Tuesday 13 January 2009

Keep a low profile - then you won't be sent out into that horrible RAIN!

In my experience most Rhodesian Ridgebacks absolutely HATE rain!

Our first Ridgeback [a rescue called Simba] really hated rain landing on him. If he was out for a walk we could say 'hurry up it's going to rain' and he would look up at the sky, then hurry for home! We just had to hang onto the lead and hope we could keep up.

But since this blog is mainly about potty training - so is this post! One extremely rainy day after a short morning walk the rain had set in for the day. How long do you think a dog can hold on if it really has to? The answer in Simba's case was a VERY, very, very, long time.

We each thought someone else had let him out into the garden for 'a quick pee' but when everyone had been asked it transpired that he had stayed quiet and hidden away in a corner, keeping an extremely low profile, so that no-one would remember he hadn't been out for a pee. He had hung on for hours and hours! Such a character, and such a hater of rain.

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