Thanks, Lisa.
She sleeps in the crate at night, I was concerned about leaving her
in it all day while we were at work. Isn't that too much? :-/ With
our various schedules it might be up to 8 hrs during the day time.
Thanks,
Lynn
On Oct 8, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Lisa wrote:
Hi Lynn,
I am a new Chi owner as well. My Chi, Trooper, is a little over 6
mos. now and still not quite housetrained. He goes outside most of
the time but still has accidents at the kitchen door (where he goes
out). What has helped though, it crate training. When you aren't
able to watch Gabby, I would recommend putting her in a
crate...especially when you are gone from the house. Chi's can be
quite destructive! Trooper loves his crate and will rest in it
during the day (his bed and blankie is in there) and will go in at
night when I say "It's time for night night!"
Small dogs in general hate the rain and do not like having to go
outside to potty when it's raining. You may have to pick Gabby up
and take her outside and stand there while she does her business.
It helps to have an umbrella...Trooper like me to hold it over him
so he won't get wet! LOL! Although Trooper isn't as bad as the
Maltese I once had...that dog HATED to go outside...PERIOD!
Good luck with Gabby...I know you'll find out the source of her
fears of the rain and help her to confidently go potty outside once
again!
--- In [email protected], Lynn Galliano
<galliano.gang@...> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I joined this group because in July we adopted a rescued Chi mix
> (don't know for sure but we think terrier) who was 4 months old at
> the time. She is super smart (her name is Gabby) and funny,
> talkative, has very long legs and can jump over our basset hound
like
> a reindeer, she's wonderful in every way. We potty trained her in
> one week's time. Then last week it began raining here (Northern
> California). She refused to go outside through the dog door, and
> though we still walked her, has now "forgotten" how to go potty
> outside. She is going all over the house. She never had other
> issues either until the rain, but we came home to our leather sofa
> torn up and unstuffed and the kitchen wall chewed and plaster all
> over the floor. Has anyone else experienced this? Do I need to
> make her "warmer?" My husband hates dogs in clothing, but I need to
> do something because she won't go out now even when it's not raining
> and 70* outside :-( I notice she shakes a bit when its cold and
> loves the sun. All advice welcome, our 6 year old basset hasn't
> been as challenging so I'm not up on training as much as I should
be.
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Lynn
>
