO mad about having to shell out about 140 quid for correcting a mistake that the vets should NOT have made in the first place! grrr!
but he is ok
Working on recall and heal work still, getting better but far from perfect! (pig headed dog)
Not had any pictures recently
but we are going to cumbria this weekend with my housemate for her birthday, so 5 springer spaniels, a 2yo choc lab and my 6mnth old border collie.............. nice sane weekend and lots of blury pictures to come! :-)
hows bess coming on? still knocking you over when recalling? hehe (that was an ace vid!)
 

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I sympathise, Tilly often asks to go out and then "forgets" to go to the loo cos she gets carried away chasing leaves, or goes through the fence into the horse fields and eats poo
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So she needed to be accompanied to make sure she did her business. She is growing out of this now though, gets it over and done with quickly and returns to her favourite spot in front of the fire
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I so sympathise with you. Evie at 8 months is very clean in the house, but I swear the little monkey does everything she can think of to extend her time outside, particularly at night. She plays with her toys, barks at rabbits in the wood, eats copious amounts of rabbit poo
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, in fact everything except what she is supposed to do. On more than one occasion I have brought her back in thinking she didn't want to go, as soon as I sit down she starts whining at the door and when we go out again (usually at some crucial part of a tv programme) she immediately does something and looks all hurt at me as if to say, I told you I needed to stay out longer
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Ooooh, I remember when my dog Holly was a puppy (she's 17 now and deaf as a post, but still going strong!) She had real trouble understanding house training!!

When she was tiny and before her vaccs were done, we used newspaper indoors at night and popped her out on the grass throughout the day to do her wees. She never pooped outside, prefering to do that at night on the newspaper, but we didn't think too much about it at the time.

Aaaah, but when it came time for her to start going out for proper walks - would she poop outside?! No way. She'd pee, but never poop. You could walk her for 6 hours and she'd cross her legs rather than give in to natures call. Then, of course, eventually you would have to return home and then Bob's Your Uncle! As soon as you turned your back for a millisecond - you'd find the poop deposited in the house, with a very sheepish Holly hiding away knowing she'd done wrong. Don't know how she'd managed it, but we never ever caught her in the act. She was crafty little thing.

Jeepers, must have taken us a year to convince her that it was okay to poop on grass outside! Boy, did I take her on some LONG walks all those years ago. Determined as I was that she would have to give in eventually. Ha ha - her resolve was stronger than mine
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I was a lot slimmer back then
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