I tried to find the post from a year ago where my dog was peeing on the carpet and I, starved for solutions, asked the web for answers. I got none. I’m trying again. The new monsoon season brought a new round of peeing on the carpet. Our dearest d-o-g has opted out of going outside, preferring to make my carpet his bitch. There are a few ways we can go about solving this. The most obvious is to rid ourselves of the canine infestation and thus the canine urinary elimination situation. However, the kids love the dog. I still consider him…family…
So I’m back at one. I have a dog who likes to soil my carpet and make my house stink of urine. I have a family that deserves better. What to do? Some of my plans for tomorrow include spraying the carpets with a lemon juice-based solution meant to keep the dog at bay, or at least unwilling to soil.
If anyone else has ides, I’m listening.
Some Thoughts:
- 24-21 loss in the 8-9 bball game taught me a valuable lesson: having more players is not a good thing. Our 3 wins came in games where we had a 9-10 player rotation where players could get comfortable with each other and get longer stretches on the court. Two of the 3 losses were in games where that wasn’t the case. Today’s loss was due to fairly obvious reasons. There was a 4 minute stretch early in the first quarter where we had 5 kids on the court that didn’t know how or care to play together as a unit. That unit turned a 4 point lead into 8 point deficit. The fact is, I should have called a timeout and threw in some other kids to help, but I didn’t. Coaching 101, man. That’s something I will work on.