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Old 09-21-2009, 01:53 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Teaching an oldER dog new tricks

So I found a good home for Ginger and they've had her for a week but their problem seems to be that she will not go potty for them on a leash. When I got her she was a kennel dog her whole life but she was housetrained. Don't know how that happened unless it just happened when puppies where inside. So that's what she knows, to potty outside which is good but these people are retired and they want her to potty on a leash. The vet told them to give her 3 weeks to see if they can teach her to do this. I'm saying that if they have her for 4 weeks and then decide they don't want her, I'm getting her back with behaviors I didn't start. It's a tad frustrating at this point. I'm getting the sinking feeling that they want me to train her to do this and bring her back to them trained. I don't have that kind of time and I'm not one to continue to offer free handouts. I already offered to groom her a bit for them but then they wanted me to groom her for free indefinitely. I can't commit to that and that's a ton of money to invest in a dog that no longer belongs to me.
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