Long Time No Blog!

Wow, it's been a really long time since I've blogged. Dinky has been keeping me more than busy. But his potty training is coming along! I wouldn't say he is potty trained yet as he has accidents in the house still, but he's gotten better about going outside. And he's sort of started telling me when he needs to go out....should I pick up the signs. He gets very distracted outside though, but the progress is encouraging. He has also gotten better about playing by himself. He still loves attention though! I think he misses my family on Monday, since it's just the two of us during the week.

Maybe sometime soon, I can start working on my stuff again. I hope so!

Dinky is a Weird Dog

So Dinky became inadvertantly playpen trained. I'm not sure how it happened, but he refuses to go potty outside. I only had him in the playpen I borrowed from my friend with the pugs the night I got him (last Thursday) and then the next day while I was at work (last Friday) as well as two more hours while I was at a jewelry party. (He made a royal mess the two hours I was at the party, so I decided to train him to go potty outside. Plus, I couldn't stand the smell.) So all this weekend, and today after work I've been working with him to go outside. But he won't go! So I get concerned about his bladder and put him in the playpen and he goes right away.

Then today, I was talking to my mom, and he started pawing to get into the playpen. So I took him outside, and surprise surprise, he didn't go. So then I took out the playpen, and he kind of went nuts because he was in the playpen, and could see outside, but couldn't get out. I brought him back in and called mom, and he started pawing again. So I put him in the play pen, and he went right away.

I go to my parent's house quite often on the weekends (pathetic, I know) and I do not want to haul a playpen. What am I going to do? Does anyone have any tips on how ot break him of the playpen?