Dobby has been odd lately. While he was a little difficult to housebreak, he's been doing really great most of the time, and we figure he's about a year old or so now. But on Saturday, I got up, took him out to poop and pee, and then brought him back in. When I got out of the shower, he'd pooped on the floor by the back door. After already pooping outside.
Yesterday, I got up, took him out, and while I was getting ready for work, my Mom was up and let Annie the Shih Tzu out. When she came back in with Annie, she found Dobby pooping on the floor by the door again. Usually if he sees her taking one of the other dogs out, he'll ask to go too if he has to. I can't just let him out off leash, because he squeezes out from the fence and goes into the neighbor's yard and it's a huge ordeal getting him back. Right now he doesn't even need to do that, since we're doing some work and the bricks we use as skirting on the house (a double-wide) are moved, so he can just go right under the house and be zip-gone.
Do we need to adjust his feeding schedule or is he doing this because he doesn't want me to go to work? A fellow animal lover in the pharmacy says maybe he's acting out because he knows I'm leaving. He doesn't do this on my days off or the days I don't go in until late afternoons.
Yesterday, I got up, took him out, and while I was getting ready for work, my Mom was up and let Annie the Shih Tzu out. When she came back in with Annie, she found Dobby pooping on the floor by the door again. Usually if he sees her taking one of the other dogs out, he'll ask to go too if he has to. I can't just let him out off leash, because he squeezes out from the fence and goes into the neighbor's yard and it's a huge ordeal getting him back. Right now he doesn't even need to do that, since we're doing some work and the bricks we use as skirting on the house (a double-wide) are moved, so he can just go right under the house and be zip-gone.
Do we need to adjust his feeding schedule or is he doing this because he doesn't want me to go to work? A fellow animal lover in the pharmacy says maybe he's acting out because he knows I'm leaving. He doesn't do this on my days off or the days I don't go in until late afternoons.
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