Reading all this makes me all anticipatory (or not) about picking Maike up tomorrow - we'll see how it works out, thanks to COL and colleagues with dogs I've had a lot of advice already.
Mind you, she can hardly be worse than Fumble the nasty cat, who not only can't handle the litterbox propery but also rubbed her poo-covered bum (probably itchy

) against my brand new suede hiking boots. It cleared off ok but I could've turned HER into boots.
