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Originally Posted by
Beth http:///t/387652/10-puppies/60#post_3427682
Why not set up a little puppy barrier outdoors and take them out there a few times a day? It would probably be helpful to selling them if you can say they are potty trained.
A peek at my day...
I have a gated porch in the back, with a fenced in yard, if they were born in the spring they would be outside. The problem is before they were big enough, they could escape under the porch ...now they are finally big enough to not fit through that little space that streches the entire length of the porch... Today it's in the 50s and winds at 40 mph and gusts up to 70mph ...so we can't just leave them outside (oh how I wish) LOL...No way can we grab 10 puppies to try and potty train, while one is going, another squats...why I end up with 12 piles...
when I only have 10 puppies, I guess a couple are extra good at pooping.... the floor around the area where they poop, I have no towels, it looks like something is leaking, like the roof or a pipe, it's almost ankle deep....I mean I look over the gate and puppies are fast asleep and no poop and no puddles...10 minutes later..... Then I here the sound of puppies growling in play...then I peek in again and OMG we have to grab a mop to swab our way through, and the puppies are so glad to see us that they all come running at once to be greeted, and in that process maul us with icky paws.
I tell you if I was watching it happen to someone else I would be rolling on the floor laughing (but not in that room) . Then comes the battle of the poop....they like paper towels, and they try and grab them as we are trying to clean up. It doesn't work to try and feed them at that point because they too excited to have us there to play with. Today my mother left to get her hair done and go to the Walmart store, she really needed a break....I had to do this alone. After it's all cleaned up, and the paper towels game has ended they are ready to eat. I put two feeding dishes out and the puppies go for it. I can then rinse out the mop and redo the floor area with a little bleach.
After they eat, the poop begins again...after that, a few more puddles and they are finally all peepee and poopooed out. ..... and then the battle of the broom begins, as I try and sweep up the food that is now all over the one side of the kitchen. I pick up the towels for this chore.... I have a trick. It's is only three puppies who like the broom, so I swipe with the broom and put it down away from my pile of food...they run for the broom and I lift it into the air and bring it down for another swipe, and before they can run to the pile of swept up food... I bring it back down in an empty space to let them go for it ...eventually I win the broom game and get the extra puppy food cleaned up. Then I clean the floor once more with a little water and bleach, put down fresh towels and start another load of towels in the wash.
Puppies play a bit, and one by one lay back down to sleep. I have about 4 to 6 blessed hours before we have to do it again. Just enough time to let the ibuprofen work for my backach, and take another shower. The day begins at 3 to 4am and ends at 10:00 to 11:30pm