Some of you may remember that I posted a few weeks ago, about the difficulties we were having when we take Honey to my parents house (they believe in different, more severe training methods). We decided not to take Honey back for a few weeks and took her there yesterday again for the first time. We had made our feelings well known and things have settled down.
Despite my fathers old fashioned ideas about dog training, he adores Honey and was very keen to take her a walk. She has never been walked by a stranger so I was a little worried, but gave in. I thought it would help both of them. I waited anxiously the whole time they were out (it was as bad as the first time you let them take your children out)!.
Dad returned and I enquired as to how they got on. He told me that Honey had been a very, very naughty dog - but he was laughing at the time. Apparently he spent a long time with her in the garden before leaving - saying "toilet" - she does respond to this command. She ofcourse did not go. He had her in the park where there was ample opportunity to go - she did not go!.
He decided to walk the long way home - he had to walk along a road with a few shops, where it is very busy with lots of people around. Right in the middle of the busy area, she sat down and did a pooh - of course my dad had forgotten to take a bag to lift it up! She very rarely goes outside her own garden.
Now I am not in favour of dog owners not clearing up their dog mess, and I have been known on at least one occasion where Honey has done this and I have forgotten to take a bag, to drive back and clean it up. However I did think it was a touch of poetic justice, as he had been so hard on her the last time we visited. I wonder if Honey remembered this too............!
