Angus went peepee in the house three times yesterday.  HOLY COW DID WE GET THE DUMBEST DOG EVER?!?!  No.  We didn’t.  (I don’t think?)  But we did get a shih-tzu, and they are notoriously hard to housebreak, especially in the winter.  If you didn’t know, shih-tzus are actually half cat so they have that imperious I Will Do Whatever I Want thing, in addition to a super short attention span and can’t remember anything.

That’s why Angus is now on a timer.

Every hour it beeps and every hour Angus goes outside.  This is to remind me not to forget to take him outside, which is the predominant reason he keeps having accidents.

Maybe I am half cat too.

(I actually don’t want to think about that for too long. Cats make me sneeze.)

We’re going to keep with the one hour timer for 2 weeks, then I’ll back him up to two hours, if he’s doing well.

We’ll get there.  Someday.

I keep reminding myself that Henry was so easy to housebreak because a.) we lived in a 750 square foot apartment, and we could block off the back 400 square feet, so it was really easy to keep track of him, and b.) IT WAS JULY.