Introducing the real Rhys “Puppytron” Jenkins
I love Rhys “Puppytron” Jenkins very much. That’s why I’m going to devote some space to him here. He’s an 18-month-old mixed breed: chihuahua and miniature pinscher. As such, he weighs less than six pounds, but he has bark and personality enough to take on the big dogs. Literally.
I’ll confess to being one of those dog owners that had no idea what they were getting into. I normally over-research every change in my life, so the fact that our dog is a huge daily challenge definitely took me by surprise.
According to the extra-over-research I’ve done since we got him in August, his personality comes mostly from his min pin genes. In other words, he’s stubborn, defiant, loud, whiny, (next to) impossible to housetrain, and prone to eating himself to death.
None of that bothers me much except the part about him being impossible to housetrain. How did I miss this in my hours and hours of Internet and library research? Seriously. How. Did. I. Miss. This?
Not missing it now. There are, as Jared urges me to call them, “presents” from Rhys quite frequently hiding all over our home. We have been at our wits’ end and tonight we decided to crack down on the bundle of cuteness. Because we cannot put this dog out of our home. He is our responsibility and we love him.
Hopefully, a series of posts will follow on the success of crate training a dog who supposedly can’t unlearn anything. A dog who is terrified of being alone and who will cry for hours and hours until he gets his way. I wish I were exaggerating this part about the hours and hours. Because I’m not. Because I’ve tried to outlast him and it usually ends badly.
Here’s a photo of him sitting quietly, being his cute, loving self. Wish us all luck please.
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