Adina P's Blog – January 2009 Archive (5)

Who wants a doodle sweater???

My labradoodle Rosco is making a donation to the materials

This is what I brushed & combed off of him tonight -- first brushing since his bath 8 days ago. He doesn't mat easily and I prefer him shaggy so I held… Continue

Added by Adina P on January 19, 2009 at 8:35pm — 9 Comments

Rosco and Thule met 4 DK Doodles at a Mini Backyard Romp

Today Lauren (Gracie & Bella), Trasa with Noulli, and Poki and his lab brother and owners joined us for a mini romp in my backyard. It was freezing but so much fun to see all the furry tails running and bouncing around.

Gracie and Bella are littermates with Poki. Lauren has mentioned a few times that Gracie and Bella are… Continue

Added by Adina P on January 18, 2009 at 5:30pm — 7 Comments

As Rosco Wees

It's time for another installment of "As Rosco Wees"...

We made significant progress yesterday! While the chicken broth idea has not taken form ( I don't cook meat, so the motivation to buy a chunk of chicken isn't very high ) -- I did use tuna again.. two cans worth (well WE humans ate the tuna...)!

What I did is drain off the tuna liquid into a plastic container... then rinsed out the tuna cans into that same container.

Next, I froze the tuna water.

Finally, I… Continue

Added by Adina P on January 7, 2009 at 11:30am — 5 Comments

The Rosco - Water - Pee Experiment CONTINUES

Someone had suggested I try giving Rosco diluted broth to encourage him to drink more earlier in the day.

Today after I had used up a can of tuna for me and Clark...I had an idea! Since there was a smidgen of tuna left in the can (just enough to make a dog want to lick out the can) I rinsed the can into a doggy water bowl and then added more water and after some re-assurance that YES the tuna water was for HIM... Rosco drank that up with glee!

So tomorrow I will buy some… Continue

Added by Adina P on January 4, 2009 at 5:00pm — 7 Comments

The Rosco - Water - Pee Experiment

I started cutting off Rosco's water supply at 7pm (give or take 10-15 min) 4 days ago:

Day 1 (New Year's Eve) -- last potty break at midnight -- no potty in the middle of the night -- success!

Day 2 -- last potty break around 10pm -- He woke us up in the middle of the night for potty -- fail!

Day 3 -- last potty break...10-11? -- We were up VERY late and when something else woke him up we sent him out so don't know if he would have gotten up or… Continue

Added by Adina P on January 3, 2009 at 9:00pm — 6 Comments