Carolyn i have a little Schnauzer little miniature Schnauzer
oh
what do you have
well it's kind of a mixed breed that we got from the Humane Society
uh you know those make the best animals uh pets best pets
my uh son has a uh oh it's a real mixture it's part uh
Doberman and part Husky
yes and they gentlest dog you ever met and they got him from the uh Humane Society here in Oklahoma City
oh my
oh
and she's just turned out to be a jewel
my my little Schnauzer is is my friend she is so spoiled she's a year and a half old now
and being single
she's become very important in my life
uh-huh
it's so nice to have come home and find something or someone who's really so happy to see you
well my children are the ones that wanted our pet and this one is probably the best one that we have had
um as i say we got it from the Humane Society and uh we had lost a pet and we really went there looking for the one that we had lost it got out under the fence while we were on vacation and
we just looked all over for it and couldn't find it but uh when we walked in to the
to the Humane Society this little dog was uh in the office and would sit up and beg and just oh he was so cute and the kids just fell in love with it we just couldn't leave without it
but it's um whoever had it before must have trained it real well
because it's just you know it's uh a good house dog
i've never had one that i could keep in the house before and tolerate it
sometimes i wish i had not gotten this one as a puppy
because i work and i'm not home
uh-huh
and unfortunately she's not as well trained as
as i would like her to be
um-hum
and i realize it's my fault i'm not
doing a really great job as a disciplinarian
but uh
it's hard to do that when you're not there constantly
it is it is she's you know
she's real good i can leave her all day in the bathroom
with her toys and her food and everything and and not one mess does she make and then we go outside
hm
oh
and she'll stay outside for oh thirty minutes to an hour
come inside and use the restroom
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i just want to kill her at those times
oh
but she's a doll she's a love she really is
about the only time we have well i shouldn't say the only time but most of the time when we have problems with restroom is in the night
and uh she usually stays inside at night we try to take her out right before we go to sleep
but uh sometimes it doesn't work
you know i i
we always had a pet when i was growing up oh always had a dog my mother did not like cats
so we always had a dog and and then course when my children were growing up we always had a dog and always said it's because
the children wanted the pet
um-hum
and i find that i'm enjoying this one far more than i ever did when it was the children's dog
oh
i uh in fact my children gave me this this little puppy for Christmas
what a cute idea
yeah i think so
well we got one one year for Christmas and uh i had a baby the next day
oh my goodness
and uh
so that one wasn't really well trained
two babies huh
oh
oh i just didn't have time to take care of baby and train puppy at the same time so
that
that is really probably
bad timing
yeah i think it was it really was The older kids had wanted one though and you know we thought well that would be a fun time for them to have it you know get it at Christmas time it was a little Spitz with a little white
oh yes
fluffy and you know looked like it came right from the North Pole
and that was fun but um i I sure wasn't good at training it
uh-huh
do you
i think you have to have time you know to to do those things
and patience and you have to
you really have to be just like your children
when you set a rule you have to stand by it
and be consistent
that's right
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