All the girls in our family have birthdays in February, including our cocker spaniel, Lilly Anne. We got Lilly three years ago as a pup from my brother and his wife. She has been a really good pet. As a puppy she stayed inside the house, but moved outside once she got old enough. On occasion we tried to teach her to be an inside dog.....even bought her some doggy diapers. The problem with cocker spaniels is that when they get excited they pee. So, every time the kids would convince me to let her come in, the first thing she would do is pee on the floor!! It was a vicious cycle, because then I would just send her back out! Well, this winter it has been super cold, so we started letting her come inside. She lives in our fenced-in backyard and her kennel is up on our covered porch. So, I got the bright idea that if I was going to let her inside I would immediately walk her out the front door and let her pee, so that she wouldn't pee on the floor. It worked, lucky for her!! So, this winter she has officially become an inside dog. She barks at the front door when she needs to go out and do her business and then immediatley comes back in. On a few pretty days recently I have let her out in the backyard for some fresh air. The minute I let her in she runs to the front door to go outside and pee. Isn't that funny? She is outside, hanging out in the grass in the backyard, put she holds her pee for however long I leave her out there and waits to pee in the front yard!! Anyway, she is so sweet and we have really gotten used to her being inside with us. She even sleeps in her kennel in Tori's bedroom.
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| Lilly when she was a puppy |
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| This is Lilly and Tori in 2008, the day that we got her. She was a few weeks old. |
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Here she is a little older. She was about to go into the pet store to get a haircut.
You can tell that she needed it......she was really bushy! |
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| This is her now (with Tori). |
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A few weeks ago when it snowed, she would look at the front window and bark at our snowgirl.
She barked at that "thief" in the front yard until it melted. You'd think after awhile she'd give up the alarm! |
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| She's a trickster!! Ha! Please excuse Superman in the background. |
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| Our Sweet Lilly Anne.....HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY GIRL!! |
