Aaaahh Scrubby. He continues to make me laugh. Dalmatians are known for their stubbornness. But they are also known for great personality. Scrubs seriously seems like a human sometimes!Right before bed, we always make Scrubs get up and go potty. Here's a video of Scrubs' groggy wake-up from back before Isaac joined our family.
Once he has gone potty and returned to his bed, I give him a treat.
Now that we have the fenced backyard, he goes out the sliding glass door and returns to wait for us to open when he is done. However, I have been watching and Scrubs has been faking going potty. He'll walk outside, stand on the grass for a second, and then trot back to the sliding glass door to get up in his bed and get his treat!
Little stinker!
So now we watch carefully. If he doesn't go, we send him back to really go potty. Then he can have his treat. He will actually sort of sigh, turn around, and slink back to the grass to really go. So funny.
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I also wanted to answer a blog question I received regarding Scrubs and the possibility of us going overseas. As I have mentioned previously on the blog, we are currently leaning toward the hope that when we leave Eglin in the summer of 2010, we will get an overseas station. It is all up to the military of course, but this is what we are hoping for. Someone asked if Scrubs can come with.
The answer is yes, absolutely. There's a lot of work that needs to be done. You have to start the dog on a series of shots six months before you leave. This means we'll have to start him before we would actually even know if we are going. A few countries require a very short quarantine period upon the dog's arrival in their country (48 hours maximum I believe.)
The major trick with taking him is that most airlines require the temperature be fairly cool (below 70 degrees F. I believe) in order to allow the dog into the cargo hold. I doubt we'll obtain that in a summer here on Eglin AFB. I have already talked to our great friends Ron & Ebby in Minnesota and they have agreed to keep Scrubs with them in Minnesota until the weather is good enough for him to fly out and join us. Hopefully, if we fly out of Minnesota, it'll be cool enough right away. But if not, it shouldn't take long to get to that point.
I have heard this can be a pretty pricey flight to get our pup over there, but honestly, I wouldn't go if we couldn't bring Scrubs. He is a part of our family, and he'll be joining us wherever we go!
1 comment:
Sounds as if our pups have been talking! We were trying to fatten our other dalmatian up by adding treats to the potty routine (we never did that before), but my girl, also a dalmatian, figured it out real quick. She would come back inside and sniff his mouth - she's no dumb dog! He died recently, and now she still expects treats after coming back inside. She will whine to go out, not even step off the porch and turn around to come back in, licking her chops.
Dalmatians are stubborn, and they have great personalities. Some people say that they are stupid and don't learn easily. I say those people don't know dalmatians. My two are some of the smartest dogs I've ever seen! They are thinkers rather than pleasers... "ok, if i get up on this side of the couch and they say no, maybe it'll be different if i get up on the other side of the couch." Or "sit"... "ok, i can do it, but what's in it for me?!" They are, indeed, smart dogs and quick learners - just might not go exactly as you planned it! =)
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