ron2
Posted : 4/10/2006 6:49:33 PM
There are plenty of reasons not to breed. I know a lady who owns a pure yellow lab with a pedigree that goes back for generations and a canine good citizen rating and she has been spayed and never bred. Let alone a dog such as yours, which may have different colors than a standard weim, most of which I have seen are monochromatic gray. If you are not prepared to breed, then spay.
As for housebreaking, etc., it's just going to take patience and understanding. You are going to have that problem with whatever dog you get. There is no dog born knowing how to housebreak itself. And some dogs are just too energetic to leave in the house for too long. Ours is a good example. When we first got him at 1 year and 2 months, we would keep him in the house. One day, he found a plastic ink bottle that looked like a chew bone and he got ink on the carpet and buried the remains of his kill in my qult. We adapted. He became a dog who is out in the yard if we are gone for more than an hour. But now way would we have thought of getting rid of him. That incident was my mistake and I take full responsibility and one day, I will replace the carpet myself.
Good luck to you whatever you do. And as much patience as you expect from us, you must give in return. Several people, including Glenda are actively involved in the rescue of dogs that had to be re-home "due to unavoidable circumstances" which translates into people who really shouldn't have gotten a dog in the first place, 9 times out of 10. Possibly, you are the 1 in 10 exception. For example, I can understand a dog in rescue because its owner just died. That's unavoidable. Otherwise, more people should really think long and hard before getting a pet.
For me, it is a lifelong obligation. Once I take in a pet, I am prepared to care for it for the rest of its life, period, paragraph, new book. Most people here are that way and that's why they reacted the way they did to you sketchy original info. Now that you have given more, they understand you better.