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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What can I substitute the Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips with here in Australia?? We don’t have those here. Many thanks
Any dark chocolate chips!
DUDE really? These are going to be next in line of favorite recipes. Right behind the sweet potato brownies (I’ve made them like 20 times in the last year.. it’s kind of stupid.) Anyway, thanks for posting this! We have 2 dogs, they’re great. Kids? No. I’m 33 and the thought or concept of having kids just escapes me. I can take my dogs everywhere, leave them in the car, leave them at home, whatever. They’re great. Kids? No.
And Game of Thrones? We’re addicted and have been. I hate it when they kill the wolves. That shit really bugs me! SO MUCH. And horses dying too really freaks me out. I’m with you 100%. Adults? Whatever. It’s the torture stuff that’s hard to watch, and animals in pain.
If you love GoT you might like Boardwalk Empire. That’s our other addictive show. And The Americans. I swear we don’t watch that much TV but those are the 3 favorites. 🙂
Thanks again! Can’t wait to try these. I’ll shut up now.
Those look amazing! I am so making those tomorrow. I love your website. Lately I have been reading your CrossFit posts. I’m one month into it and loving it! When my dog was a pup we took him out every two hours during the night, after every nap, after every play time, and whenever he started sniffing around. It just takes time and consistency. Good luck!
whoops! left them in the freezer too long and they’re frozen solid and can’t get them out of the muffin pan! any suggestions on what to do? leave them out to slightly thaw or just throw them out and start over?
As a trainer, pups can go all night before they can go longer times during the day because they are asleep, not active and usually don’t have access to water. During the day, they are up and around, active, drinking water so they will have to go more. Kind of like us humans. Another trainer source if desired is APDT.
This recipe looks yummy!!
How do you melt chips to be able to pour? Mine is always too thick or end up burnt
That just means you’re cooking the chocolate for too long. If you are making them in the microwave, cook for 20 seconds then stir and repeat until chocolate is smooth. Sometimes just mixing the chocolate in the bowl will help smooth the chocolate out before it totally melts in the microwave
I’m making these asap. They look so good!!
Puppy- puppies do a “double-wee” as I like to call it (LoL). So he should pee twice usually outside before coming in. If he doesn’t go twice, bring him back in, crate him, wait 5 minutes and take him back out to his spot. This should alleviate the problem. I had issues with one of my dogs who would go a bit then go all over the wood floors in a zigzag pattern about 20mins later inside. After revisiting my own training background advice (lol, always easier to train other’s dogs than your own, trust me!), I reminded myself they usually go twice when they are so young.
I used Woodstock’s almond butter which is soupier than other brands, so the melted chocolate kind of sunk into the cups. Other than that I ran out of chocolate since I was able to fill a whole 24-mini muffin tin! Awesome recipe though and super easy, ready to take a second stab at it soon.
Just made these – amazing! And stupid easy…I was able to make them while holding a fussy 9 month old on one hip. Win!
This could have been written for me. We got a puppy the day after Christmas. Worst winter every to try to train a puppy! If it wasn’t snowing a foot, it was negative temps. Poor guy was afraid of the outdoors. Thank God it’s spring, we’ll see how he is in a thunderstorm! I feel your pain 🙂