This past week, the floors in Dukie’s Room (the Living and Dining room) had been under repairs due to water damage. As a result, things had to be moved around. His usual mat he sits on to let everyone know he needs to go do his business was moved into the kitchen and the like.
Dukie has recently kept peeing on the floor. I am not too sure if it is as a result of the changes to his room. But I would like to solidfy his housetraining. Dukie is now at his Aunt’s place while the floor is being repaired. But when he comes back today, I am going to be restarting the failed crate training sessions.
Since I got him in November 2005, I’ve been crate training him in a 30″ deep metal crate. However, I suspect due to the large size of the crate, it did not give Dukie a den like feeling. As a result, Dukie just kept peeing and krapping all over the crate.
I just purchased a 24″ deep crate which I am optimistic would help create the den like environment that Dukie would need to get the den like feeling established. With that established, Dukie would hopefully know not to do his business in his crate. I would post the results of this new training technique when if it does work.
For your information, the Canadian Dachshund Rescue is having their fifth annual picnic on September 9, 2006 in Mississauga. I am hoping to bring Dukie there to chillout with the other Dachshunds. If you are interested in going, details are as follows:
Canadian Dachshund Rescue Picnic
Saturday, Sep 9, 2006 at 11am - 4pm
Meadowvale Conservation Park “Area C”
Mississauga ON
http://www.wienerdogrescue.com/
Also, I just came across this article on the internet. Some people make me sick. This guy should be locked up for being so cruel - just like that heartless Cop (Officer Eric Hall of Cookeville, TN) who shot a dog in Tennessee
Annetta Lindsey got an apology, but it wasn’t much consolation.
Lindsey was holding her suffering 14-year-old dachshund, Coco, when a police officer arrived at her house on East Jackson Street on Saturday night. Coco was bleeding and foaming from his nose and mouth and convulsing.
A man had picked up a board with a nail driven through the end and struck Coco in the head with it, causing a puncture wound.
The man, who showed up at the house looking for someone but had the wrong address, apparently said Coco nipped at him as if to bite him. Lindsey said the man had been teasing the dog, which was tied up on the front porch.
She went in the house and a short time later heard a cracking sound and a yelp from Coco. When she ran to investigate, she found that the man had walked over to a trash receptacle next door, where workers are rehabilitating a house, returned to the porch and struck Coco once.
“Coco was lying there gasping for air. I tried to get him to get up, but he couldn’t get up,” Lindsey said. “The officer came and made Coco come to me. She said he was dying. I told animal control when they came to please save him.”
Coco survived the weekend but was euthanized Monday morning because of repeated seizures, an animal control officer later told Lindsey.
Two friends sitting on her porch at the time said Coco barked at the man but did not try to bite him.
She said the man responsible for Coco’s injury later apologized but that the apology won’t bring her beloved pet back to her.
“He took off because I was going to hit him with the same damn stick he hit my dog with,” Lindsey said Monday morning. “He came back after the police left. He apologized and said, ‘If I can help you, I’ll get you another dog.’”
The man left before police arrived. He was not immediately located. He was described as black, in his late teens or early 20s, with dark skin and short hair. He was wearing a white and red ball cap.
She said Coco, who stayed both inside and outside, had been the victim of repeated taunting by neighborhood teenagers. Children would kick him, shoot him with paintball guns and try to hurt him, Lindsey said. He had no teeth because someone had kicked him in the face.
“He was friendly. He loved kids. He loved the women,” she said, adding that the dog cared for three kittens - Eat ‘Em, Cheat ‘Em and Beat ‘Em - that live on her porch. “Everybody knew Coco.”
She said she intends to move out of her house, where she has lived for 12 years, as soon as possible because it reminds her of Coco and her deceased boyfriend, who gave her Coco nine years ago.
Saturday’s incident is the latest report of animal cruelty in Springfield in recent weeks.
City police said they have written 13 abuse, cruelty or neglect reports so far in 2006. They stressed that Sangamon County Animal Control statistics more accurately reflect animal cruelty reports in Springfield, but those numbers were not available Monday.
