Hi everyone!
I wanted to share some picture of Dug and a little update. I brought home a foster dogs for a few days, thankfully she was adopted yesterday and hopefully she will go on to be as loved and spoiled as our Goldens are. I could tell that Dug enjoyed having her here, his own little pup to play with, she was just four months old and the sweetest little thing! I brought home a male foster dog a couple of months ago and Dug (who has been fully potty trained from very early on) urinated twice on the floor, then the foster dog urinated and it just wasn't going great......neither dog was submissive to the other, so the dog left to go to another foster after just a day! Dug won't start anything, but he won't back down either. So given this past experience I was a little anxious to bring another foster home, but I thought if I got a girl it may make a difference. The first evening that she was here, Dug urinated on the floor, then the following day he lifted his leg (for the first time) and urinated on the puppy pen I had her in, I took him outside and he relived himself out there too, came back inside and he marked on a blanket inside the puppy pen (it was open). After all that, everything was fine, no more marking or peeing, thank God. I wonder if he will be like this with every new dog that enters our home. Up until the first foster dog, no other dog had ever been in our house since we got Dug. Also, surprisingly he was not destructive as a puppy, but in the last few weeks he has destroyed some small items. In one day he chewed up a pen, the overhead fan remote, a bobbin of thread, a travel size bottle of shower gel, which he climbed inside the tub to get when I was upstairs. The overhead fan remote still worked although it looked dreadful, we were using it until we went out to get another, and he took it and finished it off about a week later. Today he chewed up two more travel size toiletry bottles, leaving shampoo and conditioner on the rug. Have any of you guys had any similar issues? I'm not too concerned about his destroying the small items, but the marking does bother me. I figured that because it's his "den" that he would not mark. His submissive peeing when we return home has stopped, but we also don't greet him excitedly now, we just give him a less enthusiastic greeting, initially. Even with his recent antics, he is still adored and very much appreciated........he's our pride and joy! How much do your Goldens weigh now? Dug is 82 lbs! He is scheduled to be neutered at the beginning of November.