What question do you want your dog to answer?
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. . .here are my thoughts.
What question do you want your dog to answer?
No matter how perfectly house-trained a dog is, they will pee or poo in the house if left alone long enough. On busy days, you might be gone for 10 hours or more. The first thing you do upon arriving home is usher the pup outside and watch the river flow—amazed a bladder could hold so much liquid. Other times you take only a quick jaunt to the store, returning within the hour to a couple tootsie rolls on the carpet. How is it that a dog decides when to stop holding their bowels or bladder? They can’t be sure exactly when their people are getting home. Surely they experience some tipping point like we humans have all reached:
“I really gotta pee. But this couch is so comfy. I can hold it until the end of this episode … I stand corrected!”
Might dogs get a similar feeling, thinking to themselves, “I’ll hold it. Mom should be home soon.” But what if “soon” passes and Mom has yet to walk through that door? As pressure in their abdomen releases, do our four-legged friends feel sorrow along with the relief?