I’m officially obsessed with Game of Thrones. I’m definitely not getting out enough. This puppy has taken over my life. So I’ve made my life about getting him potty trained and watching men fight ’til the death. The potty training isn’t going as well as Thrones binging. But I have to remember he’s only 9 weeks old and we’ve only had him for a little over a week. But it’s frustrating when he holds it for 7 hours at night then during the day, he does what he wants when it comes to urination. Not poo, just urination. He’ll go to the bathroom twice outside, then as soon as he comes inside, he goes again. Right on the carpet.
So I understand the small bladder thing, but if he can hold it for 7 hours, there’s absolutely no reason for him to let it go 5 minutes after already going. He even hopped up on the couch and pissed on a pillow right next to me. Straight up. Do you think it’s some sort of dominance thing? Or hatred for me thing? I don’t know. I don’t get it. I feel like how my parents probably felt when I was a teenager. Just at a loss for what to do. I even cried the other night out of frustration. I keep trying to listen to all the advice and be a good mom, but it feels like it’s not working. We take him out all the time, we reward him with a treat and say “good boy, potty outside” every time he does it outside. He even looks to us for a treat when he goes outside, so he knows he’s doing something right. But it doesn’t seem to be enough. Today I’m going to go get a bell for us to use every time we go out so he knows to ring it. I’m hoping that’s the miracle to all of our potty training issues.
It was funny the other day when someone said that babies come after dogs. I feel the complete opposite now. If I had questioned having a child before, there’s no way now. If I’m stressed out by a dog that pees about a tablespoon full of liquid, how could I ever handle a child? Impossible. I don’t understand how parents do it. I think I’ll just stick to trying to master raising a puppy and understanding what they are saying on Game of Thrones.
So back to that show. I’m obsessed with it, but I’m not 100% sure that I love it. It’s pretty effed up. I mean, when you kill animals and children in a show, it’s pretty bad. Adults, whatever. It happens in pretty much every show. But horses. Don’t ever kill a horse. I have to cover my eyes every time something frightening like that happens. I’m not really into death. But I’m super into the dragon girl. I can’t wait until her dragon messes some bad people up. I’m jealous of her dragons. I bet they were easily potty trained.
Easy Chocolate Almond Butter Cups
- Yield: 8-10 1x
Ingredients
- 1 cup smooth almond butter
- 1/2 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
- 1 tablespoon honey
- pinch of salt
- 1 cup Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips, melted
Instructions
- Place almond butter, coconut, coconut oil, honey and salt in a food processor and puree until smooth and well combined.
- Add a spoonful of the mixture into 8-10 mini muffin tins then pour melted chocolate on top of each spoonful. (no you don’t need to grease the tins)
- Place in freezer for 30+ minutes until set.
- Use a sharp knife to pop out each almond butter cup. Store in freezer and remove 5 minutes before eating to help soften the chocolate.
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Juli- I sent you an email about housebreaking your puppy or even an adult dog. It works EVERY DAMN time!
I have a senior pug that we are helping to remind him about where he goes potty. I am sure the neighbors are thinking I am nuts because during the reteaching process, I am jumping up and down in my yard having a party every time he goes potty.
Puppies are still learning to train their bladder muscle so they can hold it. It takes constant monitoring on your part too. Let me know if you have any questions after you read the email instructions.
Gretchen,
Could you forward me that email (turbogaldawn@gmail.com) about potty training too. We just got our first puppy on Friday and we certainly could use some advice on potty training as well. Thank you so much!
Can you also send me the link for the potty training email???
This recipe rocks! Thank you. I wish I had time for TV shows. I get up, go to the box, come home make smoothy, drink smoothy while surfing the net, clean up, take pup for walk, make meal, shower, work, come home at 10pm, walk pup, go to bed and repeat!
As for pup, a male dog marks by peeing. If you take him out walk him for a good half hour. If he does his business allow him to run around supervised in the house for 20 minutes. The moment he starts sniffing for a place to pee, pick him up and go outside again. If he doesn’t pee the put him in the crate for a bit and after another half hour take him outside. The key is to never allow him to run around inside unsupervised until he is trained. After potty training keep up the crate training, because then comes the chewing.
I watched the first episode of that show yesterday and couldn’t believe what the heck happened in 1 show…I don’t know if I can get into it. I have plenty of other awesome Bravo TV shows to watch…LOL I just said that out loud. DOH!
I literally saw episode one yesterday too! Looking forward to somehow working out the details in the coming episodes
Hi. Has your pup been fixed? We had our “boys” fixed as soon as possible so they didn’t get in to the territorial marking habit. He may be peeing on the pillow because it smells like boyfriend and he doesn’t like that 🙂 (as opposed to doing it because he doesn’t love you!!)
nope, we can’t do that until 6 months
Do you have the nutritional breakdown of these and all your great recipes? I have a husband who is dealing with one issue, a niece dealing with cancer so avoiding many sweetners and counting carbs, and I have some stomach issues and need to know calories, fat, carbs and protein or I can’t make any of them.
no, i’m sorry
so easy. copy and paste all ingredients at once into recipe. http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/recipe_analysis.phpkeep an eye as you may need to make minor changes so it recognizes ingredient.
These look awesome, easy, and just replenished my stash of enjoy life choc chips so perfect timing. Half of the battle of parenting is getting kids to eat enough stuff that isn’t complete garbage so clearly you would be an awesome mommy 😉 big thanks from my kids and me!
I just made these (they’re still setting- can’t wait to taste them!) and I don’t know if I have super mini muffin cups or what, but mine filled the entire 24 cups, with some to spare!! I did make a couple of changes based on what I had on hand- only had 1/2 cup Enjoy Life chips so I chopped up a Theo 70% bar for the rest, and was out of honey so used a few drops of vanilla stevia instead. Can’t wait to try them!
that’s crazy!! my mine must not be very mini!
Jenny – I just posted about this same thing before I saw your post. Mine were all filled as well with the almond butter mixture to spare.
i wanted to name our baby Kaleesi (or however the heck you spell it) because she is so awesome but my hubby refused… good thing we had a boy!
Just made them and they were awesome except they stuck to the muffin pan and so came out in pieces. Eating crumbs is not beneath me.
Just made these! Can’t wait to try them…LOVE all your recipes. So easy and with ingredients that I can pronounce and buy at the local grocery store!
Gave you a shout out in today’s blog post…keep the good recipes coming!
http://southernersinthesuburbs.wordpress.com/2014/04/07/fitness-monday/