This is Episode 8 of the podcast. And we are still on Poodle. Although we have reached the penultimate Poodle haiku.
Jesus poodle, pee
I know you want to just go
In to pee on floor.
Oh Poodle. He was so much work. And stubborn. I guess that is the prerogative of living to an advanced age. Life on your own terms.
We have a dog door – our other dogs go in and out as they want and need. Accidents on the floor are unheard of. If it ever happened they would put on a show of deep guilt and regret.
Not Poodle. I did try in the beginning to show – as much as you can show a blind dog anything – the dog door. But Poodle was way past using that. He would simply swat wherever and whenever he wanted to. And there is little point reprimanding an old blind and deaf dog.
Poodle was a lot of work. And stubborn. We tried very hard to time his trips to Middle Earth to catch when he needed to pee. We would spend a lot of time up in Middle Earth – sometimes he would wander, sometimes just stand, sometimes he would pee.
At times, infuriatingly, we would spend an ungodly amount of time in Middle Earth only to come back inside and he would pee within minutes on the floor.
Yeah, old dogs don’t learn new tricks, they just teach us new patience.
Oh Poodle. Thank goodness for Skout’s Honor – that stuff works incredibly well. It really was a sanity saver for me.
I don’t regret a single moment with Poodle. I one hundred percent recommend giving an old abandoned dog a chance of comfort and happiness in their last few years. But keeping a bottle of Skout’s Honor or Nature’s Miracle in the cupboard is always a good idea.
In the end it isn’t about the floor.