Guest accommodations

We are expecting  a lot of company this holiday weekend.  Mostly family members; some are traveling a couple of hundred miles to be here.  A regular family reunion over the Independence Day weekend.  We’re looking forward to a lot of fun! We’re going to have to pull out our queen size air mattress to set up in our family room for my brother and his wife to sleep on!  And our two twin size air mattresses for their kids.  I sure hope the dogs and cats don’t puncture them with their claws!

Can you litter train your dog?

My wife and I have a keeshond.  Yes, that’s a dog.  The dog originated in Holland, and was originally used as a companion and guard dog for the barges that go up and down the canals.  When you think about it, that seems to me that these dogs must have been litter trained.   I have to wonder how large the litter boxes must be on the barges, since the keeshond is not a very small dog!

I was reading an article on how to litter train a dog on a website that has a variety of pet care information on it.  Their advice was essentially to try to train small dogs (again basically because the size of the box!) but also they claim that the dogs will try to eat the kitty litter!  I’ve seen dogs go into litter boxes to eat what the cats have left behind, but never seen them eat clean litter!  That was a big surprise to me!