Well, let me first start off by saying I love my little chocolate covered Lab baby. However, she is rather a tough one to train. First of all, she play bites. Yeah, it's called play biting but it hurts like heck and makes me bleed. I have to wear band aides on my hands when I go to work so people won't thing I have leprosy or am a self mutilator. 2nd of all, I'm having a tough time house training her for potty. You really have to watch them like a hawk in order to get an idea of when they have to poop or pee or they will poop and pee all over your floor and rug. I just simply get exhausted trying to drag her out a million times a night, so I fall short of catching her signals all the time. However yesterday was the first time we went all day without the first accident. Yeah!!! You have no idea of what an accomplishment this is. I could not even start to count how many times I've cleaned poop and pee up off my floor. When she goes and does her business outside, I praise her and give her a treat. They say I got her too young and is why I'm having problems with the biting, she was 6 weeks. They say it's best to wait at least until they are 8 weeks so they can learn bite inhibition from their mother. But I didn't know. The owner said they were all "ready to go."
Anyway, I love her and I'm sure all of this will be worth it. I won't even go into all the crate training we've been doing but she's done wonderful with that. We put her in her crate at night at 9 and she sleeps all night til 5:30 a.m. and she has not wet or pooed.
Oh the things a dog owner will talk about!! haha!
Here are some new pics. If you look closely, you will see on my carpet some stains of cleaned poop and pee (does not always come up well) and some leaves that were brought in by the constant going in and out. Thankfully, we will be getting new carpet when she's trained. (we had planned this even before getting her). I've also included some pics of my hands, you ought to see under the bandages and on my arms that are covered up. They never said puppy-hood with a Lab would be this rough. But I'm betting it will be worth it. I hope so anyway.
