"traveller"
"cshenk" wrote:

If your friends arent used to crates, they *may* object to you asking
them
to bring one even over. I base that because I would have felt that way
before I learned more.

Thanks for your input . We will be going to visit them next week and i
will bring the topic up . they are pretty open about most things so we
will see . its going to be an open adoption .(HEHE) they will see him
whenever they want . This will be interesting for sure .

I anticipate hearing lots of fun from your direction on this adoption! They
are sweet little ones and little care needed. They can for example get most
of the exercise they need just running about insde the house. Sure, they
like walks outside, but they don't have to have a 1 acre yard to run in or
be jogged for 45 mins a day etc.

I do know when we watch smaller dogs for friends (or younger ones than say
2) we need to let them go 'pee' more often in the yard. Our general scale
is about every 2 hours. Easy here as it's fully fenced back yard so we just
let them out for 5 mins or so and set the oven timer to buzz to remind us to
recover them (in nasty weather we wait and bring in right away).

Chester (a Peke we are watching for the weekend, see other thread) isnt much
bigger and so far he's happy to go pee every 2 hours or so while recovering
from being neutered. Chester is 11 months old. He's a known fellow who's
visited before and was taught to 'bark' at the back door if he needs out.
His normal scale is about 4 hours. Overnight though, he can hold for 8. Am
told Chester will bark if the occasional 'oops, gotta go' strikes but that
isnt normally something that happens. Probably like Cash who will wake Don
at 3am every 4-5 weeks with a 'sorry, just gotta go now' vice waiting until
his normal time of 6:30am.