“I love the feeling of standing in cold wet pee in the morning,” not! Don’t get me wrong I like all dogs but from time to time, they act like… well… dogs. I have to remind myself sometimes that they are dogs. However, it’s a very quick reminder at 4:30 in the morning when you are standing in pee in your bare feet that you live with dogs.
We have a dog door and all of the dogs know how to use it and they do most of the time. The times when they don’t like to use it, is when it is cold and wet outside. My tough little Jack Russell terriers don’t want to get there little feet wet… spoiled dogs and two males to boot.
I have a really old (about 17 years old) non-flyball Dachshund mix and she has a hard time getting out the dog door, and one of my Border collies (male also) sleeps in a crate at night near my bed (he sleeps in the crate for a peeing problem too). He wakes me almost every morning wanting to go out. This is our morning ritual… I get up every morning to let him out and make sure my old dog goes out also. At 4:30 in the morning, I don’t like to put lights on because after the dogs are out I head back to the bed for another hour of sleep except for mornings I’m standing in cold wet pee.
I would put my Jacks in crates too but they drive me nuts. One starts chirping and the other walks the crate and will start barking wanting out. I think the only answer is Bellybands for the Jacks. The dogs pictured are not my dogs but they look just like my two. They were breed by the same breeder, Margaret Byrd of Hi Cotton Kennels.
Does anyone else have this probably with there terriers?
Larry
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Yup…. my JRT will also not go out in the rain. He chooses the dining room carpet since it is the least frequently used room in the house he considers it “not part of the den”… sometimes I think my JRT is part cat.
Ok, this is a little off the topic, but our male JRT - who ADORES my 8 year old son, sleeps with him, follows him everywhere and waits for him to come home from school; I have to lock him out of the bathroom when my son is taking a bath, cause Stalker will jump in with him…but the other day, my son was taking a shower…I pull back the curtain to find my son and Stalker the JRT in there with him - fully under the stream!
But, in answer to your question, no I don’t have that problem.
Jackie
Franny, our pit bull, must be taken out back on leash and forced to stand there until she does both pee and poop when it rains. Sometimes we even have to walk her around the block to get her to go. She always wears a raincoat as well (of course!).
Us pit bull folks always thought it was a pit bull thing!
Maybe it’s a terrier thing no matter what size?!?!
Jackie,
My Jacks are that way too… extremely loyal and they have to with you all the time. My wife has her Jack, I have mine, and they follow us around the house. If we are sitting watching TV in the evening we each have our own sitting right there with us. They sleep on a stool at the foot of our bed and that’s probably why they don’t like being in crates at night.
Tracy,
I think it is a terrier thing. This is probably one of many “terrier things.”
I’m wondering if it’s a ‘little dog’ thing vs. a terrier thing because my IG/Chi cross absoutely refuses to go out if it’s raining out. I have to carry her out and then she just stands there and shakes (but doesn’t pee!). I have to take an umbrella out with me if it’s raining or snowing but once her feet are wet she just doesn’t want anything but to get back into the house. She whines and pulls on the leash to get back to the safety fo the porch. It’s going to be a longggggggg winter in snowy New England if I can’t find a solution! *SIGH*
Glad to hear it Larry. Jack are probably another breed people think are “tough” but they’re really velcro dogs that enjoy creature comforts.
Franny is 58 pounds of muscle that truly feels like the rain will cause her to melt or something. I almost pray for dry winters around here because fighting with her every morning is not fun.
She also had a large selection of sweaters, coats and fleece-wear to combat the frigid cold of Northern California.
They are delicate flowers after all!
I vote terrier thing.
Miss Maddie is a tall thin Pit Bull. If she even smells rain outside when I open the door she runs up to the kitchen with the look “Please Please no MOM! I can’t don’t make me do it. It will hurt!”.
And lets not even talk about if the ground is wet or muddy - she ends up going on the outside steps . Same with snow. She won’t have any of it!
Rotties are definately not terriers and not usually thought of as anything but tough - we’ve got one who won’t potty in rain. I can barley get him off the porch and that’s only if he’s going to explode.
Now snow, on the otherhand, that’s pure joy for our boy - he’ll stay out there as long as possible and the flakes look great on his broad back when he brings them back in the house!
I love it when I get up in the morning and all 6 dogs are frothing and have a fit to get out the door until I open it. RAIN!!!! Everybody slides to a screaching halt. Border Collies, Jack Russells and Border Jack one and all look at me as if to say, “That’s okay, we’ll just use the dinning room.”
My 100lb lab is the same way… “I can’t, I’ll melt!!!” Some water dog…
We are finally getting the rain we so desperately need here in the southeast US. This morning it was raining so hard none of the dogs wanted to step foot outside. We had to take some of them out with a leash but then I remembered the Laser. My Jacks will chase that Laser anywhere so I got the Laser light, opened the door, and ran them outside with it. After chasing it for a few minutes outdoors, I went in while they continued to search. We had to towel them off they were so wet. I hope the finally did something out there?
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