
Tawny -- Dogs are a lot more like kids than I thought they would be! Sometimes they are worse, since you don't have to go outside in the middle of the night in freezing weather so your baby can poop out a wad of illicitly consumed paper towels! We have three dogs right now, a beagle (10), hound/lab/pit (5), and a little pittie x (3) who is making weird little dog dream sounds at my feet right now. They are all at once a joy and a major frustration! We got the youngest last year through a rescue. It took a while to housebreak her, but once she got it she was great... Until right around my last cycle. One of our cats (you had to know with my screen name that I had like 4 cats, right?) used to pee over EVERYTHING (you can see why I love cats, right?) so we had to keep all our bedroom doors shut at all times. He passed away during my last cycle, so suddenly we could leave all the doors open for the first time in almost 13 years! Yay! Aaaaand then our pittie started peeing in the house. She's good again, but at the time... Oh. My. God. So the short version of that very, VERY long story is that I feel your pain on pee-related nervous breakdowns. Who of us HASN'T sat on the floor in a puddle of urine, cranked up on injectable hormones, clutching a bottle of cleaner and shaking a fistful of paper towels, and weeping copiously? (I mean, other than the intelligent people out there who spend their money on awesome things like luxury cars and mind-blowing exotic vacations rather than on some furry quadrupeds who would totally eat us if we dropped dead and nobody found our bodies until well after the kibble ran out...)
