As I am now out of the house for 5 days a week I thought that the best thing for Ellie was doggie daycare, i.e. I pay for someone to have her in their home where she has company all day and is walked twice.
Now for those of you that know us, you will know that Ellie has a sock eating habit. This has landed her in the vets twice so far and as such my home is now a carefully controlled sock free zone (they are always behind closed doors). Now I did tell the dog daycare this before she went and had to tell them again, in no uncertain terms, when I found pooped out socks on the garden.
Anyway to cut a very long story short Ellie's sock eating habit finally ended in surgery last Wednesday night when the vet removed two socks from her small intestine. Neither of these socks were mine. So as you can imagine - end of day care with that person.
So my dilema is this, do I risk a different daycare in a home environment or do I simply have a dog walker come to my house twice a day. At least in my own house I can control the enviroment. However, that is not what I want as I would much rather Ellie has company all day
Two other things, firstly am I asking too much to expect someone to ensure she can't get her paws on socks in a home environment? To be fair Ellie is a determined and clever girl. I have caught her raiding my wash basket before now and ever since it has had to live inside my fitted wardrobes. You really do have to be on the ball to keep her away from them.
Also perhaps more importantly, can anyone think of a way I can train her out of this. She will bring me things and give me things no problem, but socks for some reason are a different matter - she will even swallow them if you are in a different room to her. I am really stumped by this one and deeply concerned and distressed about the whole thing. I just feel that the harder I try to do what I think is best for her the more it back fires on me.
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