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Our dear little Laughlin hasn’t been such a dear lately. In fact, when I left for Ethiopia, he started peeing in the house… and hadn’t really stopped until about a month ago. We got to the point where we had him in diapers every day (a “male wrap”, they call it!) which was a temporary solution, as obviously I wasn’t cool with doing diapers for the next 15 years. Especally when I had avoided doing it with my kids.

So after a whole lot of effort (it wasn’t for lack of trying) and a LOT of frustration, we hired a dog trainer.  She came to house, and we devised a few schemes to stop Laughlin chasing the cat, which was a new thing due to an incident with an old feline scrapper down the block, and for him to finally stop peeing in the house.

Part of the solution is that he’s in this pen when he’s in the kitchen. We’ve gradually made it bigger over the last couple of weeks. The funny thing is that the girls miss messing around with him, so they’ve taken to visiting him in there and playing “dogs” too. Laughlin likes the company. And I’m liking Laughlin a lot more now too, minus the peeing.