Reverend JC
2500 gallons year to date
Ok, i really hope i do not get any flameing because of this. here goes;
Before the wife and i got married we got a dog. His name is professor flash. Very very good, gentle, obedient dog. When we got married we had made the mistake of telling an old boss that we would have like to have gotten a pure bred (just because). She took that to mean we wanted one, and she breeds Golden Retrievers. Guess what we got for our wedding? yeah, a dog. WTF!!! Coming from my boss i could not refuse it so we took it. Our 4 month old Flash was pretty much done being house broken and with the introduction of lucky, he started crapping on the floor again, both of them. This went on for 2 months and then i decided that since i had grown up with dogs strictly being outside animals that there must have been somthing to that and they became outside animals. We lived on 2 acres surrounded by cornfields. I would let them out when i got home and 2 or 3 hours later hollar for them. They would either be jacking around in the shed or in a near by creek and run back. They were happy, we were happy.
We moved into town going on 2 years ago to an older neighborhood where the old money is. the homes where the yards are not that big. It is fenced but they manage to always make it out and run, cuz thats what they are used too. The problem is i can no longer walk in the neighborhood and hollar for them like i could in the country. They are set in their dead thing rolling in ways to try to move into the house and our 5 year old is not attached to them at all. They are very good dogs for the most part, but i am afraid i am not doing them justice anylonger. I have a guy buying a family farm and would like to take one, but i am having a hard time doing that as i feel like i am giving up on them.
Am i doing the right thing by them finding them homes where they can run like they used too?
I feel like total crap because of it.
Edit: we have tried to train them to be in the house but that was not successful. The reason i bring all this up is our daughter is bugging us for a pet that she can have in the house.
Before the wife and i got married we got a dog. His name is professor flash. Very very good, gentle, obedient dog. When we got married we had made the mistake of telling an old boss that we would have like to have gotten a pure bred (just because). She took that to mean we wanted one, and she breeds Golden Retrievers. Guess what we got for our wedding? yeah, a dog. WTF!!! Coming from my boss i could not refuse it so we took it. Our 4 month old Flash was pretty much done being house broken and with the introduction of lucky, he started crapping on the floor again, both of them. This went on for 2 months and then i decided that since i had grown up with dogs strictly being outside animals that there must have been somthing to that and they became outside animals. We lived on 2 acres surrounded by cornfields. I would let them out when i got home and 2 or 3 hours later hollar for them. They would either be jacking around in the shed or in a near by creek and run back. They were happy, we were happy.
We moved into town going on 2 years ago to an older neighborhood where the old money is. the homes where the yards are not that big. It is fenced but they manage to always make it out and run, cuz thats what they are used too. The problem is i can no longer walk in the neighborhood and hollar for them like i could in the country. They are set in their dead thing rolling in ways to try to move into the house and our 5 year old is not attached to them at all. They are very good dogs for the most part, but i am afraid i am not doing them justice anylonger. I have a guy buying a family farm and would like to take one, but i am having a hard time doing that as i feel like i am giving up on them.
Am i doing the right thing by them finding them homes where they can run like they used too?
I feel like total crap because of it.
Edit: we have tried to train them to be in the house but that was not successful. The reason i bring all this up is our daughter is bugging us for a pet that she can have in the house.