Now I have to confess, I am a big fan of Jackie's books and blog! ( and, NO! I am not biased just because Jackie has a Cardigan Corgi in the family!!!) I loved the first two books so I was pretty sure #3 would not disappoint me. Well, House Trained is now my favorite to date! Yes! It is that good! I think Jackie took her plot development to the next level! This story had twists and turns I never saw coming! And for me that's what makes a book fun to read. I certainly don't want to have to issue any spoiler alerts so I will not be the one to divulge any of the surprises but just look at Jimmy's face and tell me he's not shocked! I think I heard him gasp!
Now, I'm not going to write a little blurb about what the story is about. Amazon can do a much better job than me, BUT I will do one thing Amazon won't....
I am going to give one lucky person their own copy of House Trained! I was going to buy myself a copy of the book just the very second it went on sale (October 20th!!!!), but then Jackie so generously offered me an advance copy. (Boy, did that ever make my day! Thank you, Jackie!) I am sure as heck not giving you that one. That one is staying in my personal library of great reads! But I will send you a brand new copy, one Wilson and Jimmy haven't drooled over!
Now, of course, if you have ever participated in any of my other giveaways, it's never quite as simple as just pulling your name from a hat (almost, but not quite!). I expect a little something in return in the form of entertaining comments. SO!
Tell me a funny story about the last time you tried house training a puppy or dog, or even your baby! I'll even start by telling my own little tale....
Years ago, when my first Cardigan Dylan was just a young pup, I knew nothing about using a crate. Dylan was always just free in my apartment. He was well on his way to being house trained. He knew perfectly well he was not supposed to pee or poop on the floor. So one day, while I was at work a bit longer than usual, poor Dylan had a bout of diarrhea. He could not wait for me to get home, but he also could not let it go on the floor. So smart boy that he was, he hopped up on my sofa and let it RIP! Hey, the sofa wasn't the floor, so no harm, no foul, right?! The sofa was one of those sectional styles and he managed to get lots of poop on every single piece! It was a pretty bad mess and I didn't even try to clean it. I just dragged the whole nasty thing out to the dumpster and started fresh!
OK! Your turn....tell me a funny story about house training!
PPS Jodi and Jackie, I want in on those margaritas!!! Don't you dare start without me!
Developing your English, are we?
ReplyDeleteBOL! well, we're not laughing at the couch, just the incident. Actually, with Dui there was no training. From 10 weeks, when he arrived there were no accidents in the house. Boy did I feel blessed.
ReplyDeleteOkay, obviously don't enter me, but I wanted to say thank you so much for the fun review! That look on Jimmy's face! (Pretty sure I know what scene he's at!) And, yes, you must join us for the margaritas! That would be awesome!
ReplyDeleteI'll share a funny house training story... It's not *exactly* about house training, but it's related. When we first got our beagle Bailey, we lived in an apartment. She used to be REALLY addicted to chasing the laser light and we had to "buzz her" (as we called it) every morning and every evening so she could get her fix. Well, this was in Canada and one day the weather was terrible so we were buzzing her up and down the hallway outside our apartment. She would get SO excited about the laser she couldn't process anything else. She was still a pup, but mostly house trained then, but mid-game, she just stopped and peed in the hall! No way was she going to interrupt her fave game to let us know she needed to go outside. We cleaned it up as best we could and got the heck outta there before anyone saw! (Thank heaven for no security cameras.) #BadResidents.
Great review, I also follow Jackie, love her and read one book which was great. This book sounds awesome. When I am potty training my chesapeakes it seems they gravitate to the hearth of fireplace and also have to drop logs on it. Wrong type of logs dogs!
ReplyDeleteI loved Jackie's first two books and I'm looking forward to reading this book...it'd be awesome if I won a copy! Okay, so all of my dogs have been adult rescues, so I don't have any house training stories...but my oldest dog is now in diapers, so I'm hoping that counts...
ReplyDeleteShe's big, I mean BIG, eighty-five pounds, and now that she is approaching 16, she can't quite hold it over night, and sometimes she has accidents during the day too, just "because." And even though she's wearing those doggie diapers, they don't contain ALL the mess, (I mentioned she's BIG right), so we've been vigilant at night.
Now, if she so much as gets up to circle, either me or my husband jump up and run her outside. Even if it's 3:00 AM! Sometimes, she even seems to forget why she's out there, so we remind her, "Go potty," "Go on, go potty," until she does...
Kind of funny how it comes full circle, and a dog that was formerly "house trained," no longer is. Guess that happens with us people too, doesn't it?
I am about done with the book, so don't enter me. But can I get in on the margaritas?
ReplyDeleteI'm going to have to read some of these books!! They sound awesome. I'm always on the hunt for the next book so I've just added Jackie to my list.
ReplyDeleteNow for our story so we can get in on the action. This one has to do with Tucker. He was probably one of the hardest puppies to house break, but thankfully it did finally happen. The funny story comes when we were at my parent's house helping decorate the Christmas tree. Tucker is just milling out doing his thing when all of a sudden I see him take a keen interest in smelling the base of the tree and getting into marking position ... you can see where this story leads. He did indeed try to mark the tree but missed as I was scrambling to grab him!! We still laugh about it and say he was just confused that trees aren't suppose to be inside.
Jackie's book sounds so awesome! I don't really have any funny stories about house training, though! Zoe came house trained and Phoenix we just had to brush her up on it. One time she did pee on our "settle" mat and I wonder if her previous family had puppy pad trained her or something! LOL! Luckily that was the only time she peed on it!
ReplyDeleteBoth Mr. N and our foster pup were house trained already. The first day we adopted Mr. N, he came home and marked our bed. He's never marked indoors since so I don't know what his deal was!
ReplyDeleteWell don't enter me, but great job with the review! This book is also my favorite Jackie book too! And of course you're invited for the margaritas. Now we just need to plan something!
ReplyDeleteI never fully house-trained my beagle, but we did do a good job with Sampson. When we first started I was told you can only correct him if you catch him and then you should pick him up and bring him outside so he knows that is where he was supposed to go. (What the hell did I know then? Nothing, but that's how we trained him and it worked.) Well he was SO good about not letting me catch him. The second I'd leave the room, he'd pee on the floor. But he only pooped in the house one time and here's that story.
I was sitting on the couch chatting with my nephew and I looked in the kitchen and there was Sampson popping a squat. I said, "He's shitting on my floor!" (Is that okay to say here?) LOL That's all I remember. :-)
I was lucky because my Lady Girl was basically "house-trained". She was raised in a no-kill shelter until the age of 3 to 4 yrs of age from mere puppyhood. She only had a couple of accidents. Oh, and one when we moved back to Texas. She marked her territory in the house, just once!!!
ReplyDeleteI guess I don't have any funny stories about housetraining, but my experiences with my two dogs were very different from each other. Shiloh was my first dog (well, second, but he came only a month after my first dog, who was an adult and didn't need to be housetrained). Shiloh has always been so easy, and house training was simple with him. I think he had two accidents in the house, and that was just because I hadn't figured out his signal yet. Wager, on the other hand, was a nightmare! He's a small sheltie, and when he came home with me, he was no bigger than a water bottle. But it was February in Upsate NY, and the temperature was 20 degrees below zero. I couldn't safely take him outside as often as I did with Shiloh (who had the opportunity to go out so often he just didn't have a chance to go in the house!). So I tried one of those fake grass stations. Such a pain. It *smelled* so bad, even when immediately cleaned (though to be fair, he had some stomach issues as a puppy). He always stepped in it and tracked everything all over the floor. It was a nightmare trying to convince him, once the whether was better, that he should go outside instead. Even after a long walk, he'd refuse to go then come in and go on the carpet or under the bed. Never again- I will never go through house training in the middle of winter again!
ReplyDeleteChase is a full grown Cardigan Welsh Corgi and house trained. I have several dog doors in the house (because I have several Cardigans). When I have my occasional litter of puppies, I litter train them first -- a rabbit drop pan about 1/3 full of pine stall pellets. They pick it up immediately. At about 5 weeks old, Chase teaches them to use the dog door from the puppy pen to acovered outdoor pen. He gathers them around him and goes out the doggy door. Of course the puppies are amazed that he disappears through the wall. So then he sticks his head back in and encourages the puppies to follow him. It generally takes them four or five false starts to realize that they too can walk through the wall. GoPro video on the next litter. I think their new homes appreciate Chase's efforts.
ReplyDeletehouse training? I finally have my 200 year old house able to sit on command...and it also does down stay too.
ReplyDeletesorry...puppy house breaking has not happened lately in our house (now the toddler on the other hand...)
Going outside in the dead of a New Hampshire winter, at 1am and 4am every night for a couple of months to house train James Bone was hilarious :)
ReplyDeleteI'm intrigued... I haven't read any of the books but now will look them up. Thank you! Not a funny housebreaking story but our older Lab had explosive diarrhea one day. You could see her path from door to door, upstairs and down as she tried to get out. Poor girl. Needless to say, we spent quite a bit of time cleaning up that mess.
ReplyDeleteStruggling with Jax. Since the move to SC he's been peeing in the house. There's no real explanation for it. I've even written a blog about it BACKSLIDING http://bit.ly/1GetSBb I pray this will pass real soon.
ReplyDeleteI have a copy as well so you don't need to enter me. I couldn't stop by your review and not say 3 things. #1 I LOVE LOVE LOVE Jackie's books! #2 Your review was great! After I finish reading I want to know where Jimmy was at with that adorable face! #3 how do we get in on the margaritas?! :-)
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