[pyrnet] Family jewels

[Rhonda Collins <rhonda@castlepublishing.com>]

> Well, he may not completely stop marking behavior, but it won't get
> any
> worse if he gets neutered. But, Bo was neutered at 9 1/2 years and has
> not
> marked since. IMO, men not wanting male dogs neutered (funny how they
> have
> no problems with spaying a bitch) just are not as secure as far as their
> own
> manhood. (at least this is what I tell those men who balk at it
> <G>) Most of
> the time, they decide to neuter the dog, even if only to change my
> opinion
> of them. <VBG> But why should they care? Anyway, whatever works. In
> the
> absence of neutering, try this. Get a 10 or 12 foot leash, and tie the
> dog
> to your waist. Absolutley NO unsupervised time in the house. When hubby
> gets
> home, since he's the one that won't neuter the dog, he gets to wear
> the
> leash around his waist. Perhaps this might change his mind?
> <RBEG>

After yet another knock-down-drag-out fight over Newman's balls last
night, hubby is still the winner. No amount of logic or coercion works. I
told him that HE was going to have to watch the dog and tie him to the
leash around hi waist, and he just says, "Whatever it takes."
Sure. But =I= know who will end up babyitting him most of the time...ME.
Right NOW is the time when I wish for that shock collar with the button.
Wih ours hadn't died.


Say fine you will not take Newman and have him
neutered, but your husband must go to
> the local pound and hospice the
> unwanteds when the are put down.  Let me
> assure the first batch of unwanted kittens, or puppies will tear the
> heart
> out of any normal human.  Then you can remind him, that if the
> owners of the
> parents of those babies had not had Walt Disney anthropomorphic
> associations
> with their pets, then he would not have had to hold those babies as
> they
> died.

My husband is one of those types of people that are impossible to sway
once they've made up their mind. They are always "right", even
when they're wrong. Getting him to the pound to get him to do this would
be like dragging a mule someplace it didn't want to go.

I'm doomed...doomed...DOOMED............