I was wondering how many of you have got a baby like mine. She REFUSES to go out in the rain... and if I leash her and go out with her to try and make sure she goes potty she will just stand there and look at me until I make a move toward the door then she's all gas and no brakes all the way to the door. She absolutely can not stand the rain (and she's not too fond of bathtime either). I've even went so far as to carrying an umbrella for her so she would go potty (and she still didnt). I end up soaked and she's soaked and absolutely no closer to having an empty bladder lol. The first thing that excites her causes her to let loose all over the house (she's excited and she'll run and leave a trail lmao it's horrible). It's been raining all day and she's only went out once early this morning... I know she's about to bust right on my living room floor lmao. :lala:
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Sorry I never had this problem with *******...thank god! She goes out in the rain and snow. Maybe try and work on a command to do her business. I use "go pee".
I've been using the command "go potty". She does not even care... she'll be ready to go out but as soon as I open the door and she sees that it's raining she'll just back up and plop her butt right on the floor. Now she loves the snow, she'll play in the snow all day long.Okie-dobie said:
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Mensa doesn't want to go outside if it even SMELLS like rain when it's not even raining.
When a storm is coming, I check the weather radar on the web every ten or fifteen minutes. When it looks like the rain is getting close, I take Mensa out and remind her as many times as it takes for her to remember to go.
When a storm is coming, I check the weather radar on the web every ten or fifteen minutes. When it looks like the rain is getting close, I take Mensa out and remind her as many times as it takes for her to remember to go.
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I have the case of melting dobies. If it is wet, they are stalling. I kick them out and they sit under the apple tree to escape the rain. It is funny to watch them run quickly to do their business and back under the cover of the tree. If there are puddles, they walk around them. I used to sit outside with an umbrella, but I would rather not be out there when there is lightening. Guess who sat under that umbrella. So, I try to send them out when it is light rain if I can briefly.
We also have a Melting Dobe here
goofie dog HATES rain. If I put his quilt on though he'll run right out there. I guess he figures it's protection and that's good enough for him LOL
Tucker has even gone so far as to pee on the deck so he didn't have to be out there so long.
brat dog!
goofie dog HATES rain. If I put his quilt on though he'll run right out there. I guess he figures it's protection and that's good enough for him LOL
Tucker has even gone so far as to pee on the deck so he didn't have to be out there so long.
brat dog!
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This has helped us with the melting in the rain issue. As a pup, we developed a "potty song" that we used whenever we took her outside and wanted her to go. Eventually, she knew when we did the potty song, she would go, almost like on command.(This always makes me think of the parrot that would poop on command I saw on Letterman's Stupid Pet Tricks) So when it came to going out in the rain, it was easy to make her go. Of course, we would have to be in the rain with her also.
Also in some cases, I would have to start a play session with her. A little fetch game in the rain, she would never pass up. Once she started to run around, she would always have to stop to go potty. I guess its not fun running around with a full bladder. Now we don't have any problem with her going out in the rain. Just a few different perspectives on this.
Also in some cases, I would have to start a play session with her. A little fetch game in the rain, she would never pass up. Once she started to run around, she would always have to stop to go potty. I guess its not fun running around with a full bladder. Now we don't have any problem with her going out in the rain. Just a few different perspectives on this.
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This whole subject reminds me of a cartoon i saw some years ago now by Auntie Dobe.R Mann who is actually a member of this forum but unfortunately does not visit us these days.I will insert a link to said cartoon as reproducing on here may be slightly against copyright.Just for this forum i thought we could rename this one "Sadesmom goes Potty"
http://www.dobertoons.net/toons/22.jpg
Check out the rest of the website because she has some very funny and also some very moving cartoons about Dobes(especially moving are the War Dobe ones like "The Broken Leash" which never fails to move me)
http://www.dobertoons.net/toons/22.jpg
Check out the rest of the website because she has some very funny and also some very moving cartoons about Dobes(especially moving are the War Dobe ones like "The Broken Leash" which never fails to move me)
Java hugs the eaves as if the rain was toxic. Very funny to watch. At first she'll stand with her nose practically touching the french door looking really pitiful, but as soon as I turn my back she'll take off and do the fastest pee on record, hug the wall under the eaves again and bark once to be let back in. I've even seen her step off the back stoop, pee, then step back up by the back door. HATES rain yet she will race through any puddle, stream or pile of snow.
Haha that cartoon is great, I've actually tried holding an umbrella for her lol. And since our little excursion last night out in the rain I've gotten really sick, I was already getting sick and that just pushed me over the edge lol.
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Yep.....Rudi hates the rain, too. It was pouring here last evening when I got home from work. He wouldn't leave the porch. I've caught him lifting his leg and peeing on the porch up against the house before. He usually comes back in and eventually will go out and do his thing....once he can't hold it anymore. Atleast he doesn't have accidents in the house.....or I would be dragging him out there.
He hates baths, too. At first I would have to pick him up (70lbs!) I would scoop him up with one arm at his chest and the other behind his legs. He figured that out real quick and then laid down when I went to pick him up..... smart a$$! Now he will get into the bath tub himself. He shakes the entire time!.....I even crank up the heat in the house while doing the bath, I try to use warm water for the bath so the water is not too hot....thus drying his skin out......so I'm the one who is sweating by the end of this torture session.
He hates baths, too. At first I would have to pick him up (70lbs!) I would scoop him up with one arm at his chest and the other behind his legs. He figured that out real quick and then laid down when I went to pick him up..... smart a$$! Now he will get into the bath tub himself. He shakes the entire time!.....I even crank up the heat in the house while doing the bath, I try to use warm water for the bath so the water is not too hot....thus drying his skin out......so I'm the one who is sweating by the end of this torture session.
You're fortunate there. Harley twice has gone in the house after taking an outside incomplete potty break in the rain. I will not let him do that again. Today, I stood out there for half an hour with him in the cold wind-swept rain. He still wouldn't go, so I left him out there. He has a nice insulated cedar dog house outside, so he can seek shelter there until he decides to go as a REGULARLY does at this time when there is no rain. Twice I "felt bad" for him and let him back in and twice he "thanked" me with steaming piles inside. I'm not going to let him choose for the third time to soil my home. In dry weather, he will potty on command (and he can distinguish between "pee" and "poo"), but add rain to the mix and something in his brain short circuits.Riagogogo said:
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