They're both driving me INSANE!
Every day I come home and Tiki and pooed and/or peed on the floor.. even today when she was outside a half an hour earlier.. just before Steve went to work.. a HALF HOUR! She was only here a half hour alone and she felt the need to poo AND pee!!!!!
Squid's been peeing randomly.. not when he's home alone.. when we're here.. and there's not even any warning.. no whining.. no circling.. no sniffing.. he'll just be wandering about being himself then all of a sudden there's pee squirting out of him!! He peed on the bed the other night.. this morning I got up and walked down the stairs with him to let him out to pee and just before he got to the door he started peeing!
All I've been doing this past week and a half is cleaning up poo and pee.. I'm so tired of it! The carpets are gross.. they're big dogs so when they pee they REALLY pee.. sigh..
AND it's been raining for over a week here.. so there's mud everywhere.. GACK! I just really don't want to be a dog owner right now.. I'm so freaking sick of all this.. I feel like I'm such a failure.. I assume it's because I'm working now.. but even still they aren't home all day alone.. me and steve usually have opposite shifts so most days they're only here a couple hours alone..
Squids also being a complete brat.. and NOTHING is working! He wants me to play fetch with him and he'll run up, drop the ball and bark if I don't throw it right away.. if I still don't do anything he'll keep up the barking.. I've tried ignoring him.. yelling no.. spraying him.. nothing is working... I'm really starting to feel I'm not cut out for this at all.. If I don't let him do what he wants whenever he wants he barks at me.. repeatedly.. It's really getting to me.. I'm in tears writing this.. I just feel so useless.. I feel like I'm just going to burst or something.. I dread coming home now.. GOD! He's doing it right now! He wanted up in my lap I said no.. and he's barking at me!!!
Please help!
Every day I come home and Tiki and pooed and/or peed on the floor.. even today when she was outside a half an hour earlier.. just before Steve went to work.. a HALF HOUR! She was only here a half hour alone and she felt the need to poo AND pee!!!!!
Squid's been peeing randomly.. not when he's home alone.. when we're here.. and there's not even any warning.. no whining.. no circling.. no sniffing.. he'll just be wandering about being himself then all of a sudden there's pee squirting out of him!! He peed on the bed the other night.. this morning I got up and walked down the stairs with him to let him out to pee and just before he got to the door he started peeing!
All I've been doing this past week and a half is cleaning up poo and pee.. I'm so tired of it! The carpets are gross.. they're big dogs so when they pee they REALLY pee.. sigh..
AND it's been raining for over a week here.. so there's mud everywhere.. GACK! I just really don't want to be a dog owner right now.. I'm so freaking sick of all this.. I feel like I'm such a failure.. I assume it's because I'm working now.. but even still they aren't home all day alone.. me and steve usually have opposite shifts so most days they're only here a couple hours alone..
Squids also being a complete brat.. and NOTHING is working! He wants me to play fetch with him and he'll run up, drop the ball and bark if I don't throw it right away.. if I still don't do anything he'll keep up the barking.. I've tried ignoring him.. yelling no.. spraying him.. nothing is working... I'm really starting to feel I'm not cut out for this at all.. If I don't let him do what he wants whenever he wants he barks at me.. repeatedly.. It's really getting to me.. I'm in tears writing this.. I just feel so useless.. I feel like I'm just going to burst or something.. I dread coming home now.. GOD! He's doing it right now! He wanted up in my lap I said no.. and he's barking at me!!!
Please help!