Outside Adventures

If you have stumbled onto my blog and are from the cedar valley area and find yourself thinking....."GEE! Those cute lil pups sure look familiar!" well.....you're probably right! Back in 2010 Lola and, a much tinier Graham tested out the Potty Patch for KWWL's Does It Really Work Segment. Although the video is no longer online, you can still read the article: http://www.kwwl.com/story/13557915/dirw-potty-patch . While living in the loft downtown the patch worked great for us.

As Seen On TV

Since then, we have purchased a house and are attempting to teach our dogs that carpeted floors are NOT one giant potty patch! Learning to potty outside seems to bring daily outside adventures. Graham seems to enjoy belly flopping into the plants before going potty on them and Lola finds every distraction she can from worms to roll in, people to bark at, and the odd need to sniff every single blade of grass in the lawn. Even the rain doesn't seem to phase these crazy two when it comes to finding things to do outside other then going potty! Our newest distraction is the loads of helicopters the maple tree's have dumped on our lawn. Not sure how great these are for the dogs but according to my dog they are the best thing since peanut-butter!

Other fun things we deal with outside are...

Muddy Paws

Trampling Plants 

Eating Not-Good for Us Plants

And Finding Fun Things To Tangle Up In!

We are slowly learning to go potty outside and not inside. Our main issue is shy Graham who likes to hide when he goes to poop. One nice thing, is he likes to poops in our basement and since putting the potty patch down there he seems to go on that. One tiny paw step at a time I suppose! Our second issue is just getting the dogs to tell us when they need to outside. Every so often Lola will let us know but more often then not it's us needing to just remember to take them outside every now and again.

I enjoy the time outside my fluffy butts and am happy they like it to. One nice thing about being outside all the time is there seems to be something new and interesting they do each time. Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings!