Pup-Pee Team: 42

Puppy: 27

Bottles of Liquid Ate: 1 (Yes, we finally finished one!)

Alright! Who took our angel puppy and replaced him with the devil dog? Can we have our cute, quiet little Zeke back please and not this terrorizing, biting, yapping creature! What a difference one week can make in the life of a puppy!

Zeke has finally discovered his voice and has been intent on using it whenever the phone rings, when we want to hold a meeting or when someone leaves the confines of the inner office. And it’s absolutely ear splitting! The neighboring offices must think we’ve hired Cruella de Vil and she’s torturing a room full of puppies!

Not to mention that anything within a foot from the ground now has teeth marks in it!

Zeke has also decided over the last few days, that even though he’s quite capable of using his Pet Loo, that he’d rather pee beside it, pee on his bed or pee behind our chairs. He enjoys playing with the paper towel when we clean up after him so much, that he will sometimes pee next to a fresh pee just so that more paper towel can be used.

It was time for the Office parents to put a foot down. Zeke’s movement around the office was cut off completely. He was reduced to a small area of linoleum in which he can play (lino is much easier to mop up than carpet) at all other times he was put on his leash and kept within the office.

By having Zeke on his leash, it made it much easier to keep him on The Pet Loo when it was time to do his business.

When he toilets successfully on his Loo, we reward him with a treat or playful pat. It’s far more effective to praise the heck out of your pup when they do the right thing, then it is to yell or punish them when they do the wrong thing.

That being said, after a few days of being on his leash Zeke began behaving well enough to be let off for a few hours every day. His toilet training was finally bounding (and weeing) in the right direction! He would run and play and yelp and bite, but whenever he felt the urge to go, he would dash up onto his Loo and ‘go wees’ without the assistance (or persistence) of an office parent!