A respiratory therapist at my wife's work has volunteered time in the
hurricane zone for the next three weeks. My wife agreed to take care of his
dog until he comes back. It is some kind of exotic, long haired chihuahua
named snookie.
Snookie has had two big changes in his life in the last week. A long time
human companion has left her house to go to a nursing home and his daddy
went away. He is now with us. She is a charmer. Much calmer and quieter than
most chihuahuas.
The problem is that she doesn't want to go outside to [censored]. With some
encouragement she will pee. But she insists on pooping in the house. And we
don't want to get mad at her and encourage her to hide the [censored] either.
When we trained our dog, we crate trained him. He spent time in his crate
until he learned to pee and [censored] outside. We lavished praise on him whenever
he went outside. He learned very quickly, if he wanted to spend time outside
his crate, to go outside.
She has a very nice, top of the line crate. I think a little crate training
is in order. We have had her for three days now and are getting very tired
of the [censored]. She did not do this at home.
Any suggestion will be appreciated. I told my wife not to volunteer doggy
sitting services again without a formal intro to the dog and a two day
tryout period first.